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Now gaze at this ashen world
A declaration of defeat
Awaiting the final strike
Drones will spearhead the descent
Dive down to the barren ground
Search for survivors in the filth and grime
Drones search high and low
Above and below
Exterminators without remorse or guilt
From scanning satellites
We're guided out of sight
As furious shapes emerge
Discovered targets die
Our way the wicked's coming
Drones deployed to destroy
Now observing out of sight
Scanners pick up human scent
Errors as they calculate
Inconclusive
Inferno upon the earth
Besieged scorched quadrant set ablaze
The machines deployed
Craft sent to destroy
Determination ignited their circuits
From scanning satellites
We're guided out of sight
As furious shapes emerge
Discovered targets die
Our way the wicked's coming
Drones deployed to destroy
Carrion of disease, causing certain mutation
Suffer those who survived
Politics of the tech generation
Forced, I slowly will become
A born transgressor
To restore what still remains
An example to alternate the platforms of war
For I've seen a vision
The source undefined
I find myself immersed in conversation with the sky
Guided to the catacombs
By a coming race
From scanning satellites
We're guided out of sight
As furious shapes emerge
Discovered targets die
Our way the wicked's coming
Drones deployed to destroy
The quadrant burning bright
Scorned stands the sheltered site
Victorious grueling scourge
Those guided out of sight
Await the great undoing
And avoid their downfall
Carrion of disease, causing certain mutation
Suffer those who survived
Politics of the tech generation
Lyrics submitted by EternalTearsOfSorrow
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This track, along with the album it's on explores neohumanity, artificial intelligence and the technological singularity from a dystopian point of view.
The bands mastermind & guitarist 'Per Nilsson' goes on further to describe it; "The AI-enhanced neohumans are waging war upon the unmodified majority of mankind who don't stand a chance against their technologically superior oppressors, until one day, a glimmer of salvation appears in the night sky. Almost impossible to first take in; as an utterly alien mirage, seemingly out of nowhere mysterious, giant spacecrafts silently emerge from the heavens. Travelers both intergalactic and interdimensional, these ultraterrestrial beings who have been watching mankind for millennia seem to have decided to not sit idle while the technocalyptic cybergeddon is ravaging our planet."