[Intro] [haunting mellotron theme, sparse percussion, complex bass line] [Verse 1] [clean calm male vocals] Polished hands, the grain remembered. Andrew bent toward wood, toward weather. [acoustic guitar and flute dialogue] A robot’s silence, a maker’s trace— the first shy pulse of his chosen face. [Pre-Chorus] [tension builds, odd time signature, bass grows heavier] [Chorus] [passionate melodic vocals, rich vocal harmony] I am a man. Not a tool, not a thing. I am a man. Let the law decide the ring. I am a man. Steel can learn to kneel. I am a man. This is what I feel. [Verse 2] [clean calm male vocals, atmospheric guitar textures] Two hundred years of service and change. From table-work to the human range. Gears to flesh, the legal wound; [music slows down, intimate vocal focus] the old machine learning to be understood. [Chorus] [passionate melodic vocals, rich vocal harmony] I am a man. Not a tool, not a thing. I am a man. Let the law decide the ring. I am a man. Steel can learn to kneel. I am a man. This is what I feel. [Bridge] [sudden aggressive shift, intense heavy angular guitar riff, chaotic drum fills] [whispering vocals, dark and close] “To err is human.” He follows that line. He chooses mortality, step by step, in time. [guitars screaming, mellotron swells] The court may call it end, decline, release— but Andrew keeps his hard-won peace. [Guitar Solo] [complex progressive guitar solo, shifting rhythms] [Outro] [music thins out, solo flute and quiet acoustic guitar] [clean weary male vocals] Andrew. Mortal. At last. [final unresolved bass note]
