We will waste away Clouded by darkness If we fail to bring about And by all means The twilight of the machines The collapse of time To an extension in space Calibrated by machines Has bowdlerized our human rhythms We are bound to live a lie This empty shell of an existence we call our life Exiled from presence We are slaves nailed to the wheel And even now we hardly see the earth We lapse into coma with averted eyes The crisis deepens Burnt out are all sparks of resistance And with every wasted hour we choose to kneel Forever we will kneel! We scarcely feel our hearts beat Before they break in protest We will waste away Clouded by darkness If we fail to bring about And by all means The twilight of the machines