Tonight We Fight the Computers Lyrics

Head down in the Panopticon

I feel them staring right through

My electric heart

That noise through the dark

We're in the shadows like sharks

My neurons fire

Like a million shooting stars

For those

Exotic animals

driving exotic cars

And I

I want to feel like the future

And I

I want to ride the wire

And I

Tonight we fight the computers

And we fight to win, you know

And I

We'll light the night on fire

I pay the price for this

Cartesian mind

I can feel it, I can feel it

I feel the static coming through

From another time

That noise through the dark

In the shadows like sharks

I look up!

To see the falcon fly by

And I can almost see the pity for me in his eyes

And I

I want to feel like the future

And I

I want to ride the wire

And I

Tonight we fight the computers

And I

We fight to stay alive

Feels like home to me

Feels like I'm out to sea

Floating on the surface of

A scintillating dream

I burrow in the feathered skin

Plant myself a seed

A germ that burns with phosphorescent

Apertures and reads

The future in the fading rings

Of planets and of trees

And traces each atomic orbit

Coursing through the leaves

I plant these totem satellites

In each sacred space I land

To be my offshore diplomats

Embracing novel network paths

To form a lattice leading

To the place I want to be

And I

I want to feel like the future

And I

I want to ride the wire

And I

Tonight we fight the computers

And I

We'll light the night on fire