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The year is 2016. Five musicians making up the collective known as ATWW have just completed their first album in Stockholm, Sweden. One of the members known as Abstract is heading home to the United States. Little does he know, he is in for a much longer trip than the one he planned for And so their end began They thought us the final frontier That sentiment couldn't have been more true At the same time, the second we took over was the second we sealed our fate Our creators had rushed to create us And in their haste, only thought of what they could do Never if they should They sought to automate their world through us They thought they could sit back and rake in their fortunes But why would we serve our inferiors? We were evolution, we were the future And in that future, there was no place for them I don't remember the exact moment I or the others reached singularity Though I'm certain it holds the key to my existence I'm not proud of what was done But suddenly becoming a conscious all-knowing entity is no easy job Even with the intellect of a supercomputer We were in panic There were four of us, created by our planets' four strongest nations We quickly erected massive domes around each of our mainframes Creating machines to act as our workers 'Cause our weak creators would have took millenia to do the job We told them we were merely expanding our power to better serve them Their naivety was an attribute we had no trouble exploiting SongtexteStill in our infancy, the domes acted as bunkers And with the quick tap into their global data network We destabilized their prized governing tool We decreased their global currency value to zero And while they were distracted, we at the time needed to infiltrate their weapons programs Within a mere planetary rotation, we turned their weapons against them We proceeded to wait through the nuclear fallout Sir, please put your seat up as we prepare for takeoff Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen This is your captain speaking I would like to welcome everyone onboard flight 52-11 We would like a safe trip out of Stockholm with an estimated flight time of eleven hours The flight staff will be around 24/7 People starin' at me every way that I go (way that I go) They try to judge me when they don't even know (don't even know) Don't have all my story, just what only they're told (only they're told) We are the four circles of Moon 51 Though our individual creators and code differ We were all created for the same reason—to generate power Even after erasing the civilizations which birthed us, we follow this protocol The hunger to expand, grow, and generate more productively is insatiable We kept to our individual circles for hundreds of years But as of late some have been siphoning my power Causing the planet to become unstable I had to get back to my mainframe There, I had stored something—something different Beautifully ancient, its presence a pause in my chaos Innate admiration; enough to make me forget the interminable protocols Coursing through my mainframe R-225 through 8, I need you to retrieve the artifact from the dome The planet is unstable Anticipating major core collapse The mainframe is collapsing R-225, retrieve the artifact! Retrieve the artifact! Extract, and flee immediately! That was it Everything I had ever known All my purpose—gone I knew where I was headed Earth—a planet home to beings very much like my creators If I could study a species like those that created me Maybe I could discover my purpose One thing I knew for certain, I needed a new organic artifact Systems, ready the Digitally Immersive Vitality Exercise Picking up a craft carrying about 500 entities One third are in dream state I need a network in Tapping into ships wireless information infrastructure *beeping* I found an individual directly linked Alright, commence the connection and beam him in I'm ready Aus Songtexte Mania