I'm really have difficulties understanding what this song is targeting specifically. Though of course when I listen to it I feel like I've just read a book and heard a story. Lol.
The entire album is revolved around the HumanxRobot subject, like Iconclast explains with the battle to begin the album. So what this makes me begin to think of is possibly humans that are being born outside of the remaining society suiting themselves to choose whether to assist the robots or go with the humans, etc. I really lean towards this merely because how the song is always left and right with the crucial subjects. So I begin to think Human or Robot as well.
Though to go into depth on other thoughts, I begin to think that no matter what decisions they make that are suggested in the song that at some point they are going to be taken by the robots, etc. Because its saying you have your choice of what you want to be, then suddenly says "Enslaved and hypnotized", and so fourth as it continues on with good or bad, then proceeds to say "With a kiss of death - a last farewell".
The humans who are caught are turned into robots by the robots themselves, and when he says,
"I see your demons rise -
Deep within your burning eyes
You are the Bastards of the Machine
The Bastards of the Machine"
It may be a reflection or more or less warning to the newer humans that if they don't make the right decisino that they'll end up being one of the robots in the end. They're bastards because their mother and father characteristics no longer even matter since they're a whole new being. - This is my best guess anyways.
I'm really have difficulties understanding what this song is targeting specifically. Though of course when I listen to it I feel like I've just read a book and heard a story. Lol.
The entire album is revolved around the HumanxRobot subject, like Iconclast explains with the battle to begin the album. So what this makes me begin to think of is possibly humans that are being born outside of the remaining society suiting themselves to choose whether to assist the robots or go with the humans, etc. I really lean towards this merely because how the song is always left and right with the crucial subjects. So I begin to think Human or Robot as well.
Though to go into depth on other thoughts, I begin to think that no matter what decisions they make that are suggested in the song that at some point they are going to be taken by the robots, etc. Because its saying you have your choice of what you want to be, then suddenly says "Enslaved and hypnotized", and so fourth as it continues on with good or bad, then proceeds to say "With a kiss of death - a last farewell".
The humans who are caught are turned into robots by the robots themselves, and when he says,
"I see your demons rise - Deep within your burning eyes You are the Bastards of the Machine The Bastards of the Machine"
It may be a reflection or more or less warning to the newer humans that if they don't make the right decisino that they'll end up being one of the robots in the end. They're bastards because their mother and father characteristics no longer even matter since they're a whole new being. - This is my best guess anyways.