Originally featured on the Industrial Machine Music collaboration where proceeds go to
StopAAPIHate.org (
industrialmachinemusic.bandcamp.com/album/industrial-machine-music-tactical-resistance-ii) this release includes the original and instrumental version as well as three remixes by Craig Saunders as our collaboration project, M∃TAMATIK (
shoknova.bandcamp.com/album/grey-matter)
The song is about giving yourself over to technology (in this case, nanomachines) to transcend, upgrade, make the world better and improve yourself despite humanity's fears of the loss of individuality, of technology changing your identity and innate fear of the unknown then self destruction when confronted with the annihilation of one or the other.
Lyrics:
I put a thing inside my head, it tells me what to do
I gave it control and it's makes me into something new
Tearing through the walls, it eats all my pain
It makes me better, I'm not who I was
Was I ever even human anyway?
This flesh and form is not what it seems, a freak to obliterate
Your hatred of what's different won't hesitate
You can't understand what it feels like
Gotta burn it all down, gotta find a way, to justify the match strike
Nanotech resolve your fear
I am better, I am new
You're something old, imperfect too
You cannot win, that much is true
I'll destroy myself for all of you
Build me up and tear me down
Treading cross unbroken ground
Transformation makes no sound
Technology so profound