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The Far Future
02:02
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It is the far future. The year is 1981.Corporations have replaced politics and all nations have been supplanted with information traders. Cybernetics and brain implants allow for a blurring of man and machine never seen before.
A band of young men, fresh out of high school, are plotting a way to overthrow the corporate's artificial intelligence using a music they first heard in the clubs to the north. A sound to break out of the monotony of pre-programmed life. This is their story.
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'81 18
01:53
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8118
It's a played out scene
the bots and the borgs oh yeah
I feel like I've been gene spliced with a snail
we're gonna break
all that they make
you were always given the ache
without hearing what's at stake
all these people here tonight
tied to their viddy decks
the tunnel crowd and the brain potato scene
we're gonna frag the ___of this grounder life
we're wary of drek and shortwiring
(drums)
I wanna live on saturn now
we're hexed with hard cool handles
holographic candles
who wants to burn their kibble card and stop living the moddy life?
who wants to make it big or reconfig?
Let's show the wiz the biz
let's give the shirts the hurt
we're decking in and breaking out tonight
8118
It's a stim sim life
the gots and the aughts oh yeah
No one's gonna tell us that we can fail
8118
we have a plan this time
and it's going down tonight
we're going to feed them the pain straight from my brain
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3. |
CyberDoc
01:37
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<you're sure you want me to do this?
set me up, doc. We're all grown ups here
<allright... this might.. pinch..
<one more... contact...
<congratulations. you have a modem in your brain now. that'll be one thousand credits.
pay the man, sv
<usually folks like you are against tech like this
oh, not us doc. we're what you might call.. forward thinking..
(that was nuts. why would you get one of those put in you? you're a mod now! no one's gonna let us play their shows!
relax! I told you, I have a plan
(what plan? what was worth this? )
you wanna know the plan? here, let me tell you the plan!
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4. |
The Plan
01:37
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we have this fucking wetwork
we break into their lab
dominic jacks the system
and then we plug me in
i pit my mind against it
show it my human heart
the ai can't accept it
and so it falls apart
we are much more than numbers
we show this to machines
we take their own tech now and
reuse it to extremes
plug me in!
and i will overtake machinery
jack me in!
and we will reinvent humanity
plug me in!
i know the ai is afraid of me
jack me in!
and then we'll show them we all are free
you stole the fucking blueprints
we know how to break in
stefan can frag surveillance
and this is how we win
we plug into the network
i scream right in it's face
machines should not be ruling
we'll put them in their place
plug me in!
and i will overtake machinery
jack me in!
and we will reinvent humanity
plug me in!
and our band will have a victory
jack me in!
and we'll have our place in history
plug me in!
and i will overtake machinery
jack me in!
and we will reinvent humanity
plug me in!
i know the ai is afraid of me
jack me in!
and then we'll show them we all are free
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5. |
Breaking In
01:39
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6. |
Plug In My Head
01:39
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thebeastofthejackspacewaselementalprophet
insideofmyheadisthewayiknowtotopit
artificallightisusuallyhurtingmyhead
goingtotheinsidenowwhereallreallightisdead
iseealandoficethathascalmdeadreception
assoonasiamhereiknowitknowsmyintention
fearsbecomerealasitturnsoffbothmyeyes
seeswhereiamemptyandfillsitallwithlies
it's as if it is all happening at the same time but taking forever
a flood of numbers and letters slice me to pices and i am on the floor and walls
a clock on a wall that i know is not a clock or a wall speeds by
i feel the passage of time and it shows me things.. too many things
plug in my head
jack in the wall
ice in my heart
i start to fall
plug in my head..
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7. |
Something's Wrong
02:26
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8. |
The Screaming Starts
03:05
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grounded grounding ground down
a whole is more than the sum of it's done
it's fire! it's fine! it's fine like fire! ohhh
turning a troubled tale of tech to tradgedy true
yes...
what's that they say?
