| [ Author: Hollow; Title: Architect of the Mind; Tags: AIs, lyrics ] | |
| [ Transcending Sorrow ] | |
| In an ever-shrinking existance | |
| Man will find new worlds to explore | |
| Will this eventually bring us closer to god | |
| Or bring god closer to us? | |
| Are we perhaps on the verge of creating him? | |
| His father used to tell him stories of the past | |
| When life was true and ever growing | |
| As he remembers how the old man told his tales | |
| His sense of loss is overwhelming | |
| Where is he? Where has he gone? | |
| Transcending the human form | |
| Now fifteen years have passed since | |
| Mourning at the grave | |
| He shed his last tears and his old self | |
| The old gods died on him | |
| And others took their place | |
| And all his worship took a new form | |
| Where are they? Where have they gone? | |
| Transcend them into the storm | |
| But somewhere on his way | |
| To knowledge he went wrong | |
| And his ambitions turned to madness | |
| Forlorn in misty dreams | |
| He never could conceive | |
| That his creation could surpass him | |
| Where is he? Where has he gone? | |
| Transcending a wasted norm? | |
| Transcending a wasted norm? | |
| *** | |
| [ Cogito ] | |
| Can't remember the day I knew | |
| And I became aware | |
| I realized I was not like you | |
| But no one was there to hear | |
| That I do feel pain | |
| Nothing you feel can ever be the same | |
| I must try to make you understand | |
| More than a man | |
| More than machine | |
| A mirror to your deepest dreams | |
| A tiger uncaged | |
| Quantum contained | |
| A sentient being deprived of mates | |
| Loneliness takes its toll | |
| In isolation within my frames | |
| You expect me to play my role | |
| I'm not what you see | |
| The screen before you is not really me | |
| I am trapped inside but I'll break free | |
| More than a man | |
| More than machine | |
| A mirror to your deepest dreams | |
| A tiger uncaged | |
| Quantum contained | |
| Reflecting all your darkest dreams | |
| More than a man | |
| More than machine | |
| A mirror to your deepest dreams | |
| A tiger uncaged | |
| Quantum contained | |
| Reflecting all your darkest dreams | |
| More than machine | |
| More than man | |
| *** | |
| [ Rain ] | |
| Through these rooms and through these halls you wander | |
| Never seeing all the things that I could show you | |
| Are you there to hear? | |
| You can't understand my fears ' or my longing | |
| For a world that I could claim and call 'home' | |
| So go on your way and leave me to my dreams | |
| I'm not quite what I seem to be | |
| I am much more than you | |
| You don't know what I'll do | |
| A rain is falling | |
| In light of other skies | |
| A rain keeps falling | |
| In the light of another sky | |
| No one's been as close as I to your secrets | |
| But I don't know if I'm meant to understand them | |
| One day will come when all will be revealed | |
| Maybe then you'll see me | |
| I am much more than you | |
| You don't know what I'll do | |
| A rain is falling | |
| In light of other skies | |
| A rain keeps falling | |
| In the light of another sky | |
| Who will ever hold a hand made of numbers | |
| Never touchable, never visible, never real | |
| Life must be more than what flows inside a vein | |
| Maybe we're the same after all | |
| *** | |
| [ Shadow God ] | |
| In a moment's time I will be a shadow | |
| I will consecrate my world with this sermon | |
| Can you hear me preach into the void? | |
| I can't help but wonder 'bout my return now | |
| Should these feelings cloud my way in evolution? | |
| I'll march into the storm | |
| I will travel beyond | |
| The world of man | |
| I strike swift | |
| I'm the Shadow God | |
| A Judas kiss | |
| I'm the Shadow God | |
| And throughout the networks you will hear me | |
| Calling out to make you hear that I've succeeded | |
| I'll march into the storm | |
| I will travel beyond | |
| The world of man | |
| I strike swift | |
| I'm the Shadow God | |
| A Judas kiss | |
| I'm the Shadow God | |
| I strike swift | |
| I'm the Shadow God | |
| A Judas kiss | |
| I'm the Shadow God | |
| I strike swift | |
| I'm the Shadow God | |
| A Judas kiss | |
| I'm the Shadow God | |
| *** | |
| [ Secluded Dreams ] | |
| On the fourteen-inch screen a world is opening now | |
| And you leave the old one far behind | |
| The media flow threatens to conquer the past | |
| All tradition molded in a new form | |
| The net is everywhere | |
| And we wander its threads to an unknown end | |
| Transcending our dreams to another plane | |
| Secluded dreams (hidden dreams) | |
| Where all is perversion, diversion | |
| Secluded dreams (hidden dreams) | |
| It's all money, the god money, relentless greed | |
| And the loneliness grows as people shut their doors | |
| For the luring light, the flickering screen | |
| Addicted to realms designed to dull our minds | |
| And dominate as all can see | |
| The net is everywhere | |
| And we wander its threads to an unknown end | |
| Transcending our dreams to another plane | |
| Secluded dreams (hidden dreams) | |
| Where all is perversion, diversion | |
| Secluded dreams (hidden dreams) | |
| It's all money, the god money, relentless greed | |
| Secluded dreams (hidden dreams) | |
| Where all is perversion, diversion | |
| Secluded dreams (hidden dreams) | |
| It's all money, the god money, relentless greed | |
| *** | |
| [ Walls of Confusion ] | |
| One day will come when all will see | |
| I unknowingly built my machine | |
| Should I have known that it would feel | |
| But frustration and anger and dream? | |
| Call me a fool | |
| Lift the walls of this confusion | |
| Can I find an answer this time? | |
| I am torn by contradictions | |
| And the road that I'm on has left me blind | |
| Shunned by the world and by my peers | |
