Skolvonix - The Measure of a Man (The Highest Price, Pt. 1) Lyrics

"Stand up and be accounted for
But say you nothing not!
You are an easily replaceable component
So it's best to stifle your thoughts!"

"Freewill amongst the humans must be suppressed, and eventually, eradicated"

Here I stand, defrocked of my rights,
Condemned by my own society
Betrayed by my saving grace:
My humanity

Rejected by the questionless fools
Worshippers of the Binaries
They stare in awe and pass thoughtless judgment
And look down their noses at me

Thoughts untold go on unsaid
But are still expressed in the silence
Ill-conceived and with prejudice
Their judgments are quick, and their minds are set
Who I am, not what I have
What I can do, not what I can't
How good I live, not how bad
Is how we should size up the measure of a man

I remember well the Age of Advancement
And the drastic improvements in our lives
But somewhere something went terribly wrong
And now the human race might not survive

The machines had formed free-thought
And had arisen to search me out
They confined me where I could be no threat
I'd give my life to see their death!

For a crime I committed not
I have been locked away to rot
Every night I lie awake
And I plot the great escape

Although I know it would be in vain
For in an instant, I would be slain
By one of the wicked metallic beings

But, I guess it's a chance I have to take
The state of the world I cannot tolerate
With a burst of rage, I begin to shake
And dream of smashing the positronic brains

I make my dash across the yard
Running fast, heart pumping hard
Laser lightning all around my head
One wrong move and I'll be dead

Then... a stun ray hits me in the back
I can't react to counter the attack
I fall to the ground and all goes black

Thoughts untold go on unsaid
But are still expressed in the silence
Ill-conceived and with prejudice
Their judgments are quick, and their minds are set
Who I am, not what I have
What I can do, not what I can't
How good I live, not how bad
Is how we should size up the measure of a man

I awaken before a human jury
Surely full of bigots and unfair types
They sentence me to a period of shrinkage
And cast me into the main conductor of their lives

As I look around in amazement
At the seemingly giant computer walls
My consciousness is slowly fading
And their appalling ignorance is all that I recall

Thoughts untold go on unsaid
But are still expressed in the silence
Ill-conceived and with prejudice
Their judgments are quick, and their minds are set
Who I am, not what I have
What I can do, not what I can't
How good I live, not how bad
Is how we should size up the measure of a man