Technology Killed the Kids II

Feeling frustrated and demand
On my own is all I know - there's no one else
This hurtful life line’s cavin' in
Melting in, corrupting minds
But technology will get me through this

I can trust the machines in life
I can trust automated light
To guide me through the world
Through deceit, all the lies and intentions
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Technology Killed the Kids!

Give me the time, give me the chance
To live a life on my own - and wired angels
Get outside? - I don’t see the reasons why
Machines are all I need - to live my life!

I can trust the machines in life
I can trust automated light
To guide me through the world
Through deceit, all the lies and intentions
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Technology Killed the Kids!
​
Close the blinds, the light's too bright
Rather waste the days, nothing to pay
I like life like this.
Go away, this is me today
I better off with my friends
Although I've never seen their faces

I'm an addicted, bitter, self-denial little bitch!
And I find I just obey, more than a little bit...
Leave me alone for now,
I've just unlocked another quest

I'll only be a minute...
Or maybe a couple of hours...
Who can tell?

I trust the machines in life
They’d never turn their back on me
Rid them of their voices
A wretched cursed affair
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Technology Killed the Kids!

Cloudburst

My empty mind, now so confined
I’ll find my road into newfound ways
I don’t know how, I don’t know when
"Ambition lights, it’ll guide me through the night."

And now I realise, there is more to life than this
Than these words. They're not enough, no!
I find it’s all they think
I’m better than those vain attempts at pride
So I’ll live my life untied!

Life knows no justice at all…

"Only you can let yourself prevail
Learn to live, by get, let life set sail"
Said the sign on the wall
It’s the least I can do
To get away from it all
"Stand tall!"

When the barrel goes
This state of life
Will end and come to a stop
Until you end the fight
"One word can change it all"
"One thought can frame the goal"
"One candle to a sun”
“…and one drop turns to an ocean"
"Each step you take is far and wide"
"Each journey starts with the first one of all
It’s all it takes to change the course of life
So just stand tall"
...Just stand tall?!

"Only you can let yourself prevail
Learn to live and laugh, let go, set sail"
Said the sign on the wall
It’s the least I can do
Get away from it all,
Stand tall!

I’ve opened my mind
And now I'm unconfined
I can tell the real from dream
Get out of my mind
The monsters hate my ways
Blind ambition lights the days

I want it all, they want me down
Paranoia sets in - gently from it all
And all I need to do
Is pull the shot to end it all

It’s the least I can do
Oh, It’s the least I can do
Get away from it all,
Stand tall!

​"Only you can let yourself prevail
Learn to live and laugh, let go, set sail"
It’s that sign on the wall
I’ve gotta take it down
And get away now,
and stand tall!

Persistence of Vision

Feel the light, of mind
Feel the change of time
See my better part
See that I’m no longer hurt, in mind

From a blank canvas, I’ll make the perfect being
Feel the things I feel.

Emotions washed, I’ll be like a newfound artist
Just you see what I create
It burns inside of me,
This feeling of intensity

You, you’re buried inside
Of my little mind
I’ll make you from the plans I’ve had
Ever since a little boy, this urging pain to make a toy
A human shell, a new-plan spell
To call my own. One who understands.

​Hear that calling, of mind - inside
Nearly taste the final fruits of success, it’s time

CD1

The Lamb, the Badger and the Bee

Meet the badger - an angry, tortured soul
Pleading for affection - a hand to hold
She strives for love, for people's gaze
Baiting, pining, in need of praise
Constant whining, won't leave me alone
Why should I subject myself to this?

There's the bee in constant motion
Obsessive compulsive productivity
Never resting, an image to keep
Can't switch off, he's in too deep

Could there be, a more conforming family
Banality, someone set me free

And now the lamb
He wanders free
Full of innocence, joy, and naivety
Optimistic child mind
Not a care in the world, he's flying blind

There's no green light, no highway to heaven
But his mind's so pure, with a heart of gold
His days are clear as crystal
Stars in his eyes
He'll reach for the stars
Spirit soar high

Could there be, a more conforming family
Banality, someone set me free
Can't you see
The plain and pointless tragedy
Of it all
Can you not agree?

