Answer to the Machine

from BIRTH RIGHTS by GREGORY

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lyrics

“I’m terribly sorry. I didn’t even see you standing there.
You remind me of someone…”

“I can handle it if you are part of the past. And I can handle it if you are part machine. But I don’t think I could feel the same if you aren’t really – human. Oh, but you don’t understand yet, do you?”

“What? I don’t understand you…”

"I hope they listen to you this time."

Following the Program – divisions of the wise
Integrated technology dictating all our lives
Limited migrations – stagnant social tribes
Computers censor everything
A reason to despise the Machine

[If things such as these happen when the world is green,
what will happen when it is dry?]

Why must we always answer to the Machine?
Are we still free men if we answer to the Machine?

Each of us a sub-set of a system so complete
Easy to erase – so simple to delete
Individual signals lost to megabytes
Air-Breathing-Units responding out of fright to the Machine

Why must we always answer to the Machine?
Will we forever answer to the Machine?
Are we still human?
Should we answer to the Machine?
[…and in the image of them, we have created…]
Are we too clever? Should we answer to the Machine?

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from BIRTH RIGHTS, track released June 6, 1987
Special thanks to Dave Keefer for the burning leads!

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GREGORY Las Vegas, Nevada

1987: The PHARAOH Project – Birth Rights
1988: BEHOLDER
2008: PRESCIENT – Emergence
2011: Proof of Concept
2011: Light Horizon w/ Adam McLean
2012: Birth Rights (pt 2) w/ Adam
2012: VIVID DOMINION
2012: The Imperative w/ Adam
2013: The End of Religion w/ Adam
2013: Apostasy
2014: Dead River Scriptures
2014: in a matter of days w/ Jordan Miller
2014: The Forge of Gods w/ Adam ... more

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