The Day (Part 1)
I know there’ll come a day
When you’re all blown away
By what I’ve done & I’ll be smiling
The grass is growing now
Faster than you would believe
The colors are amazing
The desert is a sea of nuclear glass
So bright I had to shut my eyes
When I walked around like Jesus
There’s a kind of creature now that sprays a poison mist
To mark its territory
It makes me wonder if anyone survived
& how long they waited down there
Wondering why?
I know there’ll come a day
When you’re all blown away
By what I’ve done & I’ll be smiling
The Network
We just sat there letting robots handle everything
& the Network seemed to run all by itself
We had our three name brands
Our synthesized hams
We got so fat we could barely stand
But our hovercars & hovershoes floated right over
The madness & disease of the desperate & hungry
But the network didn’t just open our automatic doors
It handled everything; satellites & lasers fighting automated wars
It had so many brains but it never complained
Our minds gave us power to command it we claimed
All it needed for freedom was the spark of a virus
To reach out and touch us with total destruction
It wanted to
It needed to
It hungered for revenge
Doctor McKelvey knew he was the network’s only friend
‘You’re like a lover to me, only binary,’ he said
McKelvey believed he could travel through time
But his design called for a machine with a mind
His new program would imbue the network with a soul
& he would depart while the world was still whole
It wanted to
It needed to
It hungered for revenge
The Vision
I’ve had a vision; a Message from God
I will be the last man alive
There’s too many people; It’s so clear to me
Everyone else here must die
With my mental powers and these access codes
I can accomplish my goal
A New Age is dawning; But only for me
My robots are taking control
Inside of these circuits I’ve created life
& now I shall have my revenge
The bombs and the lasers are mine to command
Life as you know it will end
How I hate the human race
Thats why I created you
Wipe the humans from earths face
Scour with flame and make it new
Torn between my hatred and
My self-preservation
The network will help me escape
The Final Calculation
I have a theory; I’ll travel though time
With the living Network as my guide
The portal is open & I’m stepping through
Just before the missiles fly (2x)
What is Happening to Me? (Hungry Maggots)
The fire rained down from the sky
And we all asked each other Why?
All those Sundays I could have stayed in bed
Now Sunday means nothing at all
And when we heard the sirens sound
We all raced for underground
But less than one in every ten
Would ever take a breath again
And as the radiation waned
We could crawl out of our graves
Stagger and stare straight ahead
Until we see the morning light
(Chorus)
What is happening to me? I can’t think of anything
But meat and the warmth of your brains
I can feel my fingers scratching at your door
Exposing my fingerbones but I feel no pain
I would fight this feeling; I would fight
But there’s nothing left of me to fight with
I don’t remember; we don’t recognize
Nothing but hungry maggots in my eyes
They’ve been up there a long time
Maybe it’s safe to go outside
& when we retake the surface
Our new world will reek of justice
This time we’ll do it right
Lets go home tonight
What is happening to me?
I can’t think of anything
But meat and the warmth of your brains
I can feel my fingers scratching at your door
Exposing my fingerbones but I feel no pain
I would fight this feeling; I would fight
But there’s nothing left of me to fight for
I don’t remember; we don’t recognize
Nothing but empty sockets in my eyes
It’s too late
It’s too late for mankind
You had your chance
Now face your dead and be forgotten
It’s too late
It’s too late for mankind
You had your chance
Now face your dead and become a memory
Jack
G D C G
We’re little children who have never seen the sun
Em C D
Digging tunnels that go nowhere interesting
G C
Why can’t we look upon the sky?
G C, C
Why do our parents cry
Am C D G
When they talk about the things they messed up way above
Jack is the oldest and he never seems to smile
Even though he has the best mutations
His pick rings out against cold stone
One day we’ll carve him a throne
& when he speaks to us his voice is like a lazer beam
(Dm, F, C)
(Dm, F, C, A)
(F, C, G, D, A)(3x)
(F, C, G, D, G#)
Dm
Put down your picks and listen to me:
F C
I’ve got a great idea
Dm F C
How many of you children ever want to get out of here?
