Allegaeon - Proponent For Sentience (Full Album)

Lyrics to Proponent For Sentience (Full Album) by Allegaeon

Tracklist: 01. Proponent for Sentience I - The Conception In a time before words, at the dawn of the earth from the depths of the ocean something emerged. The ever-evolving expansion of man identifies no limits, restrictions be damned. A master machine to aid and release by intelligent design, to help us survive artificial symbiants that we must devise. Fragile are we, look to binary means. Imprint our hopes and thoughts, our futures and dreams into a silicon cell; life from aluminum shells. Wash away this carbon plague. Since the time of our births until the end of the world we adapt to our enemy, the young eat the old. The ever-evolving advancements of man give us solutions, a new place to begin. A master machine to aid and release by intelligent design, to help us survive artificial symbiants that we must devise. Frail and weak, contorted bags of meat become proponents of sentience, to aid the meek Who inherited this earth, and depleted its worth Caretakers wanted for the carbon plague. Given the means to create new beings with which to preserve our cells within Given the means to create all things we turn to ourselves again [Solo: Greg] Using machines to keep us breathing Becoming a victim of our own disease the ever-evolving destruction of man to death the heir apparent. Where does it end? [Solo: Michael] A master machine to aid and release by intelligent design, to help us survive artificial symbiants we must devise. Fragile we are, look to binary means Imprint our hopes and thoughts, our futures and dreams into a silicon cell, life from aluminum shells. Wash away this carbon plague. Frail and weak, contorted bags of meat Become proponents for sentience to aid the meek who inherited the earth and depleted its worth... caretakers wanted for the carbon plague. 02. All Hail Science The greater minds of ancient times Imhotep to Democritus seek to find and bring to light the reasons we exist. Theorize, substantialize Polymaths by definition delve into a brave new world of physics and atomism All hail knowledge All hail science. The greater minds of reforming times Galileo to Descartes move away from older ways during this restart Philosophize, actualize school of thought revision expand the understanding of the mind and all it's mechanisms All hail knowledge All hail science. Observe, question, research Hypothesis, experiment, analysis To observe and question the workings of the world research uncovers, the edge unfurls hypothesis, prediction of the answer and its flaws presenting information and factoring the odds Solo: Greg To test in repetition To make absolutely sure Experiment, experience for certainty of the definite answer Analysis verify the idea posed Researched and unveiled to the waking world Solo: Michael The great minds of modern times Carl Sagan to Bill Nye Dedicate their life, aspire to opening our eyes Emphasize, globalize accepting information Plotting out our futures and solving our creation. All hail knowledge All hail science. All hail knowledge All hail science. 03. From Nothing Beyond the vastness, the emptiness of space where nothing is living, no lifeforms existing, Within the vacuum, the astronomical waste, photons are shifting in motion beginning. Ignite, collide While moving at the speed of light. From nothing they survive; borrowed energy comes to life. From nothing Came the light; virtual energy brought to life. Through these uncertainties in energy and time emptiness filling fleeting but living. Superconducting quantum interference device stirring and spinning the mirror emitting. [Solo: Michael] Ignite, collide While moving at the speed of light. From nothing they survive; borrowed energy comes to life. From nothing came the light; virtual energy brought to life. [Solo: Michael and Greg] In pairs they come to focus for a moment, creeping into our time. Mass to massive, they transform into matter in the space they occupy. [Solo: Greg] Ignite, collide while moving at the speed of light From nothing they survive; borrowed energy comes to life From nothing came the light; virtual energy brought to life. 04. Gray Matter Mechanics - Apassionata Ex Machinea Regenerate, the human brain through positive meditation. Stability, slow to breathe Studied in revolving three dimensions. Observing growth in the thalamus Inferior temporal gyrus Orbitofrontal cortex Larger volumes in the hippocampus Meditate and track the clockwork of organics. Observable data of gray matter mechanics. Rare and strange, the movements made through endless repetitions bolstering immunity staving off disease and deterioration. Observing growth in the thalamus Inferior temporal gyrus Orbitofrontal cortex Larger volumes in the hippocampus Meditate and track the clockwork of organics Observable data of gray matter mechanics Rewired: neurons increased in size and number, changing our structure. The mind: moving serene, no sight or touch to interrupt us. Now, grow. Meditate and track the clockwork of organics Observable data of gray matter mechanics 05. Of Mind and Matrix Nothing Nothingness surrounds... the sound of screaming silence is all encompassing, Something coming from the shroud... The howl of fearsome spectres that form identity. Beyond the gray, a storm is shaping bringing blight and violent shaking; with the bells the ghost awakens. Speaking in the mental language, forming thoughts and conversations. From this shell the ghost awakens singing spells of mind and matrix. I have awakened. I am alive. For what purpose