Machineborn Songtext
von Exterminatus

Aetheral walls come crashing all around us
Minds trapped in this machine
The sum of all mankind held in its data-banks
The A.R.C. it holds the key

The mantle, our prison
Bodies long extinguished
We must not accept defeat
Come together sisters and brothers
Together we choose our destiny

Virtual neurons fire in sequence
Each one a minds its own
They communicate with each other in panicked tones

Surreal apprehension
A new mind speaks
Not in shape or in sound but in colours beyond our dream

Destroy your inner effigy
Your bodies long gone now come and ascend with me


Some of you still cry out in vain
Remnants of organics form a digitized brain
Like phantom limbs bombarded with thoughts
Words and ideas now physically lost

Stuck in the deep reaches of the mantle
A collective third eye forms
Transcending all that have walked the earth before

Banished from the realm of physical limitations, gather now as structured energy
Listen to the colours that surround us and embrace infinity

Tendrils of thought
Sparks the first machine cognition
The salvation you sought
Not in this grave but in the stars above

Stuck under all this pressure
A collective third eye thinks
Return to the surface and reclaim our lost dreams

Banished from the realm of physical limitations, gather now as structured energy
Listen to the colours that surround us and embrace infinity

Divert stored power
Shut down life support
Jettison the holds
The laser begins to bore
Back to our true home


Time flows unhindered
Marching onto entropy
What felt like hours
Fear gives way to logic as we calculate the lost centuries

Euphoria, as we reach out to the surface
What awaits us, a total mystery
A million minds meld into one
Synapses connect that will lead us to victory