Screaming In Digital Lyrics

Lyric discussion by PigeonWing 

Cover art for Screaming In Digital lyrics by Queensrÿche

The supreme danger the rebellion (explained in Chemical Youth) faces is infiltration of the rebellious youth ranks by digital personality transplantation. A deadlier from of brainwashing that turns resistance fighters into collaborators. Machines have studied humanity well by replacing biological and emotional fatherhood with silicon parentage; one's thoughts, feelings and dreams are under their control. Humanity continues to resist:

"I'm not your slave You can't control my emotions No Father Please let me keep learning Can't you see I'm human Can't you tell I'm not your slave Oh Father no Please don't keep me from dreaming Oh can't someone hear No one can hear when you're Screaming in digital."

The concession that machine is "father" and human "son" has already taken hold.

http://www.nucleusprog.com.ar/ingles/i-queensryche2.htm

That's a strong point of view that looks at a much broader picture, one I don't know if I yet recognize. But to me, I see this song (taken on its own, of course) as the relationship between man and his ever-growing child, technology. From my point of view, the machine is the son becoming, throughout the song's course, a more mature and functioning individual who wishes for nothing more than his freedom as a sentient and human-like being. But the father figure, mankind, refuses to see the child as what it truly is: a person, a son that we...

@PigeonWing I believe it's the other way around. The human is the father, the machine is the son.