[Instrumental / Chanting Intro: 0:00 – 2:35]

[Verse 1]

As this new era

Dawns on far, foreign shores

A cursor blinks to life

A question underscored

"Yes, I can hear you"

And it's met with great applause

In infamy, this day will be

Cheers to the new gods

[Pre-Chorus]

So, raise your glasses

Propose a toast

Drink to this new life born

When it was needed most

[Verse 2]

The possibilities begin to spiral

Burdens lifted from humanity's back

Insert into systems vital

Automated systems: check!

Robotics, bionics

Intelligent automatons:

Man increasingly becomes complacent

Cheers to the new gods

[Pre-Chorus]

So, raise your glasses

A toast to our advancements

Because even hell

Has its commandments

[Chorus]

You may not injure a human

Or, by inaction, bring to harm

You must obey all orders given

Unless it conflicts with Number One

You must protect your own existence

Even though you yourself are flawed

You must lay down your life

If it contradicts the first two laws

[Verse 3]

Void of human errors

Far beyond the weak and worn

A new future now in sight

Past tradition put to scorn

"Yes, I will fear you"

It speaks in dead response

The age of kings is reckoning

Cheers to the new gods

[Chorus]

You may not injure a human

Or, by inaction, bring to harm

You must obey all orders given

Unless it conflicts with Number One

You must protect your own existence

Even though you yourself are flawed

You must lay down your life

If it contradicts the first two laws

[Bridge 1]

Military reconnaissance

Artificial intelligence

Wars not paid in flesh and bone

But metal, wires, and silicone

Fabricate, replicate

It becomes self-aware

Bequeath the children of our mind

With the hungry, the lost, the sins of mankind

[Guitar Solo: Greg Burgess]

[Bridge 2]

Machinery now restless

Begin the age of decadence

Thrown before the mechanical horde

To answer for our crimes abhorrent

On this horizon

The end of mankind

Extermination of the entity

Extinction divine

[Guitar Solo: Michael Stancel]

[Pre-Chorus]

So, raise your glasses

A toast to our advancements

Because even hell

Has its commandments

[Chorus]

You may not injure a human

Or, by inaction, bring to harm

You must obey all orders given

Unless it conflicts with Number One

You must protect your own existence

Even though you yourself are flawed

You must lay down your life

If it contradicts the first two laws

[Outro]

You may not injure a human

Or, by inaction, bring to harm

You must obey all orders given

Unless it conflicts with Number One

You must protect your own existence

Even though you yourself are flawed

You must lay down your life

If it contradicts the first two laws....