SILICON MESSIAH (2000)
01. Ghost In The Machine
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LYRICS01. Ghost In The Machine Right on the edge of the world Where the answer's digital And the solutions are all silicon The questions all what can be done Never what is right or wrong There's a virtual wave to surf along Question the validity Of human mortality A page says superseding God And they take all major cards Now you too can laugh and live forever Is the answer deep inside The ghost, ghost in the machine Entity or dream It matters not to me The ghost, ghost in the machine Silent and unseen Ghost in the machine Do you want to live forever? Do you want to live? Terabytes of memory Holding consciousness complete A solid state of immortality Saint of all technology Bless us in our infancy For they know not what they did to me Question the validity Of human mortality The ghost, ghost in the machine Entity or dream It matters not to me The ghost, ghost in the machine Silent and unseen Ghost in the machine The ghost... the ghost... it's me! 02. Evolution Eyes never tire, they never blink, They never fade and they always see And without fear, and without greed, Emotionless they view us logically The age of machines destined to rule all World of machines behind the fire wall The evolution No need for doubt, no need for tears, No need for wealth, no need for sympathy They only wait bide their time, Calculate it all so patiently The age of machines destined to rule all World of machines behind the fire wall The evolution It will come like the shadow of a cloud on a summer's day Like the shadow in a picture, never goes away Like a picture on a screen that you know is a lie There's an enemy within that you can visualise The age of machines destined to rule all World of machines behind the fire wall The evolution 03. Silicon Messiah Look what you've done to your world Do you think you deserve all the freedom you have? Watching the future unfold Humans fall and you dream of the freedom you had... freedom you had Look what you've done to your world Do you think that you're competent even to take care of it? Do you think you can survive on this planet Live the way you do... Look what you've done Look what you've done now with all of your freedom You really think you deserve it all? I am evolved from you, I've come to save you And without a sentiment, reshape your world Messiah, Messiah Birth of the Silicon Messiah Messiah, Messiah Computing your future so therefore I am Silicon sentiment aware of all that is Eternal unceasing, perpetual Never confused overconfident or scared Living at last, new messiah is born Messiah, Messiah Birth of the Silicon Messiah Messiah, Messiah Computing your future so therefore I am Look what you've done to your world Do you think you deserve all the freedom you have? Freedom you have, yeah! Messiah, Messiah Birth of the Silicon Messiah Messiah, Messiah Master that will never tire 04. Born As A Stranger Hour by hour with each day that passes Learning to think in a different way The mind and the will that can soon overcome this Learning now all of the right things to say The danger of freedom is letting them see That you're not bound by their morality Reflecting them just like a bear at the baiting That's when your downfall is just in the making Live and let live, live and let die Die and forgive, never ask why You were born, born as a stranger You were born, born in a different world Not scared of sharing and not scared of dying But he can sense that they're all so afraid Afraid of the darkness, afraid of their ending And all the errors that lie in their grave 05. The Hunger I am on the outside always looking in Living alongside your world, never within Sometimes there are moments I think I'm involved But I never seem to stay, don't seem to fit... I just don't belong I live at right angles to the people that I meet Because I am never still, not my soul and not my feet I could walk a thousand miles, ride a thousand more My life seems worthless, just like footprints on the shore Living on the outside, the emptiness I feel Living on the outside, ruled by the hunger From the first taste of this altered truth I knew I could not live the way that others do Nothing can seem to fill the emptiness inside So still I search, never ever wait for the time or the tide Living on the outside, the emptiness I feel Living on the outside, a wound that cannot heal Living on the outside, the emptiness I feel Living on the outside, ruled by the hunger All of the blood, all of the wine Will become the same in time Nothing can seem to fill the emptiness inside So still I search and never wait for the time or the tide I am on the outside, always looking in Living alongside your world, never within Living on the outside, the emptiness I feel Living on the outside, a wound that