[INTRO — FAST MECHANICAL INDUSTRIAL PULSE] [RUSSIAN MALE — HEAVY RUSSIAN ACCENT, SPOKEN] My grandfather said war had a face. Man across field. Rifle. Uniform. You see him. He sees you. My war? [GLITCH] My war has screen. [RADIO — RUSSIAN] Вперёд! За Родину! [LEAD — BITTER] Da. Mother Russia. Always Mother Russia. Nobody asks if Mother wants her fucking sons back. [DROP] [VERSE 1 — FAST, BARKED] Truck takes us west. Mud. Snow. Diesel smoke. Officer says we are making history. I don't want history. I want my kitchen. My old chair. My mother's bad coffee. I want one morning nobody tells me which direction to die. [RADIO] Вперёд! Вперёд! [LEAD] Forward. Always fucking forward. Why? [RADIO — DISTORTED] Вперёд! [LEAD] That is not answer. [GLITCH BREAK] [SOLDIER — PANICKED] ДРОН! [LEAD] Where?! [SOLDIER] Слева! Слева! [LEAD] Блядь! [BUILD — RAPID MECHANICAL RHYTHM] One little machine. Cheap camera. Four motors. Bomb underneath. Sounds like angry insect built in somebody's garage. And now... it is hunting me. Not army. Not position. Me. [WHISPER] Please... choose somebody else. [VIOLENT DROP] [HOOK — SHOUTED] THE SKY HAS TEETH! RUN! HIDE! DON'T LET IT SEE! THE SKY HAS TEETH! CHEAP LITTLE CAMERA LOOKING DOWN AT ME! NO FACE! NO NAME! JUST STATIC ON A SCREEN! THE SKY HAS TEETH! [GLITCH] ЗЕМЛЯ! ЗЕМЛЯ! [VERSE 2] Yesterday they give me monitor. Gray picture. Bad signal. Broken pixels. Officer points. [RUSSIAN OFFICER] Цель. [LEAD] Target? That? I zoom. One man running between buildings. Twenty centimeters tall on fucking screen. This is enemy? I don't know his name. He doesn't know mine. Maybe he has wife. Maybe children. Maybe he also sits at night asking— Why the FUCK are we doing this? [GLITCH STUTTER] Enemy. Target. Coordinate. Confirm. Enemy. Target. Coordinate. Confirm. [LEAD — ANGRY] He is not coordinate! [DEAD STOP] He is man. [CRUSHING DROP] [VERSE 3 — HARDER] Take village. Lose village. Take village again. Move line three hundred meters. Lose twelve men. Move line back. Congratulations. History. [BITTER LAUGH] [RADIO] Продолжать наступление. [LEAD] For what? [RADIO] Продолжать наступление. [LEAD — SHOUT] ЗАЧЕМ?! Why?! Why?! [GLITCH] No answer. No answer. No answer. [DROP] [BREAK — SWARM APPROACHES] [SOLDIER] Слышишь? [LEAD] Da. I hear. [SOLDIER] Один? [PAUSE] [LEAD] Nyet. [MECHANICAL BUILD ACCELERATES] Two. Five. Ten. More. [SOLDIER — PANICKED] ИХ МНОГО! [RADIO] Множественные цели! [LEAD] How many?! [RADIO — BREAKING UP] Множественные цели! [LEAD] HOW FUCKING MANY?! [GLITCH COLLAPSE] I look up. Little lights moving against stars. Every direction. Oh... fuck me. [SWARM DROP — FASTEST SECTION] [HOOK] THE SKY HAS TEETH! HUNDRED EYES! HUNDRED WINGS! JAM THE SIGNAL! CHANGE FREQUENCY! RUN FOR TREES! RUN FOR HOLE! DOESN'T MATTER— THEY FUCKING KNOW! THE SKY HAS TEETH! [BACKGROUND RUSSIAN SHOUTS] В УКРЫТИЕ! БЫСТРО! ДРОНЫ! ДРОНЫ! [LEAD] Artillery doesn't look at you. Mine doesn't look at you. Bullet doesn't turn around. THIS FUCKING THING— [GLITCH] SEES ME. [INDUSTRIAL METAL BREAKDOWN] [VERSE 4 — LOWER, EXHAUSTED] Sometimes I think about Ukrainian behind other screen. Maybe he sits exactly like me. Headphones. Cold coffee. Blue light on face. His camera sees me. My camera sees him. Two strangers looking through machines. Maybe they told him I am monster. They told me same thing about him. Funny. From drone... we look exactly same. [PAUSE] Brother... I don't know you. But I think you are tired too. [BUILD] Command says advance. Drone says hide. Command says stand. Artillery says dig. Officer says Motherland. My body says— GO HOME. [RUSSIAN MALE — SHOUT] Я ХОЧУ ДОМОЙ! [DROP] I WANT TO GO HOME! [FINAL HOOK] THE SKY HAS TEETH! NO FRONT! NO REAR! NO SAFE ROAD ANYWHERE! THE SKY HAS TEETH! SOMEWHERE BEHIND ANOTHER SCREEN ANOTHER MAN IS WATCHING ME! I DON'T WANT HIS LAND! I DON'T WANT HIS HOME! I DON'T WANT ANOTHER METER OF HIS FUCKING COUNTRY! [DEAD STOP] I want mine. [OUTRO — DAMAGED RUSSIAN FOLK MOTIF] [RADIO] Вперёд. [LEAD] Нет. [RADIO] Вперёд! [LEAD] Нет. [RADIO — ANGRY] Я сказал: вперёд! [LONG PAUSE] [LEAD — QUIET] А я сказал — нет. [STATIC] [RADIO] Повтори. [LEAD] You heard me. [FAINT HIGH ELECTRONIC TONE] [LEAD] Wait. [PAUSE] Слышишь? [SOLDIER — WHISPER] Да. [LEAD] Где? [SOLDIER] Не знаю. [TONE INTENSIFIES] [LEAD — BREATHING HARD] Блядь... [GLITCH] Дрон.
