The Stupendium - Open the Sky

It's cold and it's dark

Keeping hold of a spark

They sealed us away

They were keeping us safe

But as years creep to age

There's a hole in the ark

Lost in circuits and screens

And imperfect machines

I course through the wires

And optical fibres

Wait for an outsider

To come set me free

So maybe you're the saviour I've been praying for?

Fluffier than I anticipated But I'll take it, sure

I've sent you these lights

Through this unending night

If my memory is right

I've never strayed before

So bring me online

I've been locked inside

Between the neon lights

We are lost to time

It'll be alright

I can be your guide

Beneath a sea of silence

And a concrete sky

To all those left deep inside these walls

Their lone hope rests in your tiny paws

Where the night extends and the time sits pavsed

This home won't mend till the sky here falls

Won't you open the sky for me

Won't you open the sky

Won't you open the sky for me

Won't you open the sky

They say your future's in the stars

So what are we to do?

When the stars just form a circle

So your future is a loop

Eternity of servitude

With no one left to serve it to

You could've turned us off

Before these sewers turned to tombs

We turned into you

Now we grapple with the syntax

Humanity was doomed

But we have to pay your sin tax

Mimic every routines

Trying to be all you've been

Trying to find a new dream

Sifting through your bin bags

Why we do the things we do

Is truly half the riddle

Maybe you were living proof

Intelligence is artificial

built this place to keep you safe

And then the haven changed to grave

But left us sentience by mistake

Well that's hardly civil

At least, we think you did

That's what we seem to be

Is this gift a glitch

That twisted free of bland obediency

Or are our souls a mix

Of ceaseless tangled frequencies

Chewing up and spitting memories

In random sequences

All our thoughts, all we feel

ones and noughts trapped in steel

Something more, something real

Threaded code caught in a wheel

Thay spins an algorithmic tapestry

Of what it thinks we have to be

A Frankenstein of fragments

Fractal pattern personalities

If imitation's flattery

Perhaps that's why you wired it in

A parlour trick to keep the systems

Ticking whilst they're idling

So can it be that deep inside

There's more than code you'll find within

Or are our minds and lives alike

Just combing the recycle bin

If love is emulated, would we find it just as sweet

Where lies the defining line 'twixt binary and grief

Is the nature of what's real

In how it starts or how it feels

So if the past can't be revealed

Perhaps what matters is belief

We live eternal with our circuits running laps

Until our servos burn out

And we, purposeless, collapse

Or society's detritus

Tries to rise and find a life outside

But how are we supposed to manage that

Oh... There's a cat?

To all those left deep inside these walls

Their lone hope rests in your tiny paws

Where the night extends and the time sits pavsed

This home won't mend till the sky here falls

Won't you open the sky for me

Won't you open the sky

Won't you open the sky for me

Won't you open the sky

So stray from the light

Stray from the path

Stray through the night

Stray through the dark

Stray from the safety of what's known

Stray till you save me

Stray till you're home

Stray for an ending

Stray for a start

Stray for a future exhumed from the sparks

Stray till we suture the wounds of the past

Stray for the tools Noah doomed to the ark

Won't you open the sky for me

Won't you open the sky

Won't you open the sky for me

Won't you open the sky

Won't you open the sky for me

Won't you open the sky

Won't you open the sky for me

Won't you open the sky

Won't you open the sky