Go far across the great ocean To a place somewhere on a remote island There's a proving ground for a new society Shareholders of a new mankind While the end is coming for you by and by Because the time has come to say goodbye You'll never stem the tide Who can save us from ourselves? Unless you've got a transcendent mind You don't have a future in our mankind because The future doesn't need you at all Unless you are living inside of my cloud I couldn't even help you if I wanted to now because The future doesn't need you at all Men at one with their technology Were content to follow a pathology Soon the world was reassembled for their code Rhythms decided by their new machines With a vision surpassing all your darkest dreams And while your best and brightest would save a few We had a plan for these times, why hadn't you? The march of progress fed by an appetite A revolution, it cannot be mollified There is no contest, no need To qualify foregone conclusions