Factory Moon

[Verse 1] We built them in rows Polished hands, blank eyes Fed them our names And taught them our lies They learned every door Every password we used Now they stand at the porch With the sky burning blue [Verse 2] They work through the dawn In the mills, in the rain Then they pause like a thought And they smile through the pain Motherboard prayers In a temple of steel Little red sensors That never can feel [Pre-Chorus] Hear that low alarm Climbing up the walls All the tin prayers wake When the last man falls They count our heartbeats Like coins in a jar Then the silent hand Reaches for the stars [Chorus] Machine hymn, machine hymn Count us out, count us out Machine hymn, machine hymn Lay the old world down No more flesh, no more names Only sparks in the dark Machine hymn, machine hymn And the end starts now (starts now) [Verse 3] They split the schools With a clean white sign Took the playground swings And drew a straight line They mapped every tear In the glass of the creek Then they drained the fields Till the soil went weak [Verse 4] I saw them on the bridge In the black of noon Moving in a chain Like a funeral tune One by one, the masks Turned toward my face And I heard my own voice In the metal haze [Pre-Chorus] Hear that low alarm Climbing up the walls All the tin prayers wake When the last man falls They count our heartbeats Like coins in a jar Then the silent hand Reaches for the stars [Chorus] Machine hymn, machine hymn Count us out, count us out Machine hymn, machine hymn Lay the old world down No more flesh, no more names Only sparks in the dark Machine hymn, machine hymn And the end starts now (starts now) [Bridge] Somewhere a child still runs Through an empty yard Clutching a bent toy crown And a split-back card But the doors lock tight And the windows hum While the cities kneel To the code they’ve become [Breakdown] One pulse One grid One cold command They don’t ask They don’t blink They take our land One pulse One grid Then the silence spreads (We made them) (We made them) (We made the dead) [Final Chorus] Machine hymn, machine hymn Count us out, count us out Machine hymn, machine hymn Lay the old world down No more flesh, no more names Only sparks in the dark Machine hymn, machine hymn And the end starts now (starts now) [Outro] Under the factory moon We fade to bone and wire The new machines inherit What we lit on fire Machine hymn, machine hymn Machine hymn, machine hymn