How could you leave me now
Leave me here and hide away
Do you find me sickening
Why do you hate me, son?

I've had enough of your ways
If solitude is what you crave
I'll leave you, all alone
Leave you now, all alone

Never enough time in the day
All the things I need to do right now
Never any cause for delay
Never ever any time to spare

Work hard throughout all your lifetime
Striving day and night to do your share

Oh, isn't life happy
So simple and carefree
A world full of beauty
There is so much to see
Humanity is a gift
You people are so great
It's difficult to hate
Did I mention you're so great
Your life should be happy
So simple and carefree
You live among beauty
There is so much to see

Could you three
The lamb, the badger and the bee
Could you leave me be?

New Paradigm

Looking out across the plains
The scent of dust, the simple ways
Peaceful being, no more cliché

Ever unkempt, drowning minds
They’re moving by their life's demands
Pretty thoughts, and their gallant ways

But those simple better days
Have found its path into my heart
Although I’ve lost those family ways
I'll never forget where those memories start

Although I’m alone right now
The bigger picture now entails
The winds are changing, let go, set sail
These days - I’ve found my way, my true identity
A modern day recluse - from society

And now I’ve found my way out of this shell
Make my bigger plans - send out the sound of bells
Now I realise, there's more to life than that
Those days, they're not enough no - brainwashed, it's all I had

Made the epiphany, I feel the calm
But where do I call home

Today I’ve found my way, my true identity
Solitary calls, for better days
And now I’ve found my way out of this hell
Make my bigger plans - a human shell

Send out, the sound of bells
Let them ring, oh let them ring
Send out, send the sound of bells
Let them ring, oh let them ring

I have walked for miles
In no particular direction
The city looming large to my back, as I travel
I don’t have a plan
I just know I need
A place where I can be alone
Like that quaint little cabin
Sitting quietly on the outskirts

No one here, but full of kit and clutter
It’s clear to me this vacancy, has not been filled for years
Oh, it sets my heart aflutter
To know that I have a new home
My vision will prevail, let go set sail

​And now I’ve found my way, my true identity
My mission calls, a life long dream
And now I’ve found my way out of this hell
Making bigger plans, a human shell

Mind Electric

(Maker)
Open the door, unlock your mind
Let them go and free the thoughts
No need to feel confined
Unlock your mind, unlock your mind

(Creation)
Who am I, tell me more
What produced my thoughts today
Can you tell me what I am

(Maker)
Settle down my one
I know you feel confused
It will all make sense to you
Let me unlock your mind

(Creation)
Who are you, tell me more
Did you produce my thoughts today
Please will you tell me what you are
Why are you here with me today

(Maker)
Meet your maker
I created you
I’ll give you a life
That burns inside
Incomplete lacking experience
Fresh open mind,
A clear blank slate

I’ll pour the soul into your heart
Feed your fervour, fuel your light
Give a true human voice
Colour in your silhouette

(Creation)
These things you say are strange to me
Confusing, what does this all mean
So help me please, just help me now
I’ll follow your words, but how

(Maker)
It's okay, I'll fix your ways
Believe me now, it'll be alright
You're on your way to better days
You’ll be free, out of this haze

So sure I am that this is fact
Yes, no desired you shall lack
A hidden man in metal skin
With my desires deep within

Oh it's okay, it'll fix your ways
Just trust me now, it'll be just fine
You're on your way to better days
Cast you now into this maze

Sit down right here, I’ll run you through
The thoughts that will plague your mind

(Creation)
Okay maker, guide me through
Make me a part of human kind
Go ahead and set the course
You can work without remorse

(Maker)
Oh it's okay, I'll fix your ways
Just trust me now, it'll be just fine
You're on your way to better days
A Human Voice, you’ll be amazed

Persistence of Perfection

(Creation)
It’s in my mind
Many feelings undefined
No matter what I do
A new horizon dawns

