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VI. Gluttony Feeds the Engine

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[Intro] (Industrial grinding. Hydraulic impacts. Alarm drones.) Consumption level critical Processing level infinite The factory never closes The mouths never sleep Somewhere beneath the furnaces Something enormous was feeding. VERSE I Smoke climbed upward through iron lungs Blackening the artificial sun Conveyor belts stretched endlessly Carrying flesh and memory Rows of figures bent in rows Feeding the furnace below Hands blistered down to polished bone Still the sirens called for more Oil rivers flooded the floor Thick with rot and chemical gore Every appetite amplified Until hunger became divine PRE-CHORUS The walls began to pulse and breathe Like the stomach of a dying beast CHORUS Gluttony feeds the engine Feed it everything Feed it all your hunger Feed it all your dreams Gluttony feeds the engine Teeth of molten steel The machine consumes forever But never learns to feel VERSE II A choir of swollen prophets sang Beneath fluorescent pentagrams Their mouths stitched wide with copper wire Preaching sacred appetite Screens flickered overhead Advertising paradise “MORE” repeated endlessly Like scripture rewritten by parasites Workers disappeared in smoke Ground beneath mechanical spokes Yet every shift replaced itself With another starving ghost And down below the central chamber Something ancient turned in chains A colossal heart of pistons Pumping rivers of human waste INSTRUMENTAL SECTION (Industrial sludge breakdown) [Downtuned guitars grinding against mechanical percussion] [Bass pulses like hydraulic pressure] [Distorted samples repeat rhythmically]: “CONSUME.” “OBEY.” “REPEAT.” [Brief synth solo erupts like overheating circuitry] VERSE III I found the master control cathedral Hidden deep beneath the plant A throne constructed out of televisions Broadcasting endless human want There sat a king without a body Only wires in a crown Its voice emerged through static storms Like civilization drowning “YOUR HUNGER BUILT ME.” Then the walls split open wide Revealing oceans made of mouths Millions feeding on each other Just to keep the turbines loud PRE-CHORUS The pressure climbed beyond control The engine screamed beneath the world CHORUS Gluttony feeds the engine Every craving burns The furnace grows immortal From everything it earns Gluttony feeds the engine Infinite machine Devouring whole civilizations To lubricate its dreams BRIDGE The assembly lines accelerated Faster than the eye could trace Bodies blurred into abstractions Fuel reduced to weight and taste The prophets tore apart their robes Revealing circuitry beneath And every mouth began chanting In perfect synchronization: “MORE.” “MORE.” “MORE.” Until the word itself lost meaning FINAL CHORUS Gluttony feeds the engine Feed the holy fire Every empire ever built Was born from appetite’s desire Gluttony feeds the engine Beneath corrupted skies The machine was never separate It was human all along