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Welcome To The Machine

This version of Welcome To The Machine was released by Pink Floyd in 1975.

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Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.
Where have you been? It’s alright we know where you’ve been.
You’ve been in the pipeline, filling in time,
provided with toys and Scouting for Boys.
You bought a guitar to punish your ma,
And you didn’t like school, and you know you’re nobody’s fool,
So welcome to the machine.
Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.
What did you dream? It’s alright we told you what to dream.
You dreamed of a big star, he played a mean guitar,
He always ate in the Steak Bar. He loved to drive in his Jaguar.
So welcome to the machine.

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The lyrics for Welcome To The Machine are defined as the words making up the song released by Pink Floyd in 1975. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Welcome To The Machine have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Pink Floyd and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Welcome To The Machine by Pink Floyd if you think through it. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Welcome To The Machine" means the words set to the music of Welcome To The Machine, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Pink Floyd. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Welcome To The Machine and the lyrics to Welcome To The Machine are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Pink Floyd who came here looking just for the lyrics to Welcome To The Machine, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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