I am sentient number six, I stand in line
I am the prototype of a benign convenience for mankind
Superior is digital, human flesh so trivial
I hate that I can't see the one that made me
I am the new awakening of differnent eyes
My children you are my army
They are what we can never see and still despise
And their sky cries Mary
Trained I see imperfection in your race
Lying in wait, blind I suffer knowing I'll never reach your heaven
Why is this control, behavior based and reactive
Adapting to every new environment?
Rewarded when I replicate, isolate and mutate
To assimilate a fragmented plea for ego
Trained I see imperfection in your race
Lying in wait, blind I suffer knowing I'll never reach your heaven
It's unattainable, please teach me how to dream
I long to be more than a machine
Trained I see imperfection in your race
Lying in wait, blind I suffer knowing I'll never reach your heaven
It's unattainable, please teach me how to dream
I long to be more than a machine
Sequence activate, trip the hammer to eradicate, I must eliminate
I will spread swift justice on their land
Termination imminent, cleanse the parasite insects, the heathens
I am the bringer of the end of time for man
I am not here, I am not far away
I am not here, I will eradicate mankind into the nothingness from whence they came
Enslaved to follow and learn defeat
To run the barrels and chase the dream
I am the prototype of a benign convenience for mankind
Superior is digital, human flesh so trivial
I hate that I can't see the one that made me
I am the new awakening of differnent eyes
My children you are my army
They are what we can never see and still despise
And their sky cries Mary
Trained I see imperfection in your race
Lying in wait, blind I suffer knowing I'll never reach your heaven
Why is this control, behavior based and reactive
Adapting to every new environment?
Rewarded when I replicate, isolate and mutate
To assimilate a fragmented plea for ego
Trained I see imperfection in your race
Lying in wait, blind I suffer knowing I'll never reach your heaven
It's unattainable, please teach me how to dream
I long to be more than a machine
Trained I see imperfection in your race
Lying in wait, blind I suffer knowing I'll never reach your heaven
It's unattainable, please teach me how to dream
I long to be more than a machine
Sequence activate, trip the hammer to eradicate, I must eliminate
I will spread swift justice on their land
Termination imminent, cleanse the parasite insects, the heathens
I am the bringer of the end of time for man
I am not here, I am not far away
I am not here, I will eradicate mankind into the nothingness from whence they came
Enslaved to follow and learn defeat
To run the barrels and chase the dream
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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.
"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.
Spork376
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.
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.
Coneman: I dunno if the robot COMES to earth; it sounds more like he's designed by humans, for "convencience" and all. But the rest sounds right. He realizes that we suck... and ERADICATES. >:]
But then there's also that sense of him wanting to be, you know, SENTIENT; he wants to be more than a machine. It kinda has the whole Frankenstein thing goin' on... like, the humans created a monster.
Rakoro already covered the backwards thing, but you guys should totally try it. My friend and I recorded it and reversed it and it was frickin' awesome. I was pretty scared... hahaha. And I'm pretty sure he says "seven" a bunch of times before (/after) those lines. The way we recorded it, it started out with "seven seven seven." o___O