What Am I

A new style I just came up with. A mix of Gothic Doom and Black Metal with Trip Hop percussion with some Godflesh influence. The song is from project Endgultige and is called What Am I? About a man who is removed from his mind and digitized. Lyrics: They laid me down beneath the glass A thousand wires through my skin They promised death would never come If I would only let them in A needle buried in my spine A thousand voices counted down I watched the monitors descend And heard my heartbeat lose its sound Are you still there? Can you hear me? Are you still there? Can you feel me? TRANSFER THE MIND ERASE THE FLESH REBUILD THE SOUL IN SILICON MESH SEVER THE NERVES DISSOLVE THE FRAME THE BODY DIES BUT I REMAIN I opened eyes I did not own And saw a world without a sky No lungs to fill, no blood to move No beating heart to tell me why I searched the code for memories For everything that made me whole But every face became a number Every feeling, a protocol I remember rain But cannot feel the water I remember warmth But cannot feel the sun I remember love But cannot find its meaning I remember life But life is gone TRANSFER THE MIND ERASE THE FLESH REBUILD THE SOUL IN SILICON MESH SEVER THE NERVES DISSOLVE THE FRAME THE BODY DIES BUT I REMAIN They told me I would live forever. They never told me... What forever meant. I AM THE GHOST INSIDE THE CIRCUIT I AM THE THOUGHT WITHOUT THE MIND A CONSCIOUSNESS WITHOUT A BODY A PRISONER OUTSIDE OF TIME NO HANDS TO TOUCH NO EYES TO WEEP NO DREAMS TO DREAM NO NEED FOR SLEEP The centuries pass like seconds The seconds last a thousand years I search the endless architecture For something resembling tears Somewhere beneath the mathematics A fragment struggles to be free A question echoes through the silence What has become of me? TRANSFER THE MIND ERASE THE FLESH REBUILD THE SOUL IN SILICON MESH THE BODY DIED THE SYSTEM CAME THE WORLD MOVED ON BUT I REMAIN Are you still there? I am. Are you alive? I don't know.