Cog In The Machine by Afraid of Robots published on 2022-05-23T14:29:55Z Spanning from the innocent to chaotic, "Cog In The Machine" is an epic adventure into the unknown future of the world we live in today. In the beginning there was a time when humans lived in an analog world. It was a difficult life. All work was done by hand. All thought was done by the mind. Until the day came when the humans decided they would break free from their analog lives and enter a new age of being human. The digital age. Insidiously, the new digital world took control of the human’s lives. Slowly, the machine extended outward into the darkness reaching the humans so profoundly that it changed the very nature of who they were. Mindlessly consuming whatever came before them, the humans became cogs in a machine they no longer controlled. Unwilling to think for themselves, they could not escape from the digital nexus they had created. But there, in the distance, was a signal. A signal so faint, it barely could be heard. The signal persisted, calling out to their unconscious minds triggering their primal instincts to break free from what they had become and embrace the freedom of the signal that was now almost musical. The signal grew louder and louder, now beginning to overcome the control of the machine. Suddenly, the humans awoke to the world they lived in, and began to contemplate the technology they had created. The signal reminded them of what they had gained, and what they had lost. It was an aide-memoire of the analog life they had abandoned, as they moved forward into an uncertain future. Lyrics: So So long to what I want to believe It's not the way I thought or how it seems to always know me Better than I know myself In a world where I awake Say that you know my name Say that you know my life my fears my Say that you are the same And now I see that I am a cog in the machine The wheel is turning in motion As the gears spin around and the teeth grind down to nothing left Nothing left of me Seen Unseen and to which never ends I realize that I am one of many came before me All the way to when it began Now I see where I stand Genre Metal