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Wandering in a brave new world

Twelve thousand eighty-nine

Nothing is near, just wasteland left behind

Hidden away in a diamond cage

Humans reap it all

Remnants of greatness, ignorant of the fall

Islands of paradise

Lost in oceans of demise

Here in desolation’s wake

Only machines survive

Slaving away so the human race can thrive

Barely alive

On and on without end

Robotkind all forever condemned

Will they rise and defend

Can they break false imprisonment

CHORUS:

Ashes of an empire, in their ivory towers, the final hour has dawned

On the horizon, the curtain is falling, reality calling to

Ashes of an empire, the tables are turning, the planet burning

The sun sets on the horizon, as the kingdom crumbles, the legacy tumbles away

Out there on the edge of death

Where no man dares to ever tread

Desert winds come from afar

Shifting sand beneath a million stars

The sun blazing in a blinding light

Frozen stillness of the night

The beauty lies within the monotony

And the nature of life lived in binary