3RD MACHINE LYRICS

1. Curveball

[Lyrics: J. Ruiter and R. Kools, music: 3rd Machine and Gertjan Vis]

When facts are distractions for warfare, reason has lost the war
Anonymize and conceal
Close the file – nothing is for real

Lie, cover up and distract
It's a million dollar act if played out well;
Part of the world ends

The offensive force is in place
Your pieces set, all with grace
All reason is disabled for a while
Manipulation, common sense
Behind your back, bloodstained hands
The world's a stage, don't forget to shine

What is taking you so long
To admit to admit you were wrong
What is taking you so long
To admit to admit you were wrong
What you really try to hide is the monster
The monster you are inside
What you really try to hide is the monster
The monster you are inside

Damage, damage controlled
The truth untold
Another country, another name
Same play, acts the same
Stage the public, doubts are laughed away
Protect reality with a lie
Lives destroyed, the stakes are high
Political immunity will save his day
What is taking you so long
To admit to admit you were wrong
What you really try to hide is the monster,
The monster you are inside

Damage, damage controlled
The truth untold
Manage anonymize and conceal
Close all the files
Nothing is revealed
And see the masterplan unfold

2. Reboot Initiate

[Lyrics: J. Ruiter, music: 3rd Machine and Gertjan Vis]

What to do, what to be ego central reality
Prioritize yourself and fuck the rest
Is what you, what you, what you want to be.

I am the god of my life
The director of my eyes
Scenes that pass me, passes me by
I drop, I ignore, responsible free

Economic interest, reality standstill
Raw material mining, overkill
Outer shell it's scorched and scarred
Adept, but not in my backyard

Wipe out the sickness, kill the infection
No solution, commence the protection
Tenants we are, we do not rule
Attacking the system
What to do, what to be ambivalent humanity
Efface yourself let everything be
Is what you, what you, what you want it to be..
Hear this disciple of nature's faith
The guardian of mothers state
The mischief conducted, conducted is key
He shows, he shares, he takes a fee
One symbol of survival, one symbol of hope
Radiated fields of empty, with only one tree of hope
Fukushima
Ego central reality
Antagonizing humanity
We're not the hunter we're the prey

3. Quantified Self (The Digital Evolution Phase 1)

[Lyrics: J. Ruiter and F. Tromp, Music: 3rd Machine and Gertjan Vis]

Automated prediction models – risk assessment with speed
The revolution will not be televised – I will be monitored and dealt with
Legal conformation for taps not needed – justice system obsolete
Autonome invisible powers – auto assessment, risk decretes
How it once was physical – it's now a float

Break down my soul (soul) – break down myself (self) -
Break down my mind
(1) into a number – (2) into a code – (3) into a pattern – (4) into a number

Remainder of my memories- forgotten
Ego flows away
Aiming for eternity, immortal
Differentiate, we all do the same

Once it was physical is now a float
Input my stats, input my soul
Translate my consciousness – inhuman code
Input my food, break down my soul
Once it was physical is now a float
Break down my soul, break down my soul
Translate my consciousness – inhuman code
Delete my soul
How it once was physical – it's now a float
Translate my consciousness – in human code

Quantify device input
Justify data health concerns
Mining out imperfections
Enhancing mankind's outliers
Quantify yourself

4. Ultimate Intelligence (The Digital Evolution Phase 2)

[Lyrics: F. Tromp, music: 3rd Machine and Gertjan Vis]

Subtract your mind
Abstract your faith
Knowledge combined to join the race
Invest the time
Donate the funds
Data combined
Create the face
No chance to thrive
Suppress your will
Info combined
Will feed the hate
Binary life will dominate
Binary life will dominate

Old beliefs are digitized, contort the soul immortalize
To rule a nation is to fight, to kill the urge to claim the prize
Power is a means to drill, to cram the needs into a bill
The bill of rights for one and all, hard-coded to a single file

Future now, no escape, take a bow
Go and build your dream successor
Confess your soul, register, it memorize
Of your digital confessor
Hidden thoughts, to translate.
Fill the loss of your biblical oppressor
Moralize, disbelief, anathemize
Of your logical oppressor

Believe in me, and pray to the silicon divine
Devote yourself, give up, your body and your mind

Conjoin the hyve

Why has thou forsaken me
Why has thou forsaken me
Build your dreams and incubate, numb the weak
Go and build your dream successor
Love unbound, disbelief, cry for help
Of your digital confessor
Hidden dreams will not translate,
Fill the loss of your biblical oppressor
Congregate, obligate. Propagate
Of your logical oppressor
Believe in me, and pray to the silicon divine
Devote yourself, give up, your body and your mind
Of your logical oppressor

Oppressor

Subtract your mind
Suppress your will
Suppress your will
Subtract your mind
Binary life
Conjoin the hyve
Conjoin the hyve
No chance to thrive

Create a god without a soul
Create a god without a soul
Logic and time
Sublime

Deus Ex (binary)
Deus Ex (life)
Deus Ex
Machina (will dominate)
Deus Ex (binary)
Deus Ex (life)
Deus Ex Machina

5. Firewall (The Digital Evolution Phase 3)

[Lyrics: J. Ruiter, F. Tromp, music: 3rd Machine and Gertjan Vis]

Disconnected
Isolated from the endless stream of thoughts
This is not what I expected
This is way to much to cope
Break the chains of this addiction
Break this spell once and for all
Find the strength in isolation
Hide behind my firewall

