Another Design

By Arecee

On Beating a Dead Horse

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*The final annihilation of the lifeform known as man...let the attack begin*

I wanna haven filled with pavement

And a gravestone without a statement

Other then we've been taken

Our own mistakes have fueled this place

At a pace so fast we took our own race

The interface that was laced from a previous design

Nevermind that it's from our own kind

Defined by machines and mechanics

Zeros and ones program organics

Romantic questions that suggest like a girl undressing

*Digressing*

We want progression

There's a section of my head that's infected with Direction

Which only moves forward and hates past lessons

Data at our fingertips and too much to reference

The essence of this place is cold and irreverent

You can't keep it separate but I'm looking for some leverage

Before gasoline replaces water as a beverage

Huddled in the system, no need to worry

Money is essential so get your heart dirty

We're extensions of utensils created in our image

Invented by our own kind to push us to our limits

Minutes turn to seconds and break in other sections

Lapse much faster, closer to rejection

I wanna find perfection, specific with directions

A place uninfected by the ethics of progression

I walk around surroundings compounded artificial

Work my eight hours until they sound the whistle

If we flatten out the forests and build a mass of missiles

We could further evolution and have a field of thistles

My head full of wishes, cookbook type dishes

Keep 'em to myself though, respect for the misses

Recipes delicious and get quite vicious

We call it healthy competition in big business

Don't run with scissors, that's what the teacher taught me

But other kids didn't listen and ain't stopping

Inventions gotten sloppy killing us softly

Fulfill your every dream or maybe clone a copy

Jane told me once nothing's shocking

But Jane had addictions and had gotten cocky

If they wasn't chopping all the wood then I might be knocking

But for now fill your pockets

No match for sheet metal, jagged unsettle

If my flesh were on this level then I'd redefine trouble

If you search through the rubble you'll find it ain't subtle

In the last ten years the progression doubled

I get a clearer type reflection in steel then in puddles

And the breaks squeals and screams strip natures mumbles

We could funnel out the evil in this concrete jungle

But man can't be humbled until machines wanna rumble

*I have lead the entire human race to ruin*

What's sicker, how the screen flickers

Or the fact that it tricks us to see a picture

There's a mixture of street lights amid bigger stars

And the cars keep moving like the stock market ticker

So who's the savior or who do you favor

Miss motherboard or miss mother nature

The vapor from this paper done changed our behavior

Makin' acres of skyscrapers, acres of skyscrapers

*World is man made, can't understand*

How these destructive type tools got put in out hands

We got plans to advance things and take for granted

Until we're left stranded or abandon ship

What's the chance that Uncle Sam has clean hands

Dancin' with name brands and corporate demands

Clammy in my hands thinkin' how we take for granted

*The world is man made* bein' stripped of the organic

See if the water's too cold then they heat it in the city

A freezing blueprint that was bent and it's fitting

Ridding our ingestion and spitting out the pieces

Cruel interpretation created by our species

Beats more mechanical, a sequenced animal

Dismantled into numbers and other midi samples

Opposition is a handful with too much to handle

Tangled in the shambles every angle bein' strangled

*As far as the human race is concerned, we're all starting over*