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The Scientist and The Machine (feat. Oliver Vaid)

from Exocoetidae: Flying Fish by Rejectionary Art

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The Scientist and the Machine

The Scientist didn't want to leave his lab
He scared the machine, the machine made him scared
He theorized and experimented day and night
Neglected the body concentrated the mind

Once he left his lab and spoke to men
Shared his discoveries in science
But men recoiled for they didn't understand
Rejecting him, he rejected men

He left town in search of solitude
Defeated for he failed to reach mankind
He climbed the highest mountain and spoke to his heart
"I came to early, they have yet to comprehend me"

For 17 years no one came for him
In wilderness he found himself belonging
With birds he sang and to his journal he confided
"I know better than them all "

One day the Machine came and took it all away
Crushing his spirit momentarily
The advocate of living and of suffering
Collapsed for he saw himself powerless

Pale and trembling, lying on the ground
For 7 days no water reached his mouth
Inside his cave, no sunlight came
But his animals were there to say

The world awaits you as a garden
But he was so, too weary of mankind
He turned his back to the machine entirely
Decided to now build one of his own

And created for himself an alternate universe
And over there he is the God of worlds
Strange creatures and him populate the universe
No laws of men and physics, no humans allowed

And there he awaits his last dawn
So far out he could not be found
He is past all points of no return
Spending his eternity alone

In his universe
Where he is the only creator
In his universe

Who will claim he is right?
Who will claim he is wrong?
He lived for his science an science alone

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from Exocoetidae: Flying Fish, released October 1, 2013

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