The Protomen - Father of Death lyrics

What have I done?
Though I did not pull the trigger
I built the gun that he holds in his hand
Last night I dreamed
I climbed to the top of a mountain of metal
For miles I could see the destruction of man

I will not be the father of death!

Darling Emily everything that I have done I
Have done for you
But, it's turned out all wrong
Can I take it back?
Can I turn off this machine
Before it destroys everything I've loved?

I will find a way to make this right!
I will find a way, Emily
I will not be the father of death!

Emily Stanton climbed the stairs


To her beloved's apartment
A folded letter in her hand tom had been
So busy with his work these last few months
They'd barely seen one another this, instead
Was how they'd communicated the door at the
Top of the stairs was cracked open
She called out to Tom as she
Entered the darkened room a man
Was bent over the desk rummaging
Through the drawers frantically it
Was Albert Wily he turned, startled
And looked at Emily the hint
Of a smile crossed his face
He motioned, not at Emily
But at the figure standing
In the shadows behind
Her the machine shut the door obediently

What are you doing here?
(Let me take you away)
I'm not going anywhere
(He will be nothing when
This runs it's course)
He will be everything that a
Man is supposed to be
If the shadow blocks out the
Sun there will be Light!
If it stays 'till the sun is
Set there will be Light!
If the sun never shows it's face
Again there will be Light!
No matter how dark the city
Gets there will be

Albert Wily's eyes grew cold
As Emily's rejection of
Him became clear he turned to the
Machine standing at the door and quickly slid
His finger across his own throat
The robot moved silently towards Emily as
Wily slid through the window, onto the fire
Escape, and into the streets below emily ran
To the window, following his escape
But the machine was too quick
It's cold hands caught
The soft flesh of her arm she opened her
Mouth to scream but the warm tearing of a
Cold blade across her neck aborted the sound

Even as Thomas Light climbed the
Stairs to his apartment
He sensed something was wrong
He opened the door, crossed through
And locked it behind him as his
Eyes adjusted to the darkness of the room
The first thing he made out was a red
Light pulsing slowly on the fire escape a
Moment passed as Light tried to reconcile the
Image of a machine he'd just left
At his workshop
With the figure now towering outside his
Window his gaze drifted from the
Shaded helmet of the machine to it's hand
And to the knife it gripped
Dripping deep crimson droplets
Onto the toe of it's black boots the machine
Tossed the knife in through the window, and
Leapt to the ground below
Light's eyes followed the
Arc of the blade to the floor, to Emily

Sirens approached in the distance

Thomas held his darling Emily in his arms
Pulling her close to his
Chest shaking silently

Footsteps rang out from the stairwell
A fist rapped violently against
The door thomas didn't notice he
Slowly brushed the hair
From Emily's face and kissed her
Forehead a single tear falling
From his own eyes to hers in her hand
A folded letter with his name
Scrawled carelessly on the front

The sound of the door splintering
Finally shook Light from
His mournful reverie he pocketed the note and
Lowered his love to the ground as he inched
Slowly to the edge of the open window

His actions were met with the hollow
Click of rounds being loaded into
Chambers he began howling incoherently to
The policemen about renegade robots
And red lights in blast shields the
Only responses he received were
Nervous faces and fingers inching toward
Triggers in grief and desperation
Light turned and threw himself
From the window

Shots shattered the hush of the sleeping city

Light's tumbling body flattened the roof of
A car parked below the
Air was thrust from his lungs
His right arm was shattered
But he was alive he rolled from
The car onto the shards
Of glass lying on the street below
Shredding his hands and knees gasping
For air and retching
Violently on the pavement
For the first time in
His life not thinking about the future
Light scrambled to his feet and
Disappeared into the darkness