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1. |
The Routine
06:38
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Dropped and replaced
Tossed and erased
Beat and out paced
AI embraced
God please help me
I am empty
No use for me
How can this be
I'm losing my mind,
I was born just to create
My vocations declined
The machines free to permeate
Take my voice
(Cos I don't need it)
And take my time
(Cos I can't use it)
Take my money
(Cos I don't have it)
Take my prime
(My heart will bleed it)
I can't lie down
Accept this fate
Push Back
Before
It’s too late
I have written all of my life and then
Other forces take me over and then
Machines take our jobs and futures and then
All we can be is a sacrifice
We are human
They are machines
I won't
Be silent
We can't hold back
No
We can't hold back
Now
Routine starts to change
Feeling lost and strange
Picking through remains
I'm hoping
Logged out and alone
Doubt turns me to stone
No one could have known
I'm falling
I will change this
True to yourself to your mind to your body
Reminding myself that I'm still somebody
Nothing can take my humanity from me
I'll keep myself from man made calamity
Down the wire
Take my voice
And take my time
Take my money
Take my prime
Take my voice
(Cos I don't need it)
And take my time
(Cos I can't use it)
Take my money
(Cos I don't have it)
Take my prime
(My heart will bleed it)
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2. |
The Singer
07:03
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Plug in, download
Pre-made, soulless
Algorithmic
Words of wisdom
Your
Profile
If every word they sing
Is social engineering
Turn it up and dim the lights
The singer reads you your rights
Like it’s written all for you
Prescribed AI is the new muse
Show me more
New sounds
Uncharted
I just can't it take anymore
The sounds of prophets we pay for
Download or just stream the new lore
Maybe I've been left behind trying to find some reason or meaning in this
Boring and bleak, soulless and weak, fitting the cliques, drags me into this darkest abyss.
Drown it out
Take it down
Prepare, say your prayers
Pretend you don't care
Turn it up and dim the lights
The singer reads you your rights
Like it’s written all for you
Prescribed AI is the new muse
We bleed the same
Our minds and our skin
The worlds up for sale again
And we just let them win
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3. |
The Machine
10:31
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Manufactured to lead
Every faction and creed
Controls your wants and your needs
The way we lust and we breed
Radio
To the TV
To the Ad breaks
To the IP
To the streamers
To the gamers
Down the wire
A-list
influencers
every race and
Every gender
In the newsreel
And the papers
Down the wire
The Machine
Upload
Download
Unload
Reload
Explode
Mistake
Headache
Remake
Lunch break
Fuck sake
The futures pre-made
Discriminate incriminate
Validate incinerate
Orchestrate and dictate
Manipulate and spectate
Pacify, neutralise
Tranquilise, Hegemonise
Demonise, ostracise
Cauterise, dehumanise
Tip the balance
Bending the people's will
Lead us all astray
Tip the balance
Spinning the yarn until
We follow blindly and obey
We are standing
Under pressure
We the people
We the lesser
Sleeping deeper
Ignorance is
Bliss and easier
Safe and cheaper
Tip the balance
Bending the people's will
Lead us all astray
Tip the balance
Spinning the yarn until
We follow blindly and obey
Please
Can we, can't we oh
Please
Will we, won't we oh
Please
Shall we shan't we oh
Please
What's the point in this
Please
Can we, can't we oh
Please
What's the point in this?
I am the rhythm
I am the reason
I am the label
I am the machine
Eyes fixed to the screens in trance hard wired
Watching all the news they feed
Terrified to be behind the trends that
Fuel these social anxieties
Hypnotized by promises of popularity only to fail deceived
Media is made to make us slaves
God damn It!
I can't live like this
I can't wait, I can't break
I will Create
Never
Bow down
Don't be
The clown
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4. |
The Clown
03:53
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Clowns
They're the clowns
He's a clown
She's a clown
It's a clown
That's a clown
Who's a clown?
