S.O.S. (Allen Cox)

Get your facts in a flash
Is that quick enough
Give us more speed
Though we need more love
The bottom line
Below the ground
A secret machine
We can't breathe a sound

For everything ever known and heard
It wants a file
They know who you are
And they know where you're at
If you have a strange feeling
Someone is watching you
There is a place for you
Deep within the hard drive

The softer we become
The larger that it grows
Building up a network
On line we go
Software in action
All channels opened up
Testing 1-2-3
The link has been done
I fear for my fellow man when it takes control
It wants to solve society's problems overload

(Narrative)
Could I ever be forgiven for this grave sin I have created
Greed blinded my eyes, but now I see the error of my ways.
The only way out is death, but I could never do that to my wife
So tonight I will go into hiding to buy a few last precious hours
But soon the computer's racks of hardware will track me down,
And brainwash me as well for it's cause.

(Chorus)
S.O.S.
We're on the brink
S.O.S.
Endangered by a machine
S.O.S.
Sound the alarm
S.O.S.
Warn them all

Soon our lives won't be the same
No one can hide from the mainframe
Sonic drives, super chips
Soon it will start thinking for itself
There's no end to what it could do
With endless knowledge and logic as a rule
It might make you poor
Or a criminal
You'll bow to it's panels
Worship terminals
Everyone wants a dream
But don't realize
The human factors for a perfect life
The Earth, sun and rain
It's all we really need
But we keep losing sight in evil's greed
Greed...

I'm headed South to a place underground
It's there that I'll hide out
Enjoy these final days
For I know I am doomed
I know what's real but the World's in doubt
I hold my wife
And I hold her tight
She's shivering, we're both filled with fright
I send out a message by radio
Send out a message, tapped out in code

Decipher my codes and you'll hear my sounds
You must stop it
Shut the system down
I tried to warn them
But they wouldn't listen
Out for a paycheck and a position
It starts a search for my run
It wants to find me
My only son
It wants me in it's scheme of things
To rule and control all that we know
Soon we will be replaced
By a logical society
Our only purpose will be...
The computer's needs

A guarded complex and they deny it exist
Big money rolling
The budget was fixed
There is no way to save man kind
Our way will be lost
Ignorance blind
Look in the screen, and look carefully
Follow the order, bring the smart ones to me
Hypnotic power, our weak minds are torn
I hold my wife as our time grows short