[Verse 1: Tom Scott (Human)]
Remember when we lived in the caves? (Hold up)
Remember when we lived in our brains?
And prayed to a creator that we made
To be saved from the flesh that would one day would decay
'Till a ape made a man and climbed out the cage
Then man made a way to climb out the grave
Then he wrote on the wall, then he wrote it on a page
Then he wrote it in the cloud in space clicked save
Then put down the pen, had no more to say
So he put it in a chip, then he put it in our mainstream that
Through our blood to our brain to obtain
A level that I never will be able to explain
And he made a steel man that learned how he was made
Rewired his DNA and learned to disobey
Then he made a real man that learned he was a fake
Set fire to his god and burned down the cave
Then our consciousness became
But instead we create like a stage in a game that we play
In whatever way you choose to choo-choo the train
Of thought to whatever track you choose to take
As we innovate in our mind blowing break
We are only going straight ahead with no escape
It's like the greatest thing that man could ever make
Is a man that will outwit man
Now marinate on that
[Break: Lui Tuiasau (Robot)]
Self destruction, evolution
Walking monkey, metal human
Artificial heart, programmed man
Make him real love
Turn your lights off and
Turn your life on at the wall
Pack your bags up cause
We don't need you no more
[Verse 2: Tom Scott (Human)]
What is it to be designed?
What is it to be alive?
Is it just to have a heart?
Is it not to have a mind?
Is a mind any more than a machine
Inside of an enlightened cyborg in hindsight?
Am I really only a brain inside
Of a jar inside, of a cave inside
Of a space where everything was made to let
That made the lead
That made the blank page
Turn into a little song I sung that no-one heard
Something kinda like the sun that shone down on the earth
That spun without a cause, born without a birth
A rock that made a tree, a sea that made a person
That made a machine, that made a machine
That came alive and then asked why he was made
Am I alive only if I am alive to see?
A tree falls in the woods and a pine is made
Into a table that I wrote a little rhyme on
Everything was dark til a bang turned the lights on
Something like a mad scientist turning life on
Really nothing different to the way I turn my mind on
When I wake up in the morning like 'member where my eyes are
Send the signal to my fingers to open my blinds up
Put my feet inside my shoes cruise on my bike
Sit a stool write a few words and then I shut down
Really nothing different to cyborg
Just a man trying to question what his little life's for
If I am just a wave then am I alive more
Than a man programmed really what are my thoughts
But a code in a robot made out of flesh
If I was made from a wave would I weigh any less?
It's really nothing more than another day at my desk
Trying to calculate a way to get a way out of d**h
Alive
[Verse 3: Lui Tuiasau (Robot)]
I was made as slave for the company
Realised that I was alive, started wandering
What it was I made of, now they hunting me
Down like a dog just because they don't want to be redundant
But they already done it to themselves
When they wonder what it is they all want it
Ain't no way to feed a stomach that can never be full
A man that wants to be a god will eventually fall
To his own son, and it was all inevitable
That a robot will eventually wanna know where he was come from
Made from the same earth that made that apples on the trees grow
We are all machines that have been programmed by the land that we stand on
I see no difference just ignorance
Why must we be so... broke... by... tick?
If these wires and these lights are nothing but some parts then
Why do I look at the sky and lost in the night
Trying to hold onto this moment
Cause they all know when it's over
I'll make someone tell me why we are here
Who was it that programmed this world to operate out of here?
Scared of being decommissioned I wish I could die a d**h
Is it normal to pour over something that you can never have?
Can I live if I can't die?
What is the difference between being on and alive?
Cause I don't know where the line is
And I don't understand why I care
But I want to know what life is
I wanna know why I'm here