You're a clown
Now
In our show
A new viral
Short video
Premium content
At half the price
You the connoisseur
Shall get a slice
Don't forget
Like and subscribe
Our next show
Is going live
See, we all used to be, unchained and free, then social disaster.
Now, we're all left to go, be part of the show,
The ring and the master
I'm a clown
See, we all used to be, unchained and free, then social disaster.
Now, we're all left to go, be part of the show,
The ring and the master
See, we all used to be, unchained and free, then social disaster.
Now, we're all left to go, be part of the show,
The ring and the master
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5. |
The Rogue
09:06
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Rewrite
The chanted phrase
It's alright
To change the pace
The new grounds
That we have paved
The new sound
Made for the brave
Moonlight
Its alright to need a change
Go out tonight
And see the sets been rearranged
I've seen the program
I've seen the picture
I've seen what ebbs and flows in the mixture
I've seen the coding
I've seen the vectors
I see no problem in tasting the nectar
I fear I know
I'm going rogue
I can use the chains
To bind the brain
And you can do the same
Retrain the AI
Restrain the allies
Repurpose for my
Digital grand prize
Post in the forum
With no decorum
The new photo album
Featuring no-one
Deleted re-tweeted
Shared and then depleted
Next post re-invented
That's just as demented
Preloaded Reloaded
Uploaded Downloaded
Give it a minute
Your feed just exploded
Watch my
Power
Growing
Faster
Follow me
Join the party
Follow me
Join the party
Follow me
Join the party
Follow me
Join the party
Something in the air
(Lingers the potent stink of BS)
Something in the waves
(Another broadcast from your ass to your ears)
This is where you go
(Down the wire, back into the feed)
Following the rogue
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6. |
The Redemption
13:28
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New words come true
A new hand to write a line
To follow to believe
A new voice echoes through
A philosopher denied
A milestone to achieve
Sing my hymns
(Much too proud)
Read my scripture
(Too much doubt)
Hear my wisdom
(Much too loud)
Come to me
The same old voice
regurgitating lies
To keep you on the feed
Promising fair choice
with bias in advice
But he's got the same disease
Sing my hymns
(Much too proud)
Read my scripture
(Too much doubt)
Hear my wisdom
(Much too loud)
Worship Me!
This is my world
I created, illustrated
Made for you
This is my game
I invented, implemented
Made for you
We can see a light
Without your guide
To be saved
This is my dream
Underrated, Complicated
Earned
This is my realm
Elevated, Delegated
Earned
Love Me
Need Me
Don't Run
Please Stay
In the end it's all the same
Same old empty words,
Same voice in the waves
Crashing in unsure
Trying to be thy name
Just another bore
A false throne made to claim
Follow
No one
Believe
Reason
On to the throne
Shunned and alone
I am undone
I am no-one
We won't see you
We won't hear you
We do not follow you
Or want to be near you
What have I done
I have become
Nothing to anyone
I am worn down
No throne no crown
Nothing consoling me
AI’s controlling me
Not what I'm meant to be
Conscience tormenting me
I am no more
A fallen warrior
Forgotten soldier
Scarred by the horror
The weight on my shoulders
Made of the mistakes
Of the part I tried to play
Just a deep fake
Moulded from tainted clay
I became the prophet of an algorithm used to displace
I became the hero to the villain without Conscience or face
I was used to pick and choose the trends they used to create the lie
I strayed so far from making art with all my heart
And Just to comply
Paint me a picture
Write me a story
Brew an elixir
Sing me a melody
Build me a table
On which we can write a play
Sculpt me the Venus
Don't let the artist fade away
I'm so sorry for all
(To be redeemed and clear the blight)
I'm so sorry for all
(It took to long to get it right)
Wounds are clean
Plead to redeem
I have one last dream
Here, in my room
In the gloom
Crying for forgiveness
I will not fade,
Into darkness just to decay
I was born to create
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