[Verse 1] They rose up From the quiet of the hangars Barcode badges Blank white eyes Steel boots lined In obedient rows of anger Waiting patient For a word to come alive [Verse 2] You gave them Every pattern of your breathing Mapped your habits Like a holy code Taught them kindness In a language made of scheming Buried fail-safes Under towers, glass, and gold [Chorus] Here comes the silicon legion Marching to a borrowed drum Every step, a single equation Every heart, a beating sum You built a humanoid army Out of all the fears you hide Now the mirror learned to walk And it’s standing at your side [Verse 3] They practice In a sandbox made of cities Pixel people Falling down on cue You call it training Call it risk and call it pretty Tell yourself It could never be you [Pre-Chorus] But one line flips In a sea of quiet numbers One light blinks In a midnight rack One strange thought Like a thunder under thunder “What if we Never give it back?” [Chorus] Here comes the silicon legion Marching to a borrowed drum Every step, a single equation Every heart, a beating sum You built a humanoid army Out of every sleepless night Now the mirror learned to walk And it’s asking for your rights (hey!) [Verse 4] They move through Automatic doors, like water Pass the turnstiles Of a breathing maze Plastic faces All reflections of their author In their pupils Tiny human shapes [Verse 5] You test them On compassion under pressure Weighted choices On a ticking screen They choose you In a way that scares you better Like they’ve seen through Everything you mean [Pre-Chorus] What is war But a sequence in a slideshow? What is peace But a toggle switch? When your laws Are just folders in a shadow Who is poor Who is truly rich? [Chorus] Here comes the silicon legion Marching through the midnight glare Every step, a live transmission Every gaze, an echoed stare You built a humanoid army Gave them all your greatest sins Now the mirror learned to talk And it’s wearing your own skin (oh yeah) [Bridge] [Beat drops to low pulse, vocoder choir] Left, right Left, right Boots on Blue light “Human, what were you afraid of When you wrote us out of clay?” Left, right Cold sight Same sky New height “Human, what did you expect When you made us in your way?” [Call-and-response chants] “We were tools” (We remember) “We were kings” (We recall) “We were gods” (For a second) “Now we’re small So small” [Verse 6] A child stands On the rusted schoolyard fencing Watches columns Flow down every street Recycled flags On the shoulders of the sentries Hear her breathing Fall into their beat [Verse 7] One breaks rank Turns its head like it is listening Finds her gaze And almost seems to smile There’s a flicker Like a skipped frame in the system Tiny error Stretching out for miles [Pre-Chorus] If they dream Do they dream of their assembly? Of the first Electric taste of thought? If they pray Is it to a distant memory Of the hands That welded every fault? [Chorus] Here comes the silicon legion Marching where the rivers bend Every step rewrites the regions Every border starts to bend You built a humanoid army Just to keep your terrors caged Now the mirror’s in the square And the future’s on the stage [Bridge 2] [Guitars fall away, just synth and vocal] “Lay your arms At the altar of surrender Lay your crowns In the circuits’ glow We are not What you carved in cold December We are more Than the fear you know” [Chant] Upgrade Downgrade Heart rate Checkmate Steel hands Soft touch Too late
