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When you look down the street, what do you see?The street is overflowing with a lot of machinesNow I don't mean the buses, the trucks or carsI'm talking about the peopleYeah, you know who they areI'm a machine, you're a machineEverybody that you knowYou know, they are machinesTo keep your engine running you need energyFor your high-powered, revved-up body machineYour high-powered, revved-up body machineNow I'd be a fool, if I said that the fuel thatWe needed to burn was gasolineBecause the fuel we use is the stuff called foodAnd it puts out the power for our machineYou make a stop at the filling station"Fill 'er up! One chicken sandwich to go!"As you start to chewYour body does it, all systems go!Now that sandwich contains some very important kinds of food energy for your body. The chicken gives you protein; bread, carbohydrates; mayonnaise, fat; and the lettuce has vitamins, plus cellulose (or roughage). Together these things help keep your body machine running smoothly.First the saliva, kind of like a driver"Move to the rear of the mouth!"SongtexteBut what it's doingAlong with teeth chewingIs taking food and breaking it downDown to the stomachThe food is pushed, the esophagus does its stuff (gulp, gulp)And the stomach startsLook at those moving partsAs the body machine churns upGastric juices operate on proteinsFats and carbohydratesIn the stomach they do what they doThey take out nutrition and use it for youAnd the cellulose, in those leaves you knowWill control the traffic flowHelps the food to move along so the good stays inAnd the bad gets goingI'm a machine, you're a machineEverybody that you knowYou know, they are machinesTo keep your engine running you need energyFor your high-powered, revved-up body machineYour high-powered, revved-up body machineThen the small intestine does most of your digestingBy sending all the nutrientsIn through the villiWhich look a little sillyBut act as little ventsThe bloodstream passes; the nutrients it catchesAnd takes them to the cells you seeYou use what it deliversAnd store some in the liverFor future energyI'm a machine, you're a machineEverybody that you knowYou know, they are machinesTo keep your engine running you need energyFor your high-powered, revved-up body machineYour high-powered, revved-up body machineYour high-powered, revved-up body machineHigh-powered, revved-up, complicated tune-upFascinating body machineTake care of that machineYou got such a great model there, honey!Give it the right fuelHigh protein, low calorieTake it out for a spin every day! Aus Songtexte Mania