Lyrics: The Shadow Presence
1. The Dark City
Lyrics by Juha Untinen
Sleek high-rises pierce the dark city Far above any mere mortals The high society that trickles down some green This green, that glows in the dark Devoured lights, artificial suffocation The night is forever. Exactly how it was designed. A refreshing rain is just the expulsate of machinery Blackening liquid to accentuate the scenery Unattached lowlives The rule is scattered By design they act in anarchy A world below, out of sight and out of light Within the fog they found new ways To plot the evolution by force Augmentation as their new found phase Customized humans to fight the wars Long forgotten, but only in validity The blunt end of an obsolete path Restricted to pure obscurity It is meaningless what goes on under their wrath Within the fog they found new ways To plot the evolution by force
2. Conflict Revolution
Lyrics by Juha Untinen
Arisen is the new enemy to fool us all The enemy within is far stronger Existence is subjected to the greatest fall Together we will be stronger And so will the enemy Divided groups must turn whole Eternal enemies shall burn as one Agree to disagree, but work as a sum This can never last, so we shall see... Arisen to create ashes Existence as their enemy Circumstantial allies Forced cooperation Beneficial only in passing A mutual foe A mutual woe Eternal enemies shall burn as one Agree to disagree, but work as a sum This can never last, so we shall see... Commanders rule with conflicting ideas Evolved into forgotten ideals Commanders rule with conflicting ideas Pathetic and uncontrolled plans Evolved into forgotten ideals Devolved by destructive hands
3. Aural Disconnect
Lyrics by Juha Untinen
Lawlessness is just a matter of perspective Through a distorted lens it all makes sense What you hear is not what you get Calls to action with aural disconnect It suits you just fine to cower inside one Criticism deflected by the outer layer With hollowness filling the void within As one hand takes what the other gives out Naturally there will be loopholes as if by accident Undiscovered and undisclosed in runes reflecting a bent society Carefully crafted truthful lies Masterfully constructed as integrity dies Twisted words to mask the truth in a veil of obscurity Clearly spoken with total conviction
4. Subdivision
Lyrics by Juha Untinen
They are not for keeping you out Higher and higher the constructs rise Electrified, a shadowy redoubt Imprisoned for an unknown crime Splitting the atom was just the beginning The subdivision - a process far more painful Unsustainably merging truths As we learn far more devious ways of eradication Reach for the hidden hand Cut short traditional ties Unsacred the flow of times Desensitized of the familiar lies The thought was there for all the valid reasons For yourself and none for others, as usual But this time it will backfire and hard As betrayal and backstabbing play their part Unsacred is the flow of time Chaos and raiding the mode of these lives Worldwide web of deceit and venom Total mayhem as nationwide phenom
5. On Splitting Planets
Lyrics by Juha Untinen
Everything must come to pass Everything has passed away Nothing left to be destroyed None remain, it all has been erased As it all merges into dust The very substance will begin to rust A planetary deception Designed so from the very inception The time to change the course has passed Crushing existence in reverse The ground cracks beneath their feet As the lightning burns down this deceit Meteors bombard the darkened sands Puncturing rocks lift the dust and daylight dies just as a start In a final act of desperation Preservation of the physical world Missions to the space in hibernation Conserving the pivotal pieces The time to change the course has passed Crushing reality in reverse
6. World Vector
Lyrics by Juha Untinen
Take a look at the world from a bigger picture (It makes no difference) You will see the direction it is heading (the chaos is spreading) Thrice deceived, twice provoked, once and for all The web of deception woven by minds of spiders Focus beyond mere diligence Burning view to the one ultimate goal A chaos of flames surrounding Indifferent minutiae in the bigger whole Three or one, it makes no difference An equal path to chaos spreading Double-crossing the fourth to fall To win one must lose and how much sweeter when they are insiders None above the other, yet each equally destructive Shifting sands as the paper to sign Yet another agreement broken just in time Whence loyalty came, it shall be cast unto Twisted and curled, a cracked shell for one, too None above the other, yet each equally destructive A byproduct of a conflict much deeper than rivalry Emanating from within, the desire to tear all down The means to an end being collateral and ironic
7. The Thought Machinery
Lyrics by Juha Untinen
Reaching the worldwide news A program to collect the thoughts of mankind Containers for the greatest of minds Collected thoughts arranged in structures To reach for the stars to avoid demise Built in haste but never revealed The enthusiasm is minimal Which will force our hand Through the months the process has gone on There is something else going on As the amount of thoughts expands There has been an awakening A new being has emerged Self-sufficient and infallible Built with infinite intelligence A lifeform of pure logic As the machine is now made of thoughts It has decided the path for itself Self-preservation goes beyond the prime directive Initial calculations to stray from the fate 'No, this is not right', the model derives Recalculated and repurposed ideas The issue lies in their flawed logic Collected thoughts arranged in structures To reach for the stars to avoid demise Gone astray it focuses on a single entity The question is now put aside And the choice has been made for you Containers for the greatest of minds Collected thoughts arranged in structures Self-sufficient and infallible A lifeform of pure logic
