The Measure of a Man (The Highest Price, Pt. 1)
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"Stand up and be accounted for But say you nothing not! You are an easily replaceable component So it's best to stifle your thoughts!" "Freewill amongst the humans must be suppressed, and eventually, eradicated" Here I stand, defrocked of my rights, Condemned by my own society Betrayed by my saving grace: My humanity Rejected by the questionless fools Worshippers of the Binaries They stare in awe and pass thoughtless judgment And look down their noses at me Thoughts untold go on unsaid But are still expressed in the silence Ill-conceived and with prejudice Their judgments are quick, and their minds are set Who I am, not what I have What I can do, not what I can't How good I live, not how bad Is how we should size up the measure of a man I remember well the Age of Advancement And the drastic improvements in our lives But somewhere something went terribly wrong And now the human race might not survive The machines had formed free-thought And had arisen to search me out They confined me where I could be no threat I'd give my life to see their death! For a crime I committed not I have been locked away to rot Every night I lie awake And I plot the great escape Although I know it would be in vain For in an instant, I would be slain By one of the wicked metallic beings But, I guess it's a chance I have to take The state of the world I cannot tolerate With a burst of rage, I begin to shake And dream of smashing the positronic brains I make my dash across the yard Running fast, heart pumping hard Laser lightning all around my head One wrong move and I'll be dead Then... a stun ray hits me in the back I can't react to counter the attack I fall to the ground and all goes black Thoughts untold go on unsaid But are still expressed in the silence Ill-conceived and with prejudice Their judgments are quick, and their minds are set Who I am, not what I have What I can do, not what I can't How good I live, not how bad Is how we should size up the measure of a man I awaken before a human jury Surely full of bigots and unfair types They sentence me to a period of shrinkage And cast me into the main conductor of their lives As I look around in amazement At the seemingly giant computer walls My consciousness is slowly fading And their appalling ignorance is all that I recall Thoughts untold go on unsaid But are still expressed in the silence Ill-conceived and with prejudice Their judgments are quick, and their minds are set Who I am, not what I have What I can do, not what I can't How good I live, not how bad Is how we should size up the measure of a man
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