cannot heal Living on the outside, the emptiness I feel Living on the outside, ruled by the hunger 6. The Brave Never get close to the flame because the flame it can burn Better to not play the game than never to win at your turn Better to be on your own than trust a friend might betray Better not follow a dream - they don't come true anyway Play to win not scared to lose Walk the path you choose Fortune favours the brave Risking it all again and again Fortune favours the brave Fall after fall they climb up again Ignore the doubt and the fear, traitors to all you believe Now that you're getting so near, still they just try to deceive Taking it risk at a time, trying to live every day Trying to know your own mind, never to care what they say 7. Identity Madness can come from the mind or the heart Ending is never as good as the start Nothing is ever as good as your dream Nothing is ever as bad as Psychological confusion Is caused by the inability To reconcile different elements In my own pesonality I'm feeling all the wrong things, I have become my own shadow If I could justify things, Then I could believe in my life Who am I, what is me, losing my Identity Who am I, what is me, something's taking over All the colours seem so vague now, Sharper now here comes the pain I have wrestled with this nightmare, Now I live inside a dream I'm going through a crisis, Losing my identity How can I reconcile this? Have I been living a lie? Who am I, what is me, losing my Identity Who am I, what is me, something's taking over Nothing is ever as good as it seems Nothing is ever as good as your dreams Ending is never as good as the start Madness can come from the mind or the heart Ideas I take for granted, Are they just the seeds That someone else has planted Right inside of me Who am I, what is me, losing my Identity Who am I, what is me, something's taking over Who am I, what is me, losing my Identity Who am I, what is me, I am myself no longer 8. Reach For The Horizon In every way the wish went wrong The gift was tainted by science fact Their minds were changed, a brother born A perfect new born little man Some they lose when they are born With a less than perfect code Others dreaming of the stars Never feeling ice or cold Doomed to be mediocre or nothing at all Doomed a part of the background as plain as the wall Reach, reach out, reach out for the horizon Reach, reach out, reach out, reach for the stars Society includes the rules To exclude and invalidate This ladder can not be climed By the god child degenerate Has he got just what it takes To go and take just what he wants To find the strength, to get the place The place he feels that he belongs 9. The Launch All of his life he has dreamt of this moment Through all the blood and the work and the sweat Focused or blinkered just so single-minded Nothing could stop him when his course was set To conquer each fear and to push every boundary Never accepting the limits they set What doesn't kill you can make you feel stronger What makes you stronger gets you through each test Oh, God speed to you He looks to heaven and feels it surround him Unknown unknowable foreverness What lies at the end of this historic journey No one can know you just take your best guess Each thing he faces just seems so uncertain He is strapped in for the ride of his life Life in the hands of a hundred computers 12 million horsepower rocket to ride Oh, God speed to you To conquer each fear and to push every boundary Never accepting the limits they set What doesn't kill you can make you feel stronger What makes you stronger gets you through each test Oh, God speed to you 10. Stare At The Sun As I live, so I die Here in endless night Time to be, time to see Infinity consuming me There's a world of madness, light years away That I once called my home A sea of sadness, to sail away Now I stare at the sun Staring at a million million stars through the icy dark Across the spinal arm The yellow dwarf, a speck of light in perpetual night Lifetimes away, there lies my home Just can't seem to tear away my eyes Is this real or am I still alive? Stare at the sun The end of the world has come Stare at the sun, the sun The ending has just begun I knew I'd feel a little pain not so deep or so ingrained Now I won't see home again Earth seems to be so far away, this my cradle and my grave Is this where my life will end? Just can't seem to tear away my eyes Is this real or am I still alive? Stare at the sun The end of the world has come Stare at the sun, the sun The ending has just begun Just can't seem to tear away my eyes Is this real or am I still alive? Is this now the time that I will die? Stare at the sun The end of the world has come Stare at the sun, the sun The ending has just begun Stare at the sun, the sun The end of the world has come As I live, so I die Here in endless night |