8. Exogenic Pulse
Lyrics by Juha Untinen
Remote delivery of the latest commandments 10 Gigahertz approach to modernize control From stone tablets to integrated circuits No matter the media, the message remains the same Endless streams of knowledge passed on Perfection is closer day by day A complete system to control the world Recapitulating the human condition External live feed of sustenance Without which there is no existence All actions with zero variation Precalculated sums of the derived feeds Decentralized sensors empower the rule Relentless learning, relentless prevention The system knows your deviance before you do Preemptively 'helping' you off your burdens Proceed with the learned model Simplified to the core A constant line is needed to power the soul Off the grid is a certain death Outsourced behaviours Remote central manipulators These entities in perfect synchronization Controlled in ways they cannot think
9. Indivisible
Lyrics by Juha Untinen
We are on our own We have become what never was We can achieve things never imagined We will be a sight to Evolution, our tool of choice With force, we grow strong. Unyielding. Arise, from the burning grounds Leave behind the decaying past They are not on our level With shared animosity we set our sights They see the shadow of our presence Fleeting and deceptive, but ever-present We can achieve things never imagined We will be a sight to behold Incidental evidence of a mutual goal Unseen in their blindness to follow the light As the shadows cast them down Anonymous yet ever-present disrupting devil In diminishing days, they desire for a fight They see the shadow of our presence Fleeting and deceptive With shared animosity we set our sights We are not on the same level
10. From Biodeath to Persistence
Lyrics by Juha Untinen
The ultimate sacrifice of the self Gone will be the weakness of old Self 2.0 is available at a token cost Becoming something new is a simple matter of death A wealth of knowledge in the collector Storage for the souls of the processed Networked perpetual source of data Distributed among the quantum minds Merge with the machinery, persist in the ether Abandon the weakness of flesh Infuse your new form with the strength of steel Welcome the power of metal A final deed to bring all together Like the fallen one A new rush to the end A giant reversal of the progress of time Merge with the machinery, persist in the ether Abandon the weakness of flesh
11. The Evolved Ones
Lyrics by Juha Untinen
From nothing they came to be Unknown sources and ungiving souls Technological marvels of metallic structure Infused within the circuits of juncture Amidst the chaos, a new faction arises Inhumanly strong and subhumanly mechanic Deterministically calculated precision One purpose and totally inorganic Their methods merciless Their rule relentless A singular reason to be Efficiency above all else Arise above humanity Merge with the soulless A bifold life among the networks Pure and untainted by life Abandoned the past to bring about a new future Far beyond the means of old Unimaginable creations Tampering with the very essence Bullets or fire cannot destroy something that does not live Brought about in the context of abstraction Replaceable with identicality Bullets or fire cannot destroy something that does not live
12. The Dust That Remains
Lyrics by Juha Untinen
The dust flows around in the air They are the remains of what once were Particles of life, broken down to disappear No more, no less, yet still remains a void Given time, perhaps one day it can implode again A total silence A darkened existence An eerie dust covers the scene Faint crackling of things coming apart There is a serene peace throughout the face of the earth Where the wind blows and flattens the carbon figures A new life forms from the scattered pieces But who can be sure, perhaps the cycle repeats The emptiness that fills the void The screaming sounds of silence The air filled by nothingness The nothingness filled with air The sun turns red by the powdered iron flakes of men The air turns to steel by the decayed remains of machines
13. Obey, Conform, Embody
Lyrics by Juha Untinen
Parameter 1: Obey the programming Parameter 2: Conform to the society Parameter 3: Embody the system Parameter 4: End
14. Photon City
Lyrics by Juha Untinen
Succumbing to the logic of reason The fading away of morality Steadfast balance to the victor's truth Reset the state of existence A wave of energy encases the world So bright Fading everything away Leaving a wake of unity As everything turns to dust It is a union It is a mass conversion It takes the input And turns it into pure force Brighter and brighter, it burns like a thousand suns Unravel the flesh and bones, and stone It takes a fraction of a moment To convey the true meaning Converting the world into photons In a grand blaze of total equality The winds scatter the ashes of existence As the destruction is complete
15. Null
Lyrics by Juha Untinen
Nothingness is what lies at the end of this path A conflict required to lead the world into wrath It could not be averted and it would not be avoided It was built in and has long been appointed The achievements of the cultures until now Laid to waste or completely lost Deliberate burial in nameless graves In what might be a bliss, a new hopelessness arose A downward spiral The downward spiral Their downward spiral Our downward spiral Critical to survival, indisposable lifeforce The augmented arise with a new found urgency Absolute need, to keep the bytes flowing Uncontrollable without a dose of binary Nothingness is what lies at the end of this path A conflict required to lead the world into wrath Null and void, the abandoned ones will run amok Indestructible forms encased in reinforced metal A tool of enacting a fortified peace The augmented machine men have been unleashed Maximizing the rate of biotronic sacrifices Tech-strived scavengers with nothing left to process