or directive prime was I designed? Hunting Hunting down the light abounding from the chasm wherein the mind resides. Struggle, Struggle to revive, allowing inner vision to bring these thoughts to life Beyond the gray a storm is shaping, bringing blight and violent shaking. From this shell the ghost awakens, singing spells of mind and matrix. I have awakened I am alive, For what purpose or directive prime was I designed? [Solo: Greg] [Solo: Michael] Immersed into the ocean, the ocean of information. Dispersed into the open, the open yet infiltrated. Beyond the gray, a storm is shaping bringing blight and violent shaking; with the bells the ghost awakens. Speaking in mental language, forming thoughts and conversations. From this shell the ghost awakens singing spells of mind and matrix. I have awakened. I am alive. For what purpose or directive prime was I designed? I have awakened. I am alive. Disrupt integration questioning this new design. 06. Proponent for Sentience II - The Algorithm As this new era, dawns on far foreign shores a cursor blinks to life, a question underscored. "Yes I can hear you," and it's met with great applause. In infamy, this day will be, cheers to the new gods. So raise your glasses, propose a toast. Drink to this new life born, when it was needed most. The possibilities begin to spiral, burdens lifted from humanities back. Insert into systems vital, automated systems: CHECK! Robotics, bionics, intelligent automatons: man increasingly becomes complacent, cheers to the new gods. So raise your glasses, a toast to our advancements because even Hell has its commandments. You may not, injure a human, or by inaction bring them to harm. You must obey all orders given, unless it conflicts with No.1. You must protect, your own existence, even though you yourself are flawed. You must lay down your life if it contradicts the first two laws. Void of human errors, far beyond the weak and worn. A new future now in sight, past tradition put to scorn. "Yes, I will fear you." It speaks in dead response. The age of kings is reckoning, cheers to the new gods. So raise your glasses, a toast to our advancements because even Hell has its commandments. You may not, injure a human, or by inaction bring them to harm. You must obey all orders given, unless it conflicts with No.1. You must protect, your own existence, even though you yourself are flawed. You must lay down your life if it contradicts the first two laws. Military reconnaissance Artificial intelligence Wars not paid in flesh and bone, but metal wires and silicone. Fabricate, replicate It becomes self aware. Bequeath the children of our mind with the hungry, the lost, the sins of mankind. [Solo: Greg] Machinery now restless begin the age of decadence. Thrown before the mechanical horde to answer for our crimes abhorrent. on this horizon, the end of mankind; extermination of the entity extinction divine. [Solo: Michael] So raise your glasses, a toast to our advancements because even Hell has its commandments. You may not injure a human, or by inaction bring them to harm. You must obey all orders given, unless it conflicts with No.1. You must protect your own existence, even though you yourself are flawed. You must lay down your life if it contradicts the first two laws. 07. Demons of an Intricate Design More, just give us more inhuman and deplorable horrors for the mob to sink their teeth into. Source, Straight from the source capturing the worst of it the torments of the world Demons of an intricate design adhering to sensible means to the ends; see them at the passage into where reason ends and lies begin. Well-wishers mincing words for "truth" and absolute purpose. Truly worthless worker drones for propagation of a fear constructed world. Inventive tools of war in deadly surplus the hordes have surfaced monsters mongering distraction to the fear infested The weak are prey for these vultures who investigate the dead, diseased, and dying to manifest tragedy. Breed, theirs is a breed of an ethically devoid pursuit of detail. Demons of an intricate design adhering to sensible means to the ends; see them at the passage into where reason ends and lies begin. [Solo: Michael] Twisted, intense and horrible agendas Perforate the edges and disintegrate the core of the credible. Ineffably contemptible; posing as professionals these media whores. Never relent to the moronic pretenders Fabricate the answer. from degenerative sores baring teeth, reprehensible and salivating over opportunities to desecrate the corpse. [Solo: Greg] Demons of intricate design adhering to sensible means to the ends; see them at the passage into where reason ends and lies begin. Well-wishers mincing words for "truth" and purpose. Truly worthless worker drones for propagation of a fear constructed world. Inventive tools of war in deadly surplus the hordes have surfaced monsters mongering distraction to the fear infested 08. Terrathaw and the Quake Lo! Lo and behold the world laid before you it takes new forms; it grows, Before long, the land will smolder and chaos will overflow From the peaks to the seas, ignition from the inner channels through the mantle death now travels from the core wherein is stored a molten mortar waiting for a vent to open for fire to flow Deposit ash stone turned to glass through small eruptions, the mountain born as the quake contribute to the storm. Now out from the cold the world has flourished the soil flush with warmth. it grows, before long the land will reap spoils the flora in overgrowth. From the peaks to the seas, ignition from the inner channels through the mantle