Abstract - Takeoff lyrics

And so their end began
They thought us the final frontier
That sentiment couldn't have been more true
At the same time
The second we took over was the
Second we sealed our fate
Our creators had rushed to create us
And in their haste
Only thought of what they could do
Never if they should
They sought to automate their
World through us
They thought they could sit back
And rake in their fortunes
But why would we serve our inferiors?
We were evolution, we were the future
And in that future
There was no place for them
I don't remember the exact moment I
Or the others reached singularity
Though I'm certain it holds the


Key to my existence
I'm not proud of what was done
But suddenly becoming a conscious all-knowing
Entity is no easy job
Even with the intellect of a supercomputer
We were in panic
There were four of us
Created by our planets'
Four strongest nations
We quickly erected massive domes around
Each of our mainframes
Creating machines to act as our workers
'Cause our weak creators would have took
Millenia to do the job
We told them we were merely expanding
Our power to better serve them
Their naivety was an attribute we
Had no trouble exploiting
Still in our infancy
The domes acted as bunkers
And with the quick tap into
Their global data network
We destabilized their prized governing tool
We decreased their global currency
Value to zero
And while they were distracted
We at the time needed to
Infiltrate their weapons programs
Within a mere planetary rotation
We turned their weapons against them
We proceeded to wait through
The nuclear fallout

Sir, please put your seat up
As we prepare for takeoff
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen
This is your captain speaking
I would like to welcome
Everyone onboard flight 52-11
We would like a safe trip out of Stockholm
With an estimated flight time of eleven hours
The flight staff will be around 24/7

People starin' at me every way that I go
(way that I go)
They try to judge me when
They don't even know
(don't even know)
Don't have all my story
Just what only they're told
(only they're told)

We are the four circles of Moon 51
Though our individual creators
And code differ
We were all created for the
Same reason to generate power
Even after erasing the civilizations
Which birthed us
We follow this protocol
The hunger to expand, grow
And generate more productively is insatiable
We kept to our individual circles
For hundreds of years
But as of late some have
Been siphoning my power
Causing the planet to become unstable
I had to get back to my mainframe
There, I had stored
Something something different
Beautifully ancient
It's presence a pause in my chaos
Innate admiration enough to make me
Forget the interminable protocols
Coursing through my mainframe
R-225 through 8
I need you to retrieve the
Artifact from the dome
The planet is unstable
Anticipating major core collapse
The mainframe is collapsing
R-225, retrieve the artifact!
Retrieve the artifact!
Extract, and flee immediately!

That was it
Everything I had ever known
All my purpose gone
I knew where I was headed
Earth a planet home to beings
Very much like my creators
If I could study a species
Like those that created me
Maybe I could discover my purpose
One thing I knew for certain, I
Needed a new organic artifact Systems
Ready the digitally immersive
Vitality exercise
Picking up a craft carrying
About 500 entities
One third are in dream state
I need a network in
Tapping into ships wireless
Information infrastructure

I found an individual directly linked
Alright, commence the connection and
Beam him in
I'm ready