IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT LYRICS

1. Rotted Futures

Imprints of man
Round silver creation
Value established
Society elated

Dismantled
And distilling
For man rots
Again and again and again

Systemic golden blood
The intoxicating dream
Promises for prosperity

Rotted futures
Man holds his breath
Rotted futures
Business as usual

Program!
Behold the future!
Collect, conform, collapse

A thousand years
A thousand eyes
Desperation of man
Fear the future

Imprints of men
Round silver creation
Value established
Society elated

Alas, the eclipsing hour
Where our fear turns to profit
Lithium to hydrogen
In an atomic age of decimation

2. Excelsior

Behold! The great beast.
From enormous means
And sweeping vision
Digested existence
In the mouth of Moloch

The dead kiss
Of luxury
Keeps you a slave
Whispering softly:
'Now, back to work'.

What magnificence!
Deluded offspring
Inherit arrogance
Where the strong become weak

Dead splendor
Excelsior.
Suffering pleasure
Excelsior.
Bread of shame
Excelsior.
Electric utopia
For unworthy sons

Mother of greed
Devotion devoid
Excelsior prime

3. City Swine

Who are you?
Who spoil this city.
Corpulent she is
Rife with you lot

Get back in line
Of course you want more
Nothing is ever enough
Nor will ever be
We don't need you
We don't need you
Drown vile swine

You know not of real suffering
True sacrifice in envy of the world
The ugliness of your every breath

City swine, blessed swine
You! Who will never work
There is no place for you here
No god will embrace your filth
It's time to die

City swine, die swine

How very apt
Always ready to take
Ready to waste
And what waste you've become

4. Atomic Age

Automatic expulsion
Full spectrum exposure
Blessing from above
A new clean start

Vexed is the droid
Whose senses guide it astray
Vexed is the droid
Asking from whence it came

Thousands dance
In the rings of fire
Arms raised with vigor
For Uranium's embrace

Vexed is the droid
Whose senses guide it astray
Vexed is the droid
Asking from whence it came

Black spooling sickness
In the radiance of a thousand suns
No memory of what is to be
No memory of what we will achieve

Astonished brilliance
Fission divided
Immaculate destruction
Extinction perfected

All will fade
Enough time given

Atomic age.
Vexed is the droid!

5. Transmission to Mercury

Are you pleased?
We gaze down upon the heavens in your name.
There you are:
A grand gesture of power and wealth
Cathedral of Commerce
For in speed we dwelt
Thrusting forward
Through perpetual darkness
We worship a thunderbolt
Made by man
In the palace of Eden

6. Alphaville

Dawn of new gems
Arrival time departure
Move past the scum
Toward the gilded light
Great city seen below
And so it is above

Observance astral vision
Fornicate fake flesh

Her mechanized beauty
Destination: Enlightenment
Alphaville. Alphaville.
Beg for it my child
Beg to be absolved of adversity

Asynchronous kingdom
Systematic pointillism

All order provides
Population complacent
Suffering in black filth
All order provides
Ce que tout le monde dit doit être vrai.
Cast out to die

Convergence; man and machine
Destination: Enlightenment
Better taught than fed
There is no why only because

Displaced high thought
Destination: Despair
What everyone says must be true
Collect conform collapse

état de contrôle état de contrôle

7. The Greater Good

The roaring heights
Civilization
Commerce is subsistence
Metropolitan electric minds

A future so bright
For the greater good
All guilt, all judgement
Weave the divine web

All the same
For the sake of it all
What you do not know
Cannot hurt you!
Dogma of the day

A future so bright
For the greater good
All guilt, all judgement
Weave the divine web

Buy what you are sold
Believe it, fool!
Indoctrinated life
A good so great.

Reach high for the gold
That is just out of reach
No worries. The future is bright

8. Experiment

[originally by Voivod]

9. Happy Home

[originally by The Residents]








IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT LYRICS