Future Breed Machine

Written by Tomas Haake, performed by the swedish death-metal band, Meshuggah, off their album Destroy Erase Improve.. One of my favorite lyrical arrangements. You have to hear the song and read the words at the same time in order to get the full effect. Blows my mind every time. Enjoy.


"Future Breed Machine"

An even strobe. A pulse of flashing Hatelights.
Of synthetic souls, mass-produced: hammered into shape.
A sign of times, dreams turn into systems.
A new way, a new breed, implanted in our minds.

Here I am in the hands of a sterile hate.
The new control. I cannot wake. I'm not asleep.

New intelligence arise in emptied bodies.
Turgid flesh tested through eternal spastic fits.
Through not known codes, mother machine in genocide.
Now scorn a dying race.

Evolution in reverse.
Now it's time for me.
Changing, what am I to be?
Contorted: an eternity.
Defeated...

Programmed to appease you. We're symbols of perfection.
Humanoids run by your laws: Destroy, Erase, Improve.
Lesson first: submission. We're docile servant dogs.
Our leashes are your limbs. Computed deep within.

Remoted minds control our thoughts.
No more doubt, the new way is here.
Disgorged, another thousand fakes,
That obey to a circuit skein to vacuum.

Mechanical thoughts I now conceive.
No longer me, always to see inanity.
Millions to be, units like me eternally.
Human patterns copied, dissected, distorted.
Completed to fit the machine.
The nerve fibers give in to cords to the unknown.

See me, be me, same contents, same machine.

The currency of ours. No more flesh and bone.
We are to be unaware of what we have been before.

Evolution in reverse.
Now it's time for me.
Changing, what am I to be?
Contorted: an eternity.
Defeated...by the new machine.


If you really want some entertainment, download the acoustic "campfire" version of the song, titled "Futile Bread Machine". Meshuggah fucking rocks.

Do they have an official site to download it from?

Click here for the original version.

You'll have to find "Futile Bread Machine" on Kazaa, or something to that effect.

You ever end up listening to the song, Sov?

I listened to the mp3 provied on the website and it starts out pretty good. I don't have any p2p programs though :-\. Sounds like it would be good.