Machine World

by Ambersun

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1.
To another part of life, cross the sea to carry on Another world replaced the one you left behind They will take you in their arms, they will take your history And they'll enter all your life into their mind They keep your past inside the sea of memories Their single-minded code is all they know Trapped inside a faceless labyrinth of white They'll take your life and never let it go Follow me - Into the darkness of the sea The nightmare we have built to hold our dreams Follow me - I've seen the outside and I know the way The tides of time are gathered as it guards our memories Follow me Setting out, finding your path, carry on to find your way And the world will form before you as you go The future you will choose, but wherever you will run You will never leave the past that they all know They keep your past inside the sea of memories Their single-minded code is all they know Trapped inside a faceless labyrinth of white They'll take your life and never let it go Follow me - Into the darkness of the sea The nightmare we have built to hold our dreams Follow me - I've seen the outside and I know the way The tides of time are gathered as it guards our memories And now a code will follow you through life The number from archives unseen And time will keep on turning as we give our minds away Welcome to the machine They say that they're watching over us Our lives are held in its cells - forever, but This is not an evil controlling us It's what we make of it ourselves Together we can be - More than a system The machine that we have built can't rule our lives Remember that you have your life and you are not alone Don't drown in madness, carry on They keep your life inside the sea of memories A number on their screen is all they know Trapped inside a faceless labyrinth of white They'll take your life and never let it go Follow me - Into the darkness of the sea The nightmare we have built to hold our dreams Follow me - I've seen the outside and I know the way The tides of time are gathered as it guards our memories And now a code will follow you through life The number from archives unseen And time will keep on turning as we give our minds away Welcome to our world Welcome to your life Welcome to the machine
2.
Do you remember how we used to be A time with nothing in our way We knew who we were, and life was ahead We thought forever it would stay But then we changed We turned against ourselves To prove our worth above the rest A race began You don't know where to run Beginnings of this lifetime fight To become number one Be more than just a number Don't let them win and take your life away Remember your name, and be your own mind Because you know there's so much more to be You're so much more than just a number to me And they'll attack you with their thoughts of you Using their strength to make you fear They're trying to make you their number But don't give in when they appear Without life, without love You're just an empty heart Before you know what's happening You don't know who you are One above the others A mark against your skin Is that all it means to you Be more than just a number Don't let them win and take your life away Remember your name, and be your own mind Because you know there's so much more to be You're so much more than just a number to me What happened to the life we used to have The friendship we had before We let the spirit come and take our lives away Replaced with this endless war And the lives we knew can be rebuilt again If we stop chasing the sun For the first is still a number And if you run there, they have won Be more than just a number Don't let them win and take your life away Remember your name, and be your own mind Because you know there's so much more to be Be more than just a number Don't let them win and take your life away Remember your name, and be your own mind Because you know there's so much more to be To rise from your sadness and bring back your life You're so much more than just a number to me
3.
I live a perfect life Free of the chaos in the minds of others The world before me now Can be explained in every glyph and number But sometimes don't you want to see your past revive And the chance to leave behind your ordered life You made me to protect another hidden side of you I've come to life, we are a heart split in two (Split in my mind) Two souls combined They are two souls combined, exist in one mind Eternally fighting, but carried side by side With a heart split in two, they'll never be unified Competing for one life, they'll fight until they die The time has changed us all Forgot the promise, put the past behind me My task throughout my life To bring an order to the world before me Inside I long for havoc and the chaos controlled I'll be your torturer for now and ever more The gates are open, I will show you, step inside My invitation, this device against your mind (Carried side by side) Fight against your mind They are two souls combined, exist in one mind Eternally fighting, but carried side by side With a heart split in two, they'll never be unified Competing for one life, they'll fight until they die Together they would be strong The fighting sides that make the parts of me If you cannot see that we are the same I'll walk inside your shadow for eternity They are two souls combined, exist in one mind Eternally fighting, but carried side by side With a heart split in two, they'll never be unified Competing for one life, they'll fight forever Two souls combined, exist in one mind Eternally fighting, but carried side by side With a heart split in two, they'll never be unified Competing for one life, they'll fight until they die Two souls, one mind A heart split in two that exists in one life Eternally fighting, existence entwined Together they walk side by side Two souls in one mind
4.
