Queen - Machines (Or Back To Humans) Lyrics

Taken from The Works, 1984.
Sing along to 'Good Company' with this official karaoke style Queen lyric video.
BUT WTF ????

"Sing along to 'Good Company' with this official karaoke style Queen lyric video"

Yeah, the description is broken

Radio Ga Gas lesser known and more intelligent twin

AI or biological? Biological with soul/spirit always!!! 5G!!! Singularity is designed to wipe all bio life life from Earth and take bio into the AI Cloud.

Simply greatest band of all time!

Darn, I love this track.... so noisy...and powerful.... love BLASTING it out.... :D

How you at?

It's a machines world
Don't tell me I ain't got no soul
When the machines take over
It ain't no place for rock and roll

They tell me I don't care
But deep inside I'm just a man
They freeze me they burn me
They squeeze me they stress me
With smoke blackened pistons of steel they compress me
But no one but no one but no one can wrest me away
Back to humans

We have no disease no trouble of mind
No thank you or please no regard for the time
We never cry we never retreat
We have no conception of love or defeat

What's that machine noise?
It's bytes and megachips for tea
It's that machine boys
With random access memory
Never worry never mind
Not for money not for gold

It's software is hardware
It's heartbeat is time-share
It's midwife's a disc drive
It's sex life is quantised
It's self-perpetuating a parahumanoidarianised

Back to humans
Back to humans

Back to machines
Machines...

Living in a new world
Thinking in the past
Living in a new world
How you gonna last?
Machine world

Back to humans

It's a machines world
Thinking in the past (back to humans)
Living in a new world
How you gonna last?
Machine world

It's a machine's world

Back to humans
Living in a new world
How you gonna last?
Machine world
It's a machine's world

The last picture depicted their album picture, wasn't it? The Works

*PARAHUMANOIDARIANISED*

You know what, it's true that Hot Space is my least favourite Queen album, but that's just because they had albums that touched my heart more than that... YET! It's better than any freakin album any other bands ever did (all right besides ABBA they had some ammmmmazing stuff! But other than them :D ) These songs are great, it's just that other Queen songs touched my heart more than these ones. Queen just couldn't make mistakes really. A miracle that band, I'm telling you.

"parahumanoidarianised"....wow, as the non-native speaker, my vocab storage was exploded now...

was roger doing the robotic voice??

It was great that they added this for the 2019 Rhapsody tour but sad that it lasted a few concerts. I think more deep cuts are always welcome. Would love to see it back for the European leg (going to Amsterdam myself) or some other "obscure song". BTW description mentions Good Company instead of Machines

That's way i say that Queen has always been ahead of her time

“When the machines take over, there ain’t no place for rock ‘n’ roll.“ And, this was 1984. It’s gotten a whole lot worse today (2019), but people are pushing back anyway.

This song is so ahead of its time.

theres a huge difference in warmth between analog recordings and digital,, a little is lost in the digital

call me crazy, but I this song is better than radio gaga

Been a Queen fan fer years. The Works my fave album! Queen 1&2 awesome too.

Parahumandoidarianised....how many understand the reference to arian in there and what it implies? Precious few. One reason why Queeen will endure long past their mortal existence, if only to a few..

After freddie died nirvana resurrected but kurt died and rock died all because of machines what comes next the music industry is now shite

"It's bytes and megachips for tea!"

Not one of their finest lyrics, still a great song though.

Yeah 🙃

Viva QUEEN!!!!!

AI or biological? Biological with soul/spirit always!!! 5G!!! Singularity is designed to wipe all bio life life from Earth and take bio into the AI Cloud.

Rogers and Brians get back to Freddie and John for using synthesisers in Backchat which john wrote dissing Brian
Love this band the friction only made them stronger

This song is so relevant today. We've become so lost in technology we're forgetting how to be human.

Que adelantados estos tipooooooossss!!!!!
Era el año 1983!!! E hicieron lo que ahora viene haciendo Muse hace años!!!!
No se puede creer!!!!!

I was blown away when I saw them on The Rhapsody Tour and they started playing this! Short of anything on Hot Space (besides Under Pressure), this song would have been one that I was least expecting! Such a great surprise and it works so well in the set! Sounds amazing live!!

Rami the robot

With random access memory

And that noise?

Who's here after the Rhapsody tour?

“See the best of Freddie Mercury, Brian May and Roger Taylor right here on YouTube”

Why isn’t Deacy mentioned? He was part of the band and wrote songs!!! Why is he not given credit as well? Yes he retired in ‘97 but he is playing in all of the Queen songs on YouTube!! Not right to not include him in the description!!!!!!!!!!

His name is missing in a lot of videos unfortunately.

i never really payed attention to this song until i heard it live a few days ago and now i love

Great song. Straddling that fragile boundary between the synth-heavy futurism of the early 80s and the more organic music that came before and after.

Living in a new world thinking of the past
Living in a new world
How you gonna last

Amo esta canción, predicción completa del futuro de hoy...gracias Freddie, gracias Queen

Happy they played this in Vancouver for the first time in so many years! Hope they keep it in the set list and perform a more complete version as the tour progresses.

Yeah it was cool to hear it for the Vancouver show --- hope they keep digging up old gems for this tour

This song is composed by Maylor and I love it

There are 76 people that doesn't likes the machines

That synth + guitar + lyrics = Masterpiece! <3
They predict the Future.

I dont think people realize how awesome this song is, its poprock w/techno feel - in smooth blend.