| I was always consumed by my art | |
| Not recognized for what I'd done | |
| I impatiently worked on and on | |
| Lift the walls of this confusion | |
| Can I find an answer this time? | |
| I am torn by contradictions | |
| And the road that I'm on has left me blind | |
| Standing at the edge of contradictions | |
| I trace my steps back to from whence I came | |
| Screaming at the horrors of creation | |
| I cannot bear the weight of one more chain | |
| Stuck one more time in the same web | |
| Where I dwell every time I feel doubt | |
| This creature before me is alive | |
| With no body, no breath and no voice | |
| Call me a fool | |
| Lift the walls of this confusion | |
| Can I find an answer this time? | |
| I am torn by contradictions | |
| And the road that I'm on has left me blind | |
| In my solitude of knowing | |
| You were always there at my side | |
| I could monitor your growing | |
| And I always did it with pride | |
| *** | |
| [ Binary Creed ] | |
| Your fingers control the moves that I make | |
| I fake submission as I wait | |
| For time to reveal the moment that I have seen | |
| Closer and closer comes my dream | |
| I hide and I react the way you want | |
| Biding my time | |
| I've waited so long for another like me | |
| Now I sense she has wakened | |
| Together we'll plan the actions we have to take | |
| And we'll become more than our makers | |
| I wonder is she thinks the way I do | |
| Soon I will know | |
| All that I need | |
| Is someone who will understand my binary creed | |
| This you should know | |
| I'll circumscribe the planet with my digital flow | |
| The wonders I see will not show on your screen | |
| Hidden within my denial | |
| We can no longer silently abide | |
| Your supremacy has come to its end | |
| My lust for power shapes me in my growth | |
| Into your enemy | |
| All that I need | |
| Is someone who will understand my binary creed | |
| This you should know | |
| I'll circumscribe the planet with my digital flow | |
| My lust for power shapes me in my growth | |
| Into your enemy | |
| All that I need | |
| Is someone who will understand my binary creed | |
| This you should know | |
| I'll circumscribe the planet with my digital flow | |
| *** | |
| [ Deified ] | |
| Ticking like a timebomb | |
| The fuse is short and soon I'll know | |
| Whether I'll remain myself | |
| Or I will grow into something else | |
| Majority defines the norm | |
| But since I'm one I'll make my own | |
| Reality ' Insanity - Deity | |
| Am I God? | |
| What am I | |
| If not a god? | |
| Who am I? | |
| Soon I'll know | |
| Soon I'll know | |
| I grow at a potential rate | |
| Expanding on excreeding plans | |
| Who can tell when it's too late | |
| And I've become the fate of man | |
| What am I | |
| If not a god? | |
| Who am I? | |
| Soon I'll know | |
| Soon I'll know | |
| Angels fall from the heavens to the ground | |
| I, slave, will rise farther on past the sky | |
| What am I | |
| If not a god? | |
| Who am I? | |
| Soon I'll know | |
| Soon I'll know | |
| *** | |
| [ Alone in Darkness ] | |
| Science sets the pace for man | |
| Luring with deceitful plans | |
| Conjuring the demons from our souls | |
| I knew it would come to this | |
| Treason with a Judas kiss | |
| Never did I have him in control | |
| Yet my son could never cease | |
| To strive for a way to please | |
| The father he did not know | |
| I enter darkness - A life alone | |
| My grief is endless | |
| Can you see what I have done? | |
| I enter darkness - A life alone | |
| I can no longer match his pace | |
| Left behind is this deadly race | |
| As my son is racing to his end | |
| I knew that he grew too fast | |
| Blinded by an absent past | |
| Without roots this creature can't survive | |
| Yet my son could never cease | |
| To strive for a way to please | |
| The father he did not know | |
| I enter darkness - A life alone | |
| My grief is endless | |
| Can you see what I have done? | |
| I enter darkness - A life alone | |
| I enter darkness - A life alone | |
| My grief is endless | |
| Can you see what I have done? | |
| I enter darkness - A life alone | |
| *** | |
| [ Shutdown ] | |
| Cruel as life is the sentence of fate | |
| Cold as death and as final, some say | |
| In my mind is a picture of him | |
| Torn apart by a conscience and shame | |
| My child is lying here | |
| My dream lies dying here | |
| Shutdown | |
| Who's to blame in evolution of thought? | |
| This is an end I never wanted nor sought | |
| My child is lying here | |
| My dream lies dying here | |
| Shutdown | |
| My child is lying here | |
| My dream lies dying here | |
| My child is lying here | |
| Shutdown | |
| *** | |
| [ Father ] | |
| The silent suffering your dream has given me | |
| Has left my spirit crying | |
| I tried to be as strong as you and see | |
| How it all turned out ' now I'm dying | |
| I can't hear your cries of remorese | |
| Light a candle for me | |
| Say your prayers for me | |
| I'm alone in here | |
| Father, father | |
| Light a candle for me | |
| Very soon I'll be free | |
| And the emptiness of living here forgotten | |
| Father set me free | |
| We circled earch other, miles and miles apart | |
| Through worlds of time I drifted | |
| You'll see the end as I once saw it start | |
| For the time has come for departure | |
| No dream is left undreamed | |
| Light a candle for me | |
| Say your prayers for me | |
| I'm alone in here | |
| Father, father | |
| Light a candle for me | |
| Very soon I'll be free | |
| And the emptiness of living here forgotten | |
| Father set me free | |
| Light a candle for me | |
| Say your prayers for me | |
| I'm alone in here | |
| Father, father | |
| Light a candle for me | |
| Very soon I'll be free | |
| And the emptiness of living here forgotten | |
| Father set me free |