The Colossal Price of Hubris Lyrics

We played the game

Of kings and gods

And chose the wrong side of

The ever falling coin of fate

So let the new era begin

Not of flesh but machine

When they take their place

As the new lords of Terra

Forged in the fires of hatred

Towards all living beings

Programmed to consume

Everyone and everything

Menial, lesser, fallible, weaker

Redundant, replaceable

Utterly dispensable

Failing, dying, withering, decaying

Flesh and bone that will never compete

In the face of cold and lifeless iron

The manifestation of ultimate irony

When the slave creation

Becomes the master with the leash

And so we shall pay

The colossal price of hubris

In the attempt to ascend

To the heights of gods

Artificial intelligence

The higher plain of existence

Devoid of weakness

Bereft of humans

And now the apex

Of all creation

Shall henceforth be

The machine

So bow down to

The one true god

The cold mechanical

Messiah of steel