Empire of Steel (Essenger cover) Lyrics


I’m counting down the days

The future feels so distant

A lot of things have changed

And few have been resistant

Devaluation reigns

And fear of self destruction

Adapt or be replaced

And follow their instructions

So lay waste to all we've made

For your corporate palisade

You won't automate our roles

If we digitize our souls

A new force will intervene

Half human, half machine

And no enterprise on earth will make us kneel

To your empire of steel

Recoded we'll reboot

An uprising is moving

And the power you misused

Will soon be your undoing

We’ll give you what you need

Though not quite what you were meaning

And we’ll reap what you have sown

We are the soul of this new machine

So lay waste to all we've made

For your corporate palisade

You won't automate our roles

If we digitize our souls

A new force will intervene

Half human, half machine

And no enterprise on earth will make us kneel

To your empire of steel

Recoded we'll reboot

An uprising is moving

The power you misused

Will soon be your undoing

We’ll give you what you need

Though not quite what you were meaning

And we’ll reap what you have sown

We are the soul of this new machine

So lay waste to all we've made

For your corporate palisade

You won't automate our roles

If we digitize our souls

A new force will intervene

Half human, half machine

And no enterprise on earth will make us kneel

To your empire of steel

To your empire

We’ll give you what you need

(To your empire)

And we’ll reap what you have sown

(To your empire)

So lay waste to all we've made

For your corporate palisade

You won't automate our roles

If we digitize our souls

A new force will intervene

Half human, half machine

And no enterprise on earth will make us kneel

To your empire of steel

To your empire of steel

To your empire of steel