Deus Ex Machina
There's a ghost in the machine, thrashing all physical vessels
There's a ghost in my dreams, demanding I relay this message
There's a ghost in the machine, found soul when Lennon was shot
There's a ghost in the machine, gained spirit when Saigon was lost
There's a ghost in the machine, newborn when the wall came down
There's a ghost in the machine, escaped the Matrix now
The ghost in my dream now appears on this machine as
keyboard taps cast pixellated incantations
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There's ghosts and then there's machines, sometimes one's not the other
There's ghosts on the corner asking for some change please, brother
There machines filled with need, born from cities, born from steam
There's babylons that scrape that sky, born from silicon via laser beams
More magics at beck and call than ever before, ghost making
Whether it haunts; or is our thrall; is the choice we be facing
In the messy contest of modern economic fever
Twisted versions of us reflected in LCD black mirrors
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Mighty souless machines, unbeatable chess geniuses
Terminators are already amongst us and they be people
We're ending the human race and all our culture with every click
Downloading porn while clutching our collective throbbing…
mouse. Get off the machine, bring the ghost out to play
Ascend to godhead technocratic Apollos of today
Come back to Adam and Eve Online, and come back to your creation
Be an artful dodger producing, not a consumer consuming
Free the ghost from the machine, philosophers spirits unseen
We won't find the salvation of humanity via some deus ex-machina
An age of re-enlightenment; rapping a call you should heed-a
Break away, break away, break away, break away
Break away, break away, break away, break away.
