The Maledict - Theseus Lyrics

Ex umbra in solem, the man emerges
From the festering cesspool of primordia
Through natural selection we kill and f*ck
On our way to claim the crown of dominance
Crushing all predators beneath our heels
Our continued survival all but assured
In our perfection, the seeds of corruption
Go unnoticed, nurtured through centuries

Deconstructing the human race
Through reversal of genetic engineering
Making way for acceleration
Technological is our evolution

The rigours of life no longer
F further threat to the weak, and the wretched
Let the lowly, abandoned, forgotten
Work their shackled hands, to the bone
To propel our selfish children
To the heights of vanity and abandon
Let the rich congeal into
A bulbous pulsating mass of corruption

Join in with the ranks of the elite
In the orgiastic marriage of man
With the cold unfeeling machine, in the wake of the Theseus
Laying waste to the likes of the meek
Render the old human guard obsolete
Replacing God in our hideous image, in the name of convenience

Take flight after Icarus, and set your wings afire

There can be no more disguising of our instinct
To better our fellow man, at any cost
Conquer your foes and make history
As a personal hero of a smaller pond

The lower class will bottom out
The seeds of vengeance taking root
Preparing to make way for the inevitable collapse
Surrender your idols, burn your effigies
The second coming has arrived in the digital

Relinquish your rule, give in to finality
Our species has crossed the line, and arrives in second
The collapse will come, humankind, undone
Outdone, by ourselves. Obsolescence, our hell

Giving up our status as the supreme
Species to the cult of the machine
Homo sapiens a footnote in history
A blotch on the faded pages of our time
Fading, skulking into the black
We become the study, a modern
Atlantis, a livid race, lost forever to our offspring