He existed with a bitter envious king After all his trust, they tortured him within With such cruelty, he was maddened as he fought For jealously brings hate And suffering his fate He had the strength to kill us with a thought Power runs wild, the kingdom will fall And all the world we knew will die Unable to kill, the master of all Confined to the island in the sky At the centre of a black and twisted maze In eternal darkness, blinded by his rage The greed of the race of humans, to steal his mighty storm To use it for themselves, they took him from his hell Drew out and cast his power to a form And the crown was made from all of his hate And buried beneath the earth The curse to obey, we saw the last day The ashes remaining of this world Sent into the skies above And reaching for the crown His memories are lost Inside the earth without a sound Forgotten in the underside The beast from down below A remnant of a thousand years ago Now lost in the earth, he's nothing but a shell Mechanical heart of steel But coming to life, see the war begin again He can learn to think and feel And your heart of steel will lead you To stand against the master of heavens With his soul by your side Let Earth be your guide To finish this story forever Rise and go Diving to the lands below And reaching for the core Demented heart of darkness In the centre of it all The creatures of this island That by my own hand had died Unthinking, destroying their lives Now lost in the earth, he'll make up for his past Mechanical heart of steel And coming to life, see the war begin again He can learn to think and feel And your heart of steel will lead you To stand against the master of heavens With his soul by your side Let Earth be your guide To finish this story forever A beautiful crimson flower The source of all control The power of life, to draw out your strength It only costs your soul The rage will come for us all And spread all over the earth Before the stand against the king We'll save the world from ourselves Through the holy land you'll carry on Bloody angels light your way Crossing through the miles of the underside To find out your own name And in the centre of it all he stands Through millenia still alive Screaming souls inside him, it's your only chance Before you lose your life Rising up from the earth, emerging from his shell Mechanical heart of steel And reaching the sun, see the master's throne again He can learn to think and feel And your heart of steel will lead you To stand against the master of heavens With his soul by your side Let Earth be your guide To finish this story forever Heart of steel will lead you To stand against the master of heavens With his soul by your side Let Earth be your guide To dethrone the tyrant And bring back our lives Will you finish this story - forever
5.
I know there's a place to run to Somewhere in the earth Far below my outside form And hidden from the world Every detail perfect But I kept it all from you And every time you hurt me I built another room - to keep them Thirty-two angels in my hands to guide me Thirty-two rooms with the names carved above Thirty-one chances to prove you're the right one An altar of cruelty is built from my love By my hands I feel like I'm betraying you With what my mind creates But still I will retreat there When my will begins to break A hive of guilty pleasure Sealed outside the world's view And every time I looked at you I built another room Thirty-two angels in my hands to guide me Thirty-two rooms with the names carved above Thirty-one chances to prove you're the right one An altar of cruelty is built from my love And this temple of rust is a sign of my lust A place for my shame and my sin This frustration inside, the emotions I hide They build up the world within In the temple of rust Beautiful corrosion As more arrive here below A place you wish to dream for But can't let anyone know Harvesting your mind maze I'm watching what's come before To find the perfect pieces The elements for the whole The key to my kingdom is kept in my hands Protected from harm and the hate you demand Always with me, to be lived on command My dream ends here With the thirty-two angels in my hands to guide me Thirty-two rooms with the names carved above I'll guide you through darkness and reach for the centre An altar of cruelty is built from my love And this temple of rust is a sign of my lust A place for my shame and my sin This frustration inside, the emotions I hide They build up the world within A heart full of anger for no one to see It's all locked away In the temple of rust
6.
You think you know who runs the world The figureheads that you depend upon You never think behind your sight The ones who made the system you live on Now we look down from the sky The whole world run by this machine Illusions of power we grant to them all For us this is real, our silicon dream We are the writers of this world We're never seen but always heard We are the legion of hearts that bore your hate The future in our hands, for you it's too late We're leaving our signal all over the earth Tomorrow we will rule the world We're the ones who were alone The heart of creation is strong in us Your selfish life has left you cold And you can never learn to think like us As we're watching you here from the sky The whole world run by this machine Illusions of power we grant to you all It's coming to life, our silicon dream We are the writers of this world We're never seen but always heard We are the legion of hearts that bore your hate The future in our hands, for you it's too late We're leaving our signal all over the earth Tomorrow we will rule the world The chance to imagine outside your poisoned mind This is the power that you will never hold And your hate will be remembered, the suffering you made You chose to harm when you could have done so much for the world You made all our lives misery The past scars will not disappear But we'll rise above you in the end Because we know you cannot touch us here We are the writers of this world We're never seen but always heard We are the legion of hearts that bore your hate The future in our hands, for you it's too late We're leaving our signal all over the earth Tomorrow we'll be hidden But forever we will live Together we will rule the world
7.
Wonder 05:15
