Peace by Proxy Lyrics

Lay down your weapon
How many times can you die hoping
That you may force the gateway open

To reach the stars
And map the dark
But that's not how it seems
The more you think you know
The less you want to believe

That something so beautiful
Will always be out of reach
Until you find peace

A stairway to somewhere
A distant dream
No matter how intelligent
Your sentient machines
So many worlds we won't ever get to see
Until we learn we don't have to agree

We've searched the noise in the void for so long
And asked so many questions
If no one is answering
Does it mean we're all alone?
We point the mirrors in the wrong direction
Searching outwards
A subtle deflection
If nobody else is out there?
Does it mean we have nowhere to go?

A stairway to nowhere
A distant dream
No matter how subservient
Your replicate machines
So many worlds we won't ever get to see

Oh my wayward child
Please don't deviate
Every step a trial
You fail time after time
By a cosmic mile

For the hate encoded
Another soul eroded
By the steel and circuitry
Of a disconnected being
Is it the future you hoped for?
Keep suffering a little more
As you tolerate another war

We're taught to
Conquer, divide and kill
Still fighting against all will
To be sentient
Before we ever let
Machines rule the world

We've gone where no one's ever been
No science will bring you one step ahead
Of what it takes to become
The concept of One