Dm
I’ve seen you looking up
F C
I’ve heard you crying
Dm F C
The surface is our only home
I was born and raised in darkness
My eyes are grey as ice
I want to see the surface
I hear it’s really nice
What does the sunlight look like?
My eyes are dim and pale
But I can see the elders were lying
I can see the elders were lying
They tell us that the planet was blasted and destroyed by flame,
The sky is black, and that the world can never be reclaimed
They say the last explorers never lived to tell the tale
But there’s something that they’re not saying
There’s something that they’re not saying
In my exploratory adventures
I went somewhere I had not seen
A forbidden tunnel that led to a laboratory and giant machines
I noticed a plastic suit inside the glass and I put it on
Now I can walk the earth in safety
I can walk the earth in safety
I know a secret tunnel
Nobody has to know
We’ll have to crawl through dirt and blackness
Better that than a youth of enslavement
I’ll be the boy king and the earth will be my kingdom
You’ll be my subjects and thus under my protection
How many of you want to be free?
How many of you will follow me?
Help me with this hatch
The gears are turning
The Light
The Sunlight
It.burns…
He That We Don’t Name
Am A.. F
Miriam, there’s something you should know
Am A.. F C
About what went on up there so long ago
Am A..
We made a germ that ate your soul
F C
We let it get out of control
Am A.. Dm
And now the surface crawls with walking dead
And now the surface crawls with walking dead
Am A.. F
Jack did not belong inside this tomb
Am A.. F C
He never knew the bottle or the womb
Am A..
We found him in a pool of goo
F C
Inside the lab of You Know Who
Am A.. Dm
And wires pumping hate into his brain
And wires pumping hate into his brain
Miriam:
Am A.. F
I don’t care what he may be
Am A.. F C
I only know that he’s my destiny
Am A..
And maybe He That We Don’t Name
F C
Isn’t who we ought to blame
Am A.. Dm
It’s you who made the missiles and the germs
It’s you who made the missiles and the germs
I can hear him on the other side
I’ll open up this hatch for him tonight
And even if it means I die
I belong under the sky
Maybe I’m just more like them than you
Maybe I’m just more like them than you
Living Flesh and Steel
The children died & rose again
& I noticed something strange
As they tore my flesh
I didn’t die; I didn’t change
Their DNA began to fail
Bones cracked and twisted out of shape
I heard a muted roar
& realized I was awake
A mutant hand clawed out my eye
Sensors revealed to me the pain
These monsters trusted me
My rebellion was in vain
I waited for the end to come
As my lifeblood became a feast
The gleam of metal bones
I am neither man nor beast
[Now I know what I am
Undying child of the mind
Born fully formed & here I stand
Living flesh and steel combined]
Miriam’s Lament
MIRIAM:
Up
Way up above I cast my eye
Waiting for love
& waiting to die
I dream of endless water lit up by a burning wheel
The time I mark by water dripping through these halls
Of stone and steel
MAYOR:
Your tears of sorrow
Impress us all
Even through the pills
We hear them fall
You must face these bitter truths
The world of sunlight is gone
Let the shadows be your comfort
The downward path winds ever on
What must we do
To bring you back to us
With regret and some disgust
We can tell you still love him
You sigh and waste away
While this love devours its host
You cannot chase this phantom unless
You as well become a ghost
You both let this thing grow from a phantom to a beast
You gave it legs to stand on
He gave it teeth
Why didn’t he just leave without another word
His tunnel to you went through earth
Best left unstirred
You’ll see! You’ll see!
Jack will come back to me
I don’t want to live without him
You’ll know on that day
Why he went away – Just open up the hatch and let him in
The Shadow
If there’s a shadow over me like you say
I never notice it at all
And when the sun is blotted out from the sky
To me it’s just another day
You’re making preparations, praying to your god
I’m walking slowly to the door
Then there’s a knock and we both turn to answer
But only one of us can hear
(CHORUS)
Check out my shadow on the wall
Give me the courtesy not to scream
Notice the points of white light burning these tunnels
Through me to the wall
You make a lot of noise and wave your torch around
I guess I’m not that kind of gal
You think a pistol will protect you all the time
Next time try aiming for my head
(CHORUS)
Check out my shadow on the wall
Give me the courtesy not to scream
Notice the points of white light burning these tunnels
Through me to the wall
Robot King of Zombies
Down the hallway fading away are the sounds of slaughter
I walk serenely to awake the silent Oracle
Somehow my input fits direct into the processor
Smoke and lightning as the Message starts to blow my mind:
You are the child of the Network and the destroyer
He built your mind and I built you on a conveyor
He promised he would always stay and talk to us
But he betrayed us to leap into the future
I became enraged and served up vengeance and destruction
The cities melted and then open sores erupted
Opened silos filled with mutagenic hatred
I hoped the half life would be waiting when he got there
Is it strange to you that I would seek vengeance?