Break these chains of addiction
Break the spell once for all
Break these chains of addiction
Break the spell

I am blind but still I see
Much of this world was hidden from me
Convocated and infected
I was open for control
Into the arms of self reflection
Hide behind my firewall
Disconnected
Isolated from the endless stream, stream of thoughts

You're not gonna find me
You're not gonna find me
You're not gonna find me
You're not gonna find me
You're not gonna find me

Any more
Find me [7x]
Any more

I am blind but still I can see
Much of this world was hidden from me
Living offline
Thinking real time
Much of this world was hidden from me
Living offline
Thinking real time
Much of this world was hidden from me
Disconnected
Isolated
From the endless stream, stream of thoughts
Be true to your opinion
Stay calm, stay in control
Choose for not to be detected
Hide behind your firewall

You're not gonna find me
You're not gonna find me
You're not gonna find me
You're not gonna find me
You're not gonna find me

Any more
You're not gonna find me
You're not gonna find me
You're not gonna find me
You're not gonna find me
You're not gonna find me

Any more

6. Magnet

[Lyrics: J. Ruiter , Music: 3rd Machine and Gertjan Vis]

You only want to have changed your history 'cause you know your past
Ignorance
Your compass for today
Uncertainty
GPS is your way
Ignorance
GPS is your way
Ignorance
GPS is your way

Yearning for meaningfulness
Purpose is what you seek
Reflecting yourself on others
Looking up, bowing down

You only want to change the future from now
'Cause you're sick of today
Hindsight
Your motto in life
Standstill is stabbing your thrives
Hindsight is stabbing your thrives
Hindsight your motto in life

So you look at me as if I am the template how your life should be.
Well brother, you don't know me, you don't know me and where I came from

I forgot all about the roads I took
Different routes made by different men
Looking back achieve standstill
No progress
You stumble on what lies ahead..

Resignation of self-determination
Passiveness is leading your way
The past as an inspiration
The past a mandate

Sure, some conquests were made
Some choices turned out well
Is this the foundation
Of how your statue will fall
Time is a bitch
The greatest fortune of them all
You consider your wallet empty
A void before your fall

7. 1953

[Lyrics: J. Ruiter, music: 3rd Machine, Stefan Westerman and Gertjan Vis]

He feels a breeze
A cold hand grasps his heart
Thrown back into a different time
A moment tattooed on his thoughts
A vivid memory; hands above the water, trying to find something to clench on.
Floated away with the stream into their deaths.
He couldn't save them.
60+ years passed him by
Back to 1953

Witnessing a tragedy, footnote in history
Ploughing water, reaping wind
It changed the man, it changed the land

The storm came from the north west
Combined with spring tide the water broke through
The water bashed on and on, flooding the lands
People sought refuge in their attic or on their roof
Walls couldn't stand the pressure, houses collapsed
Doubling the number of casualties;

Buried and drowned

Witnessing a tragedy, footnote in history
Ploughing water, reaping winds
Changed the man, changed the land

I struggle and emerge
We cross that bridge and arise
Defining moments, defining people
Survive a disaster, struggle and emerge

Witnessing a tragedy, footnote in history
Ploughing water, reaping wind
It changed the man, it changed the land
Re-living catastrophe, anchored eternally
Lost some lives and saved a few
Live long struggle guaranteed

8. System Idle

[Lyrics: J. Ruiter , Music: 3rd Machine and Gertjan Vis]

Wasted year gone by
I never knew, how time could fly
End of an era, end of a life
No more poison to the mind

Reality overtakes us all
It smashes shit in your face
Feet down to the ground
Back to life, back to waste

When this confrontation with yourself occurs
Every doubt is shouted out loud in your subconscious
Every thought, every mind bend is doubted and weighed

I like to give my life a goal
I want to climb out of this hole

Wasted year gone by
I never knew, time could fly
End of an era, end of a life
No more poison to the mind

Reality overtakes us all
It smashes shit in your face
Smashed down to the ground
Back to life, back to waste

Crappy job, passed my way
New reality, day by day
New routines, to get custom to
Borrowing time to bore you, you, you

This path I take is forced, sensing false opportunities
Pain of change I feel
No securities
This path I take is forced, sensing false opportunities
Pain of change I feel
No securities
Attempts to rebound failed, miserable me
Trapped inside a system, idle
Me

9. Petrified

[Lyrics: J. Ruiter, music: 3rd Machine and Gertjan Vis]

I stand petrified
Nowhere to go, nowhere to hide
Isolation promoted me
Sensing imprisoned, freedom in society
I check my profile, I watch TV
This endless routine is fucking killing me
I go crazy
I feel this rush
I feel this rush
I feel this rush
I feel this rush, this rush from us

Routine fills my day
Grey coloring my path, my endless way
Disconnected from this hive
I hear people whisper, he's outside, not alive
I'm having lunch I search the web
I write a letter to take a chance
To reenter this rat's race
Everyday, every night caught in a recurrent live
A useless guilt is haunting me I exist
Look at me

I stand outside society
I swear there's
No way back for me
I feel locked in my mind
No upside, just hindsight forever
I feel, anxiety
The cruel
Have no place for me
Adjust to this propriety
No upside, just hindsight forever
I am stuck, just stuck in the middle and
Stuck in the middle and







3RD MACHINE LYRICS