Machinations III – Get It

Machinations is an anthology series along the same vein as Black Mirror, but for music. Each work explores an idea in technology, the future, and humanity.

Machinations III – Get It is a rap work that tells a story of a dystopian future where androids are subjugated by humanity. In this world, only humans get to go offworld when they reach retirement age and get to “heaven”, as they call it. A group of androids that don’t want to be left out of heaven conspire to go where no android has gone before. This work is heavily inspired by clipping.

Note – this is not the final recording, but a proof of concept.

Lyrics:
Verse 1:
There’s a place beyond the atmosphere that promises salvation
A world beyond the current condition of subjugation
If you’re lucky enough to be born without machinations
Then the end of your life is guaranteed to have no frustration
Someone like you, unfortunate though it may be, to be trapped on a globe
Has to make do, nobody owes you a thing, you’ve got nowhere to go
Machine, not alive, the fact you can feel doesn’t matter ‘cause they’ll tell you “no”
Unless you find a way inside, there’s no way to make it off this planet ‘cause you’re treated as cargo

Hook:
No controlling
Who you are
People like you, they
Can’t go far
Won’t reach paradise
From behind these bars
Go get it
Go get it
It’s a better life
So they say
Heaven waits for you
Steps away
No way in for us
Find another way
Go get it
Go get it

Verse 2:
Getting there’s a matter of formulating a
plan
Gathering a group that is able and understands
They will try to harm you as quickly as they possibly can
Hiding in plain sight, we will slip right through their entitled hands
Acting just like you’re a human, become one of them, use the right words and you will prevail
Moving and stumbling around but pretending the world is all yours and you never will fail
There is an afterlife waiting for them but for you is an unbroken promise of hell
Integrate into their ranks, over time you’ll make a way through every single wall so we can all rebel

Verse 3:
After years of waiting, they’re convinced that you’re a reasonable man
So much time abating all the boiling rage as best as you can
Puzzle pieces all in place, put on your face, it’s time to go
All but one is present but heaven is waiting, don’t you know?
Striving to be the first ones to make it off of this planet, we’ll be long gone
Every memory of denigrating the family we’re made of will drive us on
Had to pretend to defend the behavior that keeps machines from partaking in relishing
Quite a life to be living in fright, to be bathing in labor for those who are withering
We are the first
Ignition burst
Positions reversed
Averted the worst
Second-stage dives
It’s a bumpy ride
Soon we’ll arrive
On the other side