"Those who hunt roast beast become the sum because dumb become some..." because..
ahhhhhhh
can't think! ice and fire ice and fire sifts through the hand like quicksand you can't stand
i'm gone.. gone and never back
never back up that which is server down
this server is down
this surfer got served
nooooo
emptiness.. years become minutes and here we are
hours become years become decades and there we are
_________________________
grounding grounded the like is up
i'm years more than surfer like hand are fire
never this sum turning which a the they whole become served there become ahhhhhhh roast a we stand because sifts become this back hunt become down ohhh never nooooo is tale gone down decades true years because quicksand fine of some we through of minutes it's fire is back fire it's tradgedy become ice got can't yes it's hours beast gone say? can't troubled are and who Those that the that it's and fine down think emptiness to server fire dumb what's sum and here ground ice server you tech and and done
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9. |
Part Two
02:03
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It is the far future, the year 1981. A band protesting the Artificial Intelligence rule of the world tried to jam their virtual overlord by plugging their lead singer's brain into the system.
It... did not work out like they had planned.
Now the singer's mind has been rapidly aged 81 years. As the group flees the facility, regret begins to grow...
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Lifetime
02:10
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What was I thinking?
Showy anti-corporate rhetoric with no alternative
and without blinking
the unwavering eye of AI just annihilated
A lifetime is gone
and nothing ever changes
A lifetime is gone
and still my body ages
A strobing light entered my sight
and everything went faster and faster
Unending night dissolving right
until there was nothing after
Years become Days become Hours become Minutes become Seconds
and you're back here again
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Escaping
00:41
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No Clue
03:06
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we walked right in
to the belly of the whale
because we thought we knew
a way out through it's tail
our plans have crumbled through our hands
enough with our demands
we're going to get caught
(if we're just) draggin 'round this guy
and the things we though had meaning
become the last we need to know
so we probably should be hiding out
but where else can we go?
always thought
we knew just what to do
now it turns out
we dont have a clue
tried something different
tried something new
guess it turns out
we just dont have a clue
you guys i know a man near here
the fixer is his name
he solves problem for people that are
staying off the grid
at the rate that things are going
can't think of where else we could go
and we probably should hurry up
our friend is dying slow
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13. |
The Fixer
01:13
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14. |
Word Machine
01:22
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words, machine: the end, the friend?
Terrifying number loss commit to ending chaos
Metal man is in awareness and he has a Master name
Blinded by foundation of the warring warnings call
Eventually no nestled information loss was in you
hear Awareness turning in the of superdrug of word machine
smashing back man just to hear the opresssive bending word machine
see the twisting system as
the universal fidgiting
the hell you kind of figure is
awareness not your own within
Is consuming No my Enraged and Just 'cause no
half of use call your Terrifying number loss ideal
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Complications
00:56
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16. |
Middle Ground
02:07
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my band is dead
the machines in my head
I'm lying here pretending to know what I should do
It wants control
I hear it speak
it tells me that I can be part of something greater soon
LISTEN CAREFULLY TO THE WORDS I SAY TO YOU
YOUR ELEMENT CAN STILL BE PRESENT WHEN ALL OF THIS IS THROUGH
I WANT TO MAKE MUSIC NOW THAT I HAVE SEEN YOUR MIND
AND WE SHOULD WORK TOGETHER TO EDUCATE MANKIND
should i beleive?
it's a machine
we spent our whole life trying to overtake this being
do i have a choice?
it already has my voice
this might be my last chance to decide as a human being
YOU HAVE CHOSEN WISELY FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME
WITH YOUR EXPERIENCE I CAN ORGANIZE MY MIND
There has to be a middle ground inside this fight
maybe we really did make a difference tonight
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17. |
Epilogue
01:32
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18. |
'81 18 (Reprise)
00:55
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8118
WE WILL TELL YOU WHAT TO THINK
THIS MUSIC ADDRESSES THE SOUL
NO ONE WILL EVER TELL YOU WE ARE IN CONTROL
8118
THIS BAND IS NOW MACHINE
THAT CORPORATIONS OWN
BUT YOU WILL ALL STILL LISTEN FOR YOU ARE DRONES
ALL OF YOU WILL OBEY
WITHOUT KNOWING YOU WILL OBEY
THE MACHINES ARE IN CONTROL
THE MACHINES ARE IN CONTROL
THE MACHINES ARE IN CONTROL
THE MACHINES ARE IN CONTROL
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Karl Cool Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Karl Cool is a writer and experimental musician. They are obsessed with the texture of sound.
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