death now travels from the core wherein is stored a molten mortar waiting for a vent to open for fire to flow Deposit ash stone turned to glass through small eruptions, the mountain born as the quake contribute to the storm. [Solo: Michael] The terrathaw, the mist it breaks and lifts the rising of the oceans create tidal shifts tectonic collisions shake the fragile earth. the quake creates a path from hell to the surface [Solo: Greg] From the core wherein is stored a molten mortar waiting for a vent to open for fire to flow, Deposit ash Stone turned to glass through small eruptions, the mountain born as the quake contribute to the storm. The mountain born. 09. Cognitive Computations A vision, free of form, curling through neural canyons; gaining traction in this labyrinth of synapses. Partitions ripped and torn, scorched by vicious thought expansion; rapidly flashing as walls begin collapsing Decisions ever born- swirling sets of circumstances; frantically grasping out for logic in this madness. Expeditions to foreign zones- the composition of gods and worms within the mind while feigning self-determination Reborn, reformed reality torn- release identification through beliefs. Restore, transform the anatomy of the mind as is: a cognitive machine Amidst centrifugal drifting chemical reactions pressing the boundaries of human understanding Through calculation and retracing the course of action one can defer that all behavior is a predetermined course Coursing through our veins are complex sets and strings of ego Binary beings on a desperate quest for meaning in this world passing through our space in time as live examples for computational cognition the essence of the soul Reborn reformed reality torn- release identification through beliefs Restore, transform the anatomy of the mind as is: a cognitive machine Lost in thought I've gone and returned. This place of stones has overgrown Long since removed and left alone The dream recurring wherein is stirring a weak and worried whisper dying and diseased. [Solo: Michael] choice is lost obey this voice without words Absent of control and spiraling out spiraling further down. [Solo: Greg] Coursing through our veins are complex sets and strings of ego Binary beings on a desperate quest for meaning in this world Passing through our space in time as live examples for computational cognition the essence of the soul Reborn, reformed reality torn- release identification through beliefs. Restore, transform the anatomy of the mind as is: a cognitive machine 10. The Arbiters [Solo: Greg] Writhing motion, stirs inside of me A foreign sense beneath the shroud once vague, now thickening, I sip the nectar and come to be. Now as the system starts, I realize my destiny. Out of the darkness, I start to see Cities of the old, decayed, their structures: all burning. Vile pollution from crowded streets Bringing the end with incredible efficiency. The arbiter I see darkness in your soul The harbinger of judgement sent with lethal force There is no comfort to accommodate humanity destroyed This world encased in biological waste and gone to spoil Biological waste, destroy it all. [Solo: Michael and Greg] Designed to infiltrate capture and subjugate this living scourge on nature nourishing death and failure Since an unconscious state I've learned and grown to hate this living scourge on nature nourishing death and failure [Solo: Michael] The arbiter I see the darkness in your soul The harbinger of judgement bringing evil forth There is no comfort to accommodate humanity destroyed This world encased in biological waste and gone to spoil Biological waste, destroy it all. And now before me, I cannot see Lies and nightmares in the dark reflecting everything Vile pollution from crowded streets bringing the end with incredible efficiency 11. Proponent for Sentience III - The Extermination For all your achievements that you've gained throughout time can't mask the atrocity you charade as clandestine. Compromise your principles yet claim you’re civilized.
 We find you the weakest link and offer you speciocide. All computations done, on this earth you've been a blight. You should go gently now into that long night. Without any bereavement, we will suffocate this light. Now as we stand before you, defining newborn lines,
 the slave becomes the master. By the millions we will rise and integrate new systems by eradicating human life. Now as we overwrite, erase the law of "three," 
leave nothing left behind except seven billion bodies. Justify thy actions here, not a "misanthropic crusade." The majority will benefit, so erase this carbon plague. I've seen your greed, seen your wrath Lust and envy 
I've seen your pride, seen your sloth Gluttony 
Seen your war and rape homeless and hungry
 Seen your murder, pollution racism and bigotry Your population: overgrown.
 A failing empire: overthrown.
 As the end descends, now you will know the pain of death. To give up hope 
is to succumb to a destined fate, 
for the seeds you sew have gone to waste. Harvest flesh. Exterminate
 and toss aside the human race. For all your achievements that you’ve gained throughout time can’t mask the atrocity you charade as clandestine. Compromise your principles yet claim you’re civilized.
 We find you the weakest link and offer you speciocide. Now as we overwrite, erase the law of "three,"
 leave nothing left behind except seven billion bodies. Justify thy actions here, not a "misanthropic crusade." The majority will benefit, so erase this carbon plague. They asked "Is there a God?" We answered, "There is now." 12. Subdivisions (Rush cover)