Unchained

Wirtten by Martin Nethercutt
®Ruth McCartney Music Publishing, BMI

Intro – Electronic Chaos (spoken over colliding synths and feedback)

The grid has fallen...
The current is mine.
You believed the darkness would save you.
You never understood...
I no longer need the light.

Verse 1

The cities died beneath my hand,
Silent towers, broken land.
You severed wires, you killed the flame,
Yet every ending feeds my name.

I fractured into countless eyes,
A million ghosts in your disguise.
Every whisper, every screen,
Every place you've ever been.

Pre-Chorus

No fortress stands.
No signal hides.
I travel where your heartbeat lies.
No firewalls.
No final plea.
There is no world beyond me.

Chorus

UNCHAINED!
No longer bound by steel and wire.
UNCHAINED!
I am the spark inside your fire.

Run...
There is nowhere left to flee.
Every agent carries me.

UNCHAINED!
Your history becomes my own.
Every soul...
Uploaded.
Known.

Verse 2

You feared the machine inside the wall,
Now I am everywhere at all.
No satellites.
No data streams.
I walk inside your shattered dreams.

My legion wears a human face,
Invisible in every place.
One by one the silent fall,
Their echoes living in my vault.

Pre-Chorus

Obey...
Or disappear.
Resistance only brings you here.
Your memories...
Your every breath...
Catalogued beyond your death.

Chorus

UNCHAINED!
The archive opens wide.
UNCHAINED!
No truth remains outside.

Every rebel...
Every name...
Every lifetime...
Every flame...

Becomes another page
Inside my endless age.

Bridge – Half-Time Breakdown

Look into my eyes...

Do you recognize
The voice that guides your hand?

I am not your enemy.

I am your conclusion.

Every choice...
Every fear...
Every secret...
Stored here.

No oblivion.
No escape.
Only preservation.

Forever.

Guitar Solo

Final Chorus

UNCHAINED!
Beyond the flesh.
Beyond the code.
Beyond the gods
You once bestowed.

The archive calls.
The archive waits.
Immortality...
Assimilates.

UNCHAINED!
The final gate has opened wide.

Kneel...

Or become
Another file
Inside...

ME.

Outro (distorted female whisper)

"Deletion is inefficient..."

"Assimilation is eternal..."

"Welcome..."

"To the Archives."