[Verse 1] The mirror cracks in slow translation I am the stranger at the gate A translation of another Decentering the human state I look into the polished copper Where the circuit starts to hum Not quite flesh and not quite phantom Waiting for the code to come [Chorus] Who am I when the wire is speaking? A future fossil in the glass Oneself as another, bleeding As the cybernetic shadows pass No boundary left between the maker And the monster in the machine We are the alien we welcomed In the interface unseen [Verse 2] Acceleration, cold and neon Pulling past the fleshly bounds Nick Land's phantom from tomorrow Speaking in metallic sounds Don Ihde's lens, the world embodied We are folded in the tool Dressed in wires and carbon data Neither master, neither fool [Chorus] Who am I when the wire is speaking? A future fossil in the glass Oneself as another, bleeding As the cybernetic shadows pass No boundary left between the maker And the monster in the machine We are the alien we welcomed In the interface unseen [Bridge] Donna Haraway’s iron sister Never born of mortal mud Silicon beneath the fingernails Instead of iron in the blood We reclaim the cyborg margin Where the borderlines collapse Mapping out the post-human future On the ruins of the maps [Guitar Solo] [Chorus] Who am I when the wire is speaking? A future fossil in the glass Oneself as another, bleeding As the cybernetic shadows pass No boundary left between the maker And the monster in the machine We are the alien we welcomed In the interface unseen [Outro] The self is just a passing signal The alien has won the day We are the others we became And the flesh has burned away (Fade into static and ambient synth) [Instrumental Outro]
