[Verse 1]

Even strobe, a pulse

Of flashing hate-lights

Of synthetic souls

Mass produced

Hammered into shape

A sign of times

Dreams turn into systems

A new way, a new breed

Implanted in our minds

[Chorus]

Here I am

In the hand of

Sterile hate

The new control

I cannot wake

I'm not asleep

[Verse 2]

New intelligence

Arise

In emptied bodies

Turgid flesh

Tested, through eternal spastic fits

Through not-known codes

Mother machine in genocide

Now scorn

A dying race

[Chorus]

Evolution

In reverse

Now it's time for me

Changing

What am I to be?

Contorted

An eternity

Defeated

[Verse 3]

Programmed to appease you

We're symbols of perfection

Humanoids ruined by your laws:

Destroy, erase, improve

Lesson first: submission

We're docile servant dogs

Our leashes are your limbs

Computed deep within

[Instrumental Interlude]

[Guitar Solo]

[Bridge]

Remoted minds

Control our thoughts

No more doubts

The new way is here

Disgorged

Another thousand fakes that obey

To a circuit skein, to vacuum

[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 4]

Mechanical thoughts, I now conceive

No longer me

Always to see, inanity

Millions to be, units like me, eternally

Human patterns

Copied, dissected, distorted

Completed to fit the machine

The nerve fibers give in to cords

To the unknown

[Verse 5]

See me

Be me

Same contents

Same machine

The currency

Of ours no more

Flesh and bone

We are to be

Unaware

Of what we have been before

[Chorus]

Evolution

In reverse

Now it's time for me

Changing

What am I to be?

Contorted

An eternity

Defeated

By the new machine