[Intro: Cold, quantized drum machine kicks in. A grinding, distorted bass pulse follows. Clipped, angular guitar stabs rhythmically.] [Verse 1: Tight, staccato male vocals, rhythmic delivery] Feed the furnace, stoke the flame Efficiency is the only game Yellow belt, fifteen a second Forty-eight stone is what is reckoned Or twenty-four steel, the math is clean Saturate the line, keep the output lean Steel takes five, a heavy weight Hundred-twenty furnaces for a yellow belt state! [Chorus: Sound widens significantly. Gang shouts with heavy metallic anvil hits on every fourth beat] THE GRID! RELENTLESS! THE RATIO! REPENTLESS! ONE TO ONE, OR THREE TO TWO THE FACTORY DEMANDS IT FROM YOU! BUILD IT RIGHT! A BALANCED LIFE! MAXIMUM THROUGHPUT THROUGH THE NIGHT! A BALANCED LIFE! A BALANCED LIFE! A BALANCED LIFE! A BALANCED LIFE! [Verse 2: Driving rhythmic delivery, guitars clipping] Copper wire, the copper vein Three to two to break the chain Three for the cable, two for the chip Green circuits moving, never let ‘em slip Red chips rising, six to one The plastic and the wire till the job is done Blue chips screaming, twenty deep The electronic harvest that we reap! [Chorus: Gang shouts, heavy industrial clanging] THE GRID! RELENTLESS! THE RATIO! REPENTLESS! ONE TO ONE, OR THREE TO TWO THE FACTORY DEMANDS IT FROM YOU! BUILD IT RIGHT! A BALANCED LIFE! MAXIMUM THROUGHPUT THROUGH THE NIGHT! A BALANCED LIFE! A BALANCED LIFE! A BALANCED LIFE! A BALANCED LIFE! [Bridge: All instruments cut out except for a minimal machine pulse and subtle synth arps tracing a relentless grid] [Breathy vocals] One offshore pump. Twenty boilers. Forty steam engines. The golden ratio of power. On Nauvis ground... Zero point eight-four. Accumulators to every panel. Balance the sun. Balance the dark. [Bridge Build-up: Grinding bass returns, guitars begin to swell with feedback] FOR THE CORE! FOUR REACTORS! TWO BY TWO! FORTY-EIGHT EXCHANGERS PASSING THROUGH! EIGHTY-THREE TURBINES SPINNING LOUD! NUCLEAR FIRE, MAKE US PROUD! [Outro: Slamming back full-force. Rapid fire vocal delivery] TEN RED! TWELVE GREEN! TEN GRAY! TWENTY-FOUR BLUE! FOURTEEN PURPLE! FOURTEEN YELLOW! THE RATIO IS TOTAL! THE RATIO IS ABSOLUTE! A BALANCED LIFE! A BALANCED LIFE! A BALANCED LIFE! A BALANCED LIFE! [Final massive metallic hit followed by immediate silence]