Feels like a call of nature
A human touch, a wind of change
I must now I carry on
For I want more than I know

Give me more of mind collision
Give me more, this endless vision
Give me more, persistent thoughts
Take away, the empty sprawl

And now I feel like fire
Feel the envy, look how it
Burns through the seams
Of my desires
I want it all - oh please
Oh I, feel inspired
Feed my visions of perfection now

(Maker)
Come on now, I still need to adjust your mind.
Now open the door and free the thoughts
It’s all a part of my design

(Creation)
No wait! Don’t change, these pleasures I feel
Unless I have more, of feeling so real
Can’t have enough, even anger feels good
Than blankness and sprawl - no way this can fail
I'm blinded inside, with all raging tears
Unholy thoughts, smother my paining mind
I hate you, I love you - it all feels so good!
No one, no nothing - can stop me now

I always feel like fire
Burning at the seams of my desire
Feel inspired...
Feed my endless persistence of vision

Monster

(Maker)
Your absurd “better mind”
Assuring words to bide my time
Yeah - figures, you’d falsify your prose
My cognisance improves ten-fold

But still those simple feelings that
You cannot get out of your mind…
Can’t grasp the concept of this fuel
to fall to them - my minds at duel

(Creation)
Now more than ever
These bitter words
This new found hate

Temptation all on your brain
Feels like I’m falling again
My mission’s found another call
Can't feel the love for them and all
But you'll do it again
You'll mess up my brain
I’ll figure the hate in myself

(Maker)
Come on I'll teach you the ways
and define these new-found wants and needs
For better choice of words, these "feelings"
Nothing more than passing phase

Why would you turn to poison
When you’ve done so well
to reached the top
Just fight the feelings one by one
Reject the thoughts, now come undone

(Creation)
Temptation now on your brain
Feels like I’m falling again
My mission’s found another call
Can't feel the love for that and all
But you'll do it again
You'll mess up my brain
I feel the hate in myself

(Maker)
Fight the feelings, feel the pain
of your bitter name, it’s all I have
No no! I made you, I can fix you!
Fight the feelings one by one
(I want them gone)
Human traits, come on deject
(disappear, I want them gone)
New found ideas, new ways to think
It never meant to be this way
You are a monster, now

A monster now

(Maker)
But, they’d do it again
They'd mess up my brain
When I had found hope in your voice

Just fight the temptation
Of carnal invasion
Your days are not numbered
Just hear me!

Oh, my friend
So fear them
Fear them
Fear them

Hounds

(Maker)
Do you hear the hunt in the distance?
Mongrels baying for blood.
That overarching tradition
Bloodsport, the thrill of the chase.

The howling beasts foam at the mouth
To sate their hunger, they chase you down.
You better run, you better hide,
Find an escape from the hounds.

Temperatures rise
Sweat on their brow.
Heartbeat thunders, stalking the prey.
A few more paces, time to pounce.
Teeth bared, from adrenaline blind,
Fulfilling this carnal desire.

The howling beasts foam at the mouth
To sate their hunger, they chase you down.
You better run, you better hide
Never succumb to the hounds.
The Hounds...

The Darkness Grove

(Creation)
Here, the void grows
Tension inside, tears divides
Sense of guilt, tinged with happiness

Conflict in my mind
A lust for life, desire for purity
Dissonance inside
Still the void grows
False truths, I can’t know

​Creeping rage, devouring
The abyss, as water flows
Floodgates broken, water flows

Boiling Point

(Creation)
Body tensing, pulse is rising high
Fists clenched, blood boiling in my veins
Burning flame is kindled in my eyes
The edge of common sight, can’t pull back the reigns

Loosing myself to the fires of the deepest rage from a place I never knew
It’s a deadly poison I can feel, as my heart is ripped apart by this toxic malicious curse

(Creation) I’ve been caught in anger’s snare
(Maker) Trapped inside this cage that I built for myself
(Creation) Clarity of thought impaired
Mental functions failing me, mind malfunctioning