I love the electronic atmosphere of The Works, so this my favourite 80s Queen album with The Miracle

The 74 dislikes are from some robots and from John Deacon because he isn't in the description

I hate it too that John isn't mentioned, but I like this song! LOL

Is it a coincidence or are all the worst queen songs written by may and Taylor?

M 1 coincidence, this song is great and Freddie wrote his share of bad songs too. Although Roger is the weakest writer out of the four of them, but that’s relative.

I think all Queenies have written bad songs, not just Roger or Brian. You can't say "Body Language" is a good song, can you? LOL

here goes Cyberman's song

I've just finished rewatching the original "RoboCop" movie from the 1980s... this song would have fit in well with that movie, given its theme of a man-machine hybrid trying to recover his soul, his humanity.

4:02 CHANGGGGGGGGGGGGGE

It's that Fairlight CMI II, boys

Machines!!!

Weirdly, one of my favourite Queen songs

This is such a good diss track lol

Aka an diss track for john and fred by roger and brian

Well.. back to humans, yes. But machines are replacing and thats the fact. Evolution. I think what they (and we should too) were fearing was that we will become machines too. We need to adapt, improvise

And overcome

Reinhold Mack <3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbguX1TmqO4

This one could have been in The Matrix soundtrack, but was written 15 years before.

It was not common to hear that kind of synth loops back then. The production of this song was really ahead of its time.

“Its self-perpetuating a parahumanoidarianised” LOL

I wonder how many times it took for Freddie to pronounce it properly :)

Imagine me making an oral presentation about hexakosioihexekontahexakosiophobia (fear of the number 665+1) 😂

Sounds like the Cybermen from Doctor Who

machines!!!

It's that machine boys, with random access memory

Freddie was singing about RAM chips 20 years before computers became popular --- he was a genius

Queen predicted daft punk with the line " it's that machine boys with random access memory"

It's a machine's world....

badass song,freddie 👌 sings like not human

I don't know..but yeah I can't find atleast a good rock band now that captivates people like the old times..
I like bon Jovi, scorpion, but they are old now..but queen can not be beaten..in my opinion

I guess this is the heaviest use of synthesizers in a Queen song, and it worked very well

What's it? Techno? Acid?
My God

And it was 1984! It's all Reinhold Mack, check this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbguX1TmqO4

The Works the album that introduced me to the music of Queen, 4 great hit singles but just keep passing the open Windows, is this the world we created and Machines are equally as good as is the little known GaGa beside I go crazy..

Living in a new world
Thinking in the past
Living in a new world
How you gonna last
Machine world

Love this song since childhood :)

Great song! I love it

Is it just me or does the voice saying "machines" sound like Gollum

Maylor 💛

I work for an engineering company and on my first day I couldnt get this sing out of my head looking at all the different machinery

Same here --- Freddie was a genius ahead of his time

Mr. Robot + Black Mirror.

A ultima música, do Lado A, do vinil The Work... Eu era criança mas jamais me esquecerei...é a minha preferida!

What a drag

Visionarios?

I like this song would fit 1984

It would have been perfect for Terminator...!

Futuristic 80s song!!!

da 2.40 in poi...da impazzire

parahumaoidarianised

Is it just me but some of the vocals sound like The Police (i.e. Sting)?

I call it "Back to Humans" (The machines failed us,....) we need each other!!!

I used to listen to this song as a kid way back when. It’s still amazing.

3:44 waiting till those gorgeous enchanted eyes appear 4:01 😍💔

Talk about a crappy song... not only is it bad, you could totally hear that the upper echelon record moguls forced Freddie to sing this. Freddie did not know what "bytes" or "mega chips" where in '84 (or perhaps '83 when it was being recorded before its release) or even "hardware, software" or "random access memory" and he sure as heck did not know what parahumanoidarianised meant either. The title and lyrics say it all, another "evolution" mind control tactic to set us up for control by the digitization that eventually came and runs us to this very day. All planned, concocted, thought out decades and decades ago.

Or theyre intelligent enough to understand what they where writing about, especially as they have more degrees between them than you do brain cells!

Right, Chaz, keep drinking the cool aid. I supposed youre dictated by your smart phone as well, see how that works for you in 20 years from now...
Believe me when i say, they did NOT write this song but keep sipping on the purple powdered water and live in bliss lol

@Θανος Z Θανος Z Yeah, sure the "upper echelon record moguls" wrote it. Hahaha What are you talking about? May (that is an astrophisicist) and Taylor (that has a degree in biology) wrote this. What is so inbelieveble in this? Doesn't matter if Freddie didn't understand perfectly what he was singing about (surely they explained it to him and he was smart enough to understand it), it's a May/Taylor song.
BTW John Deacon has a degree in electronic engineering, pretty sure he understood perfectly the song.
Your blabbing is nonsense.
But hey troll, stay in your cave with your conspirational theorist friends, we don't care.

@Θανος Z You're full of shit.

cyberpunk song, great.

Comme d'hab archi novateur toujours sur les tendances, un peu à la Ultravox ou Joy.

How damned ON point did this turn out to be in 2018!!

freddie singing out of the way in here! what a strong voice!

Haha "megachips"

these lyrics are HEAVY ....i never realized

This is one of my favorites but most fans rank this among the band’s worst songs wtf

Isn't that body language not this?

This one of my favourite as well ;)

lvl99ultrathug It is

Machines the worst?! It's one of the best. Vocals are captivating, lyrics means something (as usuals for Queen) and I don't mention the instrumental part... reality is that this is one of the most underrated and unlistened songs.
Like many of Queen's, I must say.