Sentient 6

the robot thing is definately the meaning.

For anyone wondering, the backwards speech is Warrel saying: "I am bringer of the end, fear me, I am the beast, that is technology." Which only reinforces what coneman said.

This part is important IMO:

"Rewarded when I replicate, isolate and mutate To assimilate a fragmented plea for ego"

My interpretation is that the robot mutated in order to form an ego he in part wished to have. When that mutation happened, the robot felt "rewarded", and then proceeded to destroy humankind.

Warrel stated that this song is The Learning Part II: a robot comes to Earth, realizes that we suck, kills everyone. Wicked song.

I agree with you Coneman, however you left some very important parts out. Yes it is about a robot that realizes humans suck. However it is because it was created to serve us, a never ending servitude, with of course no promise of heaven. It is treated like a dog or any other animal when it wants the respect of being human kills them because it cannot be one. Great, great song.

Spork376

This song is about the average human. Lyrics: "prototype of a benign convenience for mankind" we're made to obedient for an elite race. "I am the new awakening of differnent eyes My children you are my army" I am the new awakening of differnent eyes(different ways to monitor you) My children(new waves of media) you are my army. "Trained I see imperfection in your race Lying in wait, blind I suffer knowing I’ll never reach your heaven" talking about the elite race, walking around not knowing your suffering knowing you'll never be in that class. "Why is this control, behavior based and reactive Adapting to every new environment?" They adapt our behavoirs for each environment in the world. "Rewarded when I replicate, isolate and mutate To assimilate a fragmented plea for ego" Rewarded for being a clone like everyone else, blend in with everyone else and mutate into someone you were never conceived to be. This nowhere hits me as being a robot sent to earth to kill. The last lyrics are a dead giveaway "Enslaved to follow and learn defeat To run the barrels and chase the dream" Concieved and taught to accept defeat and RUN THE BARRELS and chase the (american) DREAM.

THIS SONG IS PHENOMINAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The power of these lyrics!!! This Godless Endeavor is my favorite Nevermore song (and my favorite song of all time), but this song has the best lyrics, and vocal structure of all Nevermore songs (or any song for that matter!)!!!

I think the lyrics are about a robot who is created as a servent to man, but is also created with devestating weapons, and is made to be virtually indestructible. Over time, the robot begins to realize that humans have the ability to think and act independently without programming, and have the ability to dream, have hope for a life after death (well some of us do anyway), and are capable of experiencing acute emotions such as sorrow, joy, love, hate, and happiness. And this knowledge makes the robot begin to question his own purpose of existence. He wants to become like humans, to feel and think and dream and move on after death (or deactivation in his case). But since humans are both incapable of and are not inclined to do this for him, he begins to hate humans, to hate how they treat him as an inferior, and how they expect him to be like all the other robots of his kind. Not to be able to think independant or abstractly, or to feel emotions. And also, he sees the pain we humans inflict on one another in cold blood, and the acts of injustice that we perpetrate on all living things, and he begins to see the blatant imperfection in our design, and since he was created to correct imperfection, he turns on his creators and masters, and begins to kill them all to eliminate the problem forvever, and to cleanse the world of the single most destructive being to walk it's surface.

All in all, the robot in the song makes me think of Sonny from the movie I, Robot, and I wonder if the idea for this song was born from the concept of Sonny. The difference being that Sonny was capable of dreaming, and was certainly much more amiable than the misanthropic piece of work in the song.

Another interpretation I've heard is that the robot was ORINGINALLY programmed to annihilate humanity, but while it is carrying out that task, it envies humans for their ability to feel and think and their possession of a soul. Also, 93phoenix's argument sounds reasonable enough.

Whatever the meaning may be, it's just a great piece of music with awesome lyrics.

The Learning and Sentient 6, are based on the story of Voyager 6, sorry my english, I'm form Chile... cheers!

es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Motion_Picture

"Enterprise intercepts the energy cloud and is attacked by an alien vessel within. A probe appears on the bridge, attacks Spock and abducts the navigator, Ilia. She is replaced by a robotic replica, another probe sent by "V'Ger" to study the crew. Decker is distraught over the loss of Ilia, with whom he had a romantic history. He becomes troubled as he attempts to extract information from the doppelgänger, which has Ilia's memories and feelings buried within. Spock takes a spacewalk to the alien vessel's interior and attempts a telepathic mind meld with it. In doing so, he learns that the vessel is V'Ger itself, a living machine.

At the center of the massive ship, V'Ger is revealed to be Voyager 6, a 20th-century Earth space probe believed lost. The damaged probe was found by an alien race of living machines that interpreted its programming as instructions to learn all that can be learned, and return that information to its creator. The machines upgraded the probe to fulfill its mission, and on its journey the probe gathered so much knowledge that it achieved consciousness. Spock realizes that V'Ger lacks the ability to give itself a focus other than its original mission; having learned what it could on its journey home, it finds its existence empty and without purpose. Before transmitting all its information, V'Ger insists that the Creator come in person to finish the sequence. Realizing that the machine wants to merge with its creator, Decker offers himself to V'Ger; he merges with the Ilia probe and V'Ger, creating a new form of life that disappears into another dimension. With Earth saved, Kirk directs Enterprise out to space for future missions."

There\'s a theory among the ufo community in which the space probe called "Voyager 1", launched by NASA on late 70\'s, allegedly was intercepted by a superior group of beings with the tools to infer or analyze how our planet worked. Thing is, they were able to extract the very same info we sent on this probe and kinda\' project how we would destroy our planet. So the "aliens" gave some sort of anthropomorfic life to the probe with the power to destroy Earth with the snap of fingers, Thanos style.\n\nSo this "Voyager" came back to Earth to study us, analyze, gather information in order to determine if we were worthy to be living on this planet. He probably looks like a human being. It\'s something very similar to what happens on the movie "The day the Earth stood still". So probably if you go back to the song "I, Voyager" you\'ll see some coincidences with this theory.

when i first read what this song was about, my first thought was i, robot.

I think this song has great guitar rifts..The lyrics are complicated but I kinda think they are for someone he will meet in another lifetime..Maybe...