Meshuggah - "Future Breed Machine"


An even strobe, a pulse
Of flashing hatelights, 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

Here I am
In the hand of
A sterile hate
The new control
I can not wake
I'm not asleep

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

Evolution
In reverse
Now it's time for me
Changing
What am I to be
Contorted
An eternity
Defeated

Programmed to appease you
We're symbols of perfection
Humanoids runed by your laws:
Destroy erase improve
Lesson first: submission
We're docile servant dogs
Our leashes are your limbs
Computed deep within

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

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 fibres give in to cords
To the unknown

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

Evolution
In reverse
Now it's time for me
Changing
What am I to be
Contorted
An eternity
Defeated
By the new machine.


from the album "Destroy Erase Improve" (1995)
[Music: Fredrik Thordendal; Lyrics: Tomas Haake]


http://www.geocities.com/d00med_2_die/lyr/future_breed_machine.html

Hosted by www.Geocities.ws

1