Automaton Songtext
von Assemblage 23

Inside the beige expanse
Between the two extremes
Reality begins to flicker

A wall with no detail
A face with no expression
A gun with a missing trigger

No anger or despair
No ecstasy or bliss
Just a husk, left with no feeling

Shambling through life
In non-descript surroundings
Is a soul, that′s worth concealing

No ups
No downs
Emotion gone
No blood
No soul
Automaton


Emotionally inert
Sporadically alert
The drone of the world is numbing

The traffic howls outside
The rumble of machines
Seem to warn, of what is coming

The pressure starts to build
While the surface is pristine
There's no sign, of doom impending

But cracks begin to form
An aperture in bloom
A threshold, to somber endings

No ups
No downs
Emotion gone
No blood
No soul
Automaton

Distant and detached
Impassive and aloof
The bullets start to rip through the building


Splinters taking flight
Through nebulas of smoke
And the cries, of the unwilling

Emotion overwhelms
A hurricane of fear
A moment, of realization

The monster hid inside
Until it couldn′t sleep
A disastrous, abomination

No ups
No downs
Emotion gone
No blood
No soul
Automaton

No ups
No downs
Emotion gone
No blood
No soul
Automaton