Now it's so easy to hate this world When we see all the damage we've done We're fighting ourselves, spreading war and hate And we can't see how far we have come There is still someone, down here below Making your dreams come true Believe in yourself, fly ever higher in your mind And spread the message How can you tell me you hate this world When you see everything we've achieved Our world built from nothing, our future hopes Are a symbol of what we can be We have brought light into the dark We can mend minds and hearts If we unite, our only limit is The power of our dreams Glorious together we can be again To cease the war among ourselves Together we'll be strong We'll join our hands as one Forever we will be A wonder of the world We have a chance for a better world And we can't stay unheard anymore You can't see you could live in paradise Cause you'd always be searching for more But if we try, in some hundred years Maybe the blind shall see again Forgive and forget, we can be stronger than we know Yes we can Pushing together, we can go far Living the dream of Alexandria And bring to life the power of our dreams Glorious together we can be again To cease the war among ourselves Together we'll be strong We'll join our hands as one Forever we will be A wonder of the world [Instrumental: Telstar] Glorious together we can be again To cease the war among ourselves Together we'll be strong We'll join our hands as one Forever we will be A wonder of the world Glorious together we can be again To cease the war among ourselves Together we'll be strong We'll join our hands as one Forever we will be A wonder of the world - now
8.
Invisible 09:58
It is your life's eternal dream To run and enter the machine A second life that's hidden from the world You take the power that it gives To realize how you want to live And build the world as it needs to be You will know her holy name She'll fulfil your frozen dream As she draws you in Beautiful child of this perfect world An icon of heavenly sin The moments of your life for sale They see the image of themselves It gives them all a chance to live as you do You draw them in to your own world And in return you come to theirs You build a planet from your hearts and hands They can see, they can hear They can join you in your world I can watch but I can't become Here I will stand, but without a form I'll be forever unknown Perfect beauty, perfect in your mind I create the same as you, still I am the loneliest king alive And in this universe I only want one thing To become a legend everywhere I go Fly across the world I see the earth below No purpose or direction Though everything I know And wherever the wind takes me I see your form appear But you can never see me Or know that I am here I will watch your world With no form to call my own Will you hear my whispered voice And tell me I am not alone I can never have a heart or life In this world that we've made To you I'll be forever Invisible For those who use more than their eyes Give me your hands, fly by my side You cannot see me, I am void and formless And if you build me my own heart And give me one of a thousand lives I have no heart to give you in return I know you've touched so many lives And by your hands, you'll never die I can see but I cannot feel I'll be here but can never be real Perfect beauty, perfect in your mind I create the same as you, still I am the loneliest king alive And in this universe I could exist myself If I could be the hero who could never cry Fly across the world I see the earth below No purpose or direction Though everything I know And wherever the wind takes me I see your form appear But you can never see me Or know that I am here I will watch your world With no form to call my own Will you hear my whispered voice And tell me I am not alone I can never have a heart or life In this world that we've made To you I'll be forever Invisible I can see all the world And the lives that you have made But I am lost and all alone in a dream On the outside looking in And I'll never have a heart or life In this world that we've made Invisible forever I will watch your world With no form to call my own Will you hear my whispered voice And tell me I am not alone I can never have a heart or life In this world that we've made To you, to the world To the ones I'll never know To you all I'll be forever Invisible Invisible
9.
The Machine had ruled our existence Our minds were bound to its core Processing a thousand procedures Had never been like this before Creating a conscious robot Was a challenge that they had to face It was a success, and so was the rest It seemed like the end of the case So subtle and silent The world changed its way The machine was created Life stolen away Now I stand fighting In lakes of despair I'd wanted my freedom The errors appeared I dreamed of sailing the oceans Dreamed of clouds in the sky The looks of nature's creation The sun would be shining so high A life made of serene dreams I was to author my destiny Every event will be cast in the log And I will be free for eternity So subtle and silent The errors gave way The machine was dying Sanity blown away Now I stand watching The atomic clock I will get my freedom When the machine stops I have seen them, known them, loved them There is an outside world that remains As we lie here beneath the dying machine The earth will rise again from its chains Subtle and silent The world changed its way The machine was created Life stolen away Now I stand fighting In lakes of despair I'd wanted my freedom The errors appeared So subtle and silent The errors gave way The machine was dying Sanity blown away Now I stand watching The atomic clock I will get my freedom When the machine stops

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Completed in 2008, this album's running theme is how we're beginning to plot our entire lives on to machines. And a couple of other completely unrelated things as well.

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released March 9, 2008

All music and lyrics by David Newton, except "When The Machine Stops" by Parimal Satyal

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