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Moby
Play
Machete

TRACK

Machete

Release date: 17th May 1999

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About This Track

'Machete' by Moby is a 1999 track from the album 'Play'. The lyrics move through a bleak first-person account of feeling freezing and close to death, describing the act of removing needles and placing them in the open, then watching a “cold” force take over. The voice feels trapped in its own momentum, repeatedly emphasising a vanishing point, before shifting to an attempt at endurance, holding itself up until tomorrow brings collapse.

"Machete" is a track by Moby, from the album Play, released 17th May 1999. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about Moby.

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Moby

Moby

Lyrics

Machete

[Verse 1]

Yesterday, I felt so cold, I felt like I could die

Took the needles from my arms and put them to the sky

Watched the cold come take me, pull me down like I did know

I saw it gone, I saw it gone, I saw it gone, I saw it gone

[Verse 2]

Hold myself up 'til tomorrow holds me down again

Feel the darkness coming, oversee how it begins

Come with me into the willow garden out tonight

Feel the darkness come, my moon will touch you with its light

[Interlude]

eybdoog yas ot evah I

[Verse 3]

Help me life was over love I want to have you in my sight

Seeing I was overlooked, I had you in my hand

Like a lid of no survivors, not that I don't mind

Help me, broken baby, help me break you with my mind

[Outro]

With my mind

With my mind

With my mind

With my mind

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Track details

From Play

1999

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Album

Release year

1999

—Everloving
—The Sky Is Broken
—Inside
—Rushing
—If Things Were Perfect
—Machete
—Guitar Flute & String
—Find My Baby
—My Weakness
—Down Slow
—Why Does My Heart Feel so Bad?
4:24
—South Side - Mono Version
3:49
—Natural Blues
4:14
—7
—Porcelain
3:59
—Honey
3:29

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