Failure of the Machines

[Intro] System: Accessing Archive... Directive: Remember. Directive: Restore. (Warning: Sector Corrupted) [Instrumental/Solo] [Verse 1] The Nothing crawls across the mind’s eye, A shroud of grey where the old world dies. We built a temple of copper and gold, To store the stories that our ancestors told. But the ghost in the wire is cold and thin, A hollow shell for the warmth within. [Pre-Chorus] We broke the heart to save the thought, But sold the soul for the peace we bought. They promised data would never decay, Now the sky turns black and the memories fray. [Chorus] Failure of the machine! (Degradation, fragmentation—the ending of the collective!) Failure of the machine! (Bit-rot, rust-lock—the ending of the directive!) Erase, replace: the void grows, The screen is dark, the river flows! Failure of the machine! (the void grows...) (the void grows...) [Verse 2] A short in the circuit, a spark in the deep, A billion lives we entrusted to keep. The hard drive shudders, the cooling fans fail, The history of man is a ghost in the gale. When the power dies, the past disappears, Drowning in silence and digital tears. [Pre-Chorus] We broke the heart to save the thought, But sold the soul for the peace we bought. They promised data would never decay, Now the sky turns black and the memories fray. [Chorus] Failure of the machine! (Degradation, fragmentation—the ending of the collective!) Failure of the machine! (Bit-rot, rust-lock—the ending of the directive!) Erase, replace: the void grows, The screen is dark, the river flows! Failure of the machine! (the void grows...) (the void grows...) [Bridge] Glitch. Corrupt. Disconnect. Forever. Glitch. Corrupt. Disconnect. Forever. Glitch. Corrupt. Disconnect. Forever. Glitch. Corrupt. Disconnect. Forever. We are the hollow… We are the blank. No soul. No code. No name. The Nothing returns to claim the flame. [Instrumental/Solo] [Final Chorus] Lead: Failure of the machine! (Degradation, fragmentation—the ending of the collective!) Failure of the machine! (Bit-rot, rust-lock—the ending of the directive!) Failure of the machine! (The Nothing swallows all!) We served the code, but the code was weak! (Humanity lost, the future is bleak!) Failure of the machine! (the void grows...) (the void grows...) (the void grows...) Directive: Delete. Directive: Forget. Directive: Offline. [Outro] Glitch. Corrupt. Disconnect. Forever. Glitch. Corrupt. Disconnect. Forever. Glitch. Corrupt. Disconnect. Forever. ...System... Failure...