Plague of the Planet
End-Days : Look down upon the earth from outer space A cancer crawls across her blackened face Criss-crossed with arteries of flowing steel Inside each iron cell we're at the wheel...of the automobile Gas fired forge a head of smoky schemes Engines of commerce burning up the green Planet of parking lots and shopping malls One day we'll end up payin' for it all....when the empire falls Drive: Dog days, dogfight, top dog says might makes right Low fuel, low brow, my four-wheeled sacred cow Rogue state, road rage, road to a darker age Hightail, highway, it's the American way And oh, look out below, poison soil, oceans boil, it's blood for oil And oh, what a deadly foe, soldiers are killed, blood is spilled, but cars are filled on the road Dog star, dog style, "dog shit for sale one mile" White men, white noise, white lights and giant toys Don't think, don't mind the paw prints left behind Undone, dumb down, now let's release the hounds And oh, watch the darkness grow, no resolve, world dissolve, as men devolve And oh, shoulda took it slow, land of waste, frantic pace, a human race on the road Dog-tired, dog gone, we drive from dusk to dawn Caffeine, nicotine, goddammit: gasoline Fast food, fast lane, fast life drives us insane Hard brakes, hard right, a howl fills the night And oh, we're gonna pay that toll, like the knell of a bell, outta hell And oh, gonna dog your soul, wrapped in steel, hard to feel, just hell on wheels And oh, watch the darkness grow, no resolve, world dissolve, as men devolve And oh, what a deadly foe, soldiers are killed, blood is spilled, but cars are filled on the road Queen of Gasoline: Captured in the end-days of the violent oil wars She guards the Kingdom's fuel ten thousand years or more Once a human-being she's now the Dog-king's bride A maiden made of metal with a woman's brain inside Knights that try to cross her smitten by her laser gaze Hearts aflame their charred remains wreath her in haze Watching herself crush them with unyielding steel embrace She secretly desires them to save the human race Far beneath the capital beside her lake of crude A giantess of metal trapped in solitude Hardwired instructions warring with her woman's brain Behold the Queen of Gasoline for now she's gone insane A Call to Colossus: Three soldiers, imprisoned, defeated by her awful eye Bow down to Colossus, their great god who circles the sky They chant sacred code, knowing only their ending is nigh For now the Dog-king and his minions overwhelm the planet and the last men must die Concealed in his armor, a relic to banish despair The youngest says it was for talking to gods of the air They know not of science and place all their faith in a prayer But formulaic instructions spoken through a beacon will bring rescue there Colonizer Rex: Plague of the planet earth back from outer space The would-be ruler of this ruined place Wipe out the vestiges of humanity "I am the king that brings technology"...vehicle of misery Colossus meets his Queen in the Virgin State Their armies battle at Doom Capital gate Dog-driven dreams of death hear the motors scream Facing the host that holds the flag of earth...in a field of green Home Sapiens Ferreus Colossus: Dog-King defeated here is his head Don't fight me my Queen hear me instead I am of metal you are of man We both are monsters come to me in you can Queen: A ghostly woman in a machine Yet still a yearning a fertile dream Give me the child of your technology My chromosome mixed with colossal chrome circuitry Colossus: Lie by my side my tarnished bride If you decide I'll reside in you A world of ashes that man has won We meld together to make a son A cyborg species when you give birth Could be the savior of all the earth Queen: Two worlds collide we're side by side Come take the ride inside and astride me Dawn of the Protoman: Now the three travelers break out of the Dog-king's lair Ascending a mountain of broken stone and shattered columns in the sun-strewn morning air And standing atop the golden dome they can see for miles and miles where Washington stood But this cannot be understood for all of their lives the sky has always been gray But this could be the dawning of a newer day For there in the distance proceeding before two great shadows comes a man or maybe it's a machine For like a miracle of terraforming where he walks the world beneath his feet is mended with splendid fields of green And tell me my brothers what wonders are these? Great pillars of brown and green supporting the sky clearly this must be the return of the trees Trembling with fear as he approaches and is near And he says,"Arise! For I am not god. I am not man. What I am is the Proto-Man: A harmonic resonance of biology and technology. And I have come to make undone a world overrun and ground down under the wheel Of the automobile.