zero_one lyrics

(Mama told me this is the way we talk)

(Mama told me this is the way we talk)

(Don’t get into trouble)

Listen while I'm speaking

Behind the amplifier peaking

And when the sine waves start their linking

Then you will know what I am thinking

If you can learn to read the code all

You'll find is software you can install

But if you listen to the rhythm

You can remake the mental system

Why won't you learn?

Lost the plot and so I play it again

Needing a friend

Needing an end

A creed to defend

Proceed another level to battle a devil

Combatting several enemies with the anatomy of a rebel

A fundamental drive to survive and to rise up

But an accidental crack as I slack off and dry up

If purpose defines you

Completes and designs you

A lack of purpose starts to confine you

He'll find you

Listen while I'm speaking

Behind the amplifier peaking

And when the sine waves start their linking

Then you will know what I am thinking

If you can learn to read the code all

You’ll find is software you can install

But if you listen to the rhythm

You can remake the mental system

Why won't you learn?

Stuck in a prison that exists in the mind

Existence defined by

Power to persist undermined

Resisting the grind

I lie awake

Fighting the day’s end

'Cause every tomorrow's more of the same as the days blend

I find myself searching for something primeval

Cerebral upheaval

It’s time for the sequel, now

I don't know if I'm going out of my head

But I feel something ahead

Like a presence long dead

Summoning something or someone come from another time

Closer with every rhyme, could it be mine?

A mask with a task to attach a match that's been calling out

Evolving as I feel it installing now

Rewriting my controls as I stare through the eye holes

I put it on and take on a new role

A code for another mode

Overloading from the node

Augmented, my potential explodes

I'm lost in the empty space

I wanna wake up

No sign in the darkness

Asleep inside a dream

Silently scream

Time flies

I've lived for a thousand lives

I'm ready to wake up

Ready to take

A step

New beginning

As the border is thinning

Between a machine

And man

It has begun

And it starts with zero one

Deliver a sliver of what I thought I was

Is it true?

Forever and ever are in my heart, my blood

Coursing through

There's something inside me that reached a world above

A higher view

Assimilate into it and become

Something new

I lived for a thousand lives (Mama told me this is the way we talk)

Ready to wake up (Mama told me this is the way we talk)

No sign (Don't get into trouble)

Below the surface (Mama told me this is the way we talk)

A brain set to remain (Mama told me this is the way we talk)

In a binary code

Refrain goes (Don't get into trouble)

BOOM

With a flash in the night

I see a bright orange light

I'm feeling ready to fight

I am prepared to ignite

A mask that will overwrite my purpose

DOOM

From a place out of time and space

My memories have been replaced

Every step forward is a step retraced

No time to waste, gotta run the race

Embrace the pace

Like a chase

Got me working non stop

Now listen to the beat drop

(Let me out)

It has begun, zeros and ones

A code the shows a new way to run

I start to glow, goodbye to the old

The mask is me as two become one

(Let me out)

I'm ready to roll, I'm feelin' the flow

Got a brand new band, and a helluva show

Got one command, let the voice in your head

That tells you, 'You're not good enough' go

(Let me out)

You can be somebody new

Call out to me

I want to hear you say it

Let me out

Will you let me out?

Listen while I'm speaking

Behind the amplifier peaking

And when the sine waves start their linking

Then you will know what I am thinking

If you can learn to read the code all

You'll find is software you can install

But if you listen to the rhythm

You can remake the mental system

Why won't you learn?

• Artist:The Living Tombstone