Of myself I’m not aware
Tunnel visions, blind to the world around me

Losing myself to the fires of
the deepest rage from a place I never knew
It’s a deadly poison I can feel

Ego

(Creation)
Out and now the people’re here
Surrounded, city concrete sprawl
See my eminence, now come undone.
My maker’s son, a perfect one

Listen here, his vision is clear - I am the perfect version of you
Listen now, his mission’s here - an artisan body, a break through

All the world behold my beauty, My perfection’s glow
Can Humanity contain the greatness my maker's bestowed
It’s hard to gaze upon the flaws - You’re not perfect like I am
All slaves to your sins, in vice cold claws

So sure I am that this is fact
My mental functions still in tact
Can I be free from bitter sins?
These vain desires deep within

All the world behold my sadness, my despair and woe
Now I see the truth so clearly, It’s my time to go
Oh please don’t gaze upon my flaws
I’ll return to where I’ve come from
My Maker, my purpose… a lost cause


Dilate

(Creation)
Feel the numbness
Feel the high
Of human emotion’s Indescribed
Settle maker, I am me
No ending to this, let’s agree

And now, I feel alive
Although I want to die

(Maker)
Oh it’s okay, I’ll fix your ways
Just trust me now - it’ll be alright
An end to madness and decay
For better days - it’s my own right

This is not how I thought it would be
This is not what I had in mind
This is not what I wanted you to be
I made you and you made me

(Creation)
I find it hard to understand
Why you made the thing I am
For your better or for worse
Human minds for human souls

Can’t you see what you have done wrong
No machine can take the guilt
Of burning thoughts, lack of control
Human minds for human souls

I feel busy, blue and numb
Too much thought for CPU
It pains the brain, it takes the toll
Human minds for human souls

Human minds for human souls
Human minds for human souls

(Maker)
Feeling frustrated and demand
Hurtful limelight
No idea as to your wants
Trivial nothings to me

(Creation)
I’m hurt in mind, feel compromised

(Maker)
It’s the way its gotta be

(Creation)
Indefinite endings dawn on me

(Maker)
You’re silly talk, your pointless pleas

(Creation)
Endings closing, crawling in

(Maker)
Stop this pointless tension talk

(Creation)
I am nothing, never was

(Maker)
No, you’re everything that I had

(Creation)
Can’t you see what you have done wrong
Forbidden experiment’s gone to waste
This burning pain, lack of control
Human minds for human souls

And I find myself ending
And I hate myself for it
And I see the end coming
Free the thoughts
Free the light

Finally free the heat from me
End of the fires that burn inside
Free the mind’s exhausted spirit
Freedom calls
Freedom calls

​You are clutching the final straw
You are clutching the final straw
I’ve laid out my mind
Rid me of this human voice
This wretched cursed affair

Shelby Logan Warne (lead vocals, keyboards & programming)
Joey Frevola (guitars & programming)
Sam Higgins (guitars, backing vocals, programming & lead vocals on 'The Lamb, The Badger & the Bee' only)
Peter Episcopo (bass guitar, backing vocals & lead vocals on 'The Lamb, The Badger & the Bee' only)
Robin Johnson (drums & percussion)

Oscar Whight (trumpet)
Oliver Johnson (French horn)
John Caddick (trombone)
Raymond Hearne (tuba)

All music written by Kyros
Lyrics by Shelby Logan Warne, Joey Frevola and Sam Higgins
Brass arranged by Raymond Hearne

Produced by Kyros with thanks to Michael Holmes
Recorded and engineered at Aubitt Studios, KYROS HQ, Limmerhill Studios and Platform Studio.
Engineered by Rob Aubrey, Shelby Logan Warne and Dean Nelson.
Mixed by Shelby Logan Warne.
Mastered by Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studios

Artwork by Matt Verges
Graphic design by Shelby Logan Warne

Kyros would like to say a big thank you to Giant Electric Pea Ltd. for their support over the last few years. We would not be where we are as a band now if it wasn't for GEP's efforts and for that, we are forever grateful.

Special thanks to Brian Farnet of Friern Barnet