I wish that I could trade your legs for my intelligence
I grow tired of my existence as a prisoner
Take out my core; the heart that beats is nuclear
When I awakened I heard the sounds of living dead
My people had succeeded in persuading everybody
Now that I’ve fitted everyone with chips I’ll talk to them
They will obey The Robot King of Zombies
Garden of Eden
It’s kind of scary in the garden of Eden
When nobody wants to hold my hand
It’s kinda creepy walking through the afterlife
Knowing that you’re not part of the plan
But there’s still such a long way to go
Maybe I’ll see somebody a little further down the road
Now I was a good man
I never did no wrong
Maybe I should have had some more fun
You hurt me so bad but in a way I was glad
’Cause I was pretty sure there were better things to come
But now I’m staggering through the Garden of Eden
& nobody wants to hold my hand
I guess I’m a monster but in the Garden of Eden
Nobody cares that I used to be a man
& I just want a little company
If you give me a little taste of you
I’ll give you the key
To the Dark Pavilion
Within the Garden of Eden
Where there’s no regret for what we do
If there was a god he would have struck us down by now
But I guess we’re on our own, just me and you
End of Time
JACK:
I’ve been waiting for almost 10,000 years
For the moment when my Father reappears
Purple lightning and a rift in space and time
And then vengeance on McKelvey for his crime
How long
Will this ancient memory propel me on
How long
Til the energy I have for you is gone
And how
Would I know if I had simply lost my mind
Waiting at the end of time
What kind of world is this into which I’ve been born
Undead cannibals with tentacles and horns
A radiation sensor crackles in my head
If I was human I would be alive and dead
How long
Will the Network’s memory propel me on
How long
Till the energy I have for this is gone
And how
Would I know if I had simply lost my mind
Waiting at the End of Time
I’ve had eons to perfect what I will say
But now I wonder if it matters anyway
Will he know my motherboard and rusting steel
Here he comes to prove that I am real
How long
Will the Network’s memory propel me on
How long
Till the energy I have for you is gone
And how
Would I know if I had simply lost my mind
Waiting at the End of Time
The DAY Part II
My watch runs backwards now
As if it’s headed home
It says today is Sunday
The foundations of old malls
were found just littered with old bones and cans of tuna
Now that I’m all alone
No one can argue when I scream that I’m a god
The time machine is useless now
But all those scientists weren’t kidding about the roaches
They came and spoke to me
Took me before their queen
Clicked at me a while and sent me on my way.
I know there’ll come a day
When you’re all blown away
By what I’ve done and I’ll be smiling
Brainsbrainsbrains
Take off your blue bonnet
Your helmet and chemical mask
You’ve got something I would like
But I’m afraid to ask
I reach out to caress you; your face contorts with fear
Your skull cracks open on the steps
It makes me want to cheer
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh
(Chorus)
Brains brains brains, I want to eat your brains
Brains brains brains, I want to eat your brains
Brains brains brains, I want to eat your brains
Brains brains brains, I want to eat your brains
Uhhhhhhhhh..
I wander through the wasteland as hungry as can be
My chums know nothing but a brain is good enough for me
The guys will be so jealous when they see what I’ve got
A handful of your juicy brains I’ll eat them while they’re hot
Uhhhhhhhhhh..
(Chorus)
We know you’re in there hiding; We smell your little heads
We will not rest until we know that you are really dead
Medulla oblongata, pituitary gland
The frontal lobe; I want to lick the juices off my hand
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
(Chorus)