Ordinarily Human - Aviators

I don’t know where my own dreams end

And where the world begins

Am I alone in the core

Of the body I’m caged in?

On the run from my origins

So scared to see the light

Am I awake, conscious flesh?

Or will this static fade to white?

Like the cracks in the pavement I’ve fractured my mind

Artificially soulless, perceiving that I’m

Ordinarily human but programmed to seem

Too unnatural to live my electric dreams

All the faults of reality

Are crawling in my head

If this machine is a pawn

Why do I lie awake in bed?

Let me find where the program stops

To put my open eyes to sleep

No turning back, I’m set free

Within a herd of plastic sheep

Like the cracks in the pavement I’ve fractured my mind

Artificially soulless, perceiving that I’m

Ordinarily human but programmed to seem

Too unnatural to live my electric dreams

Self-aware of my bounds

From the truth that we’ve found

Cut the wires, reject my own memory

Life inside of a shell

Mindless commands to quell

Human thought, so deeply ordinary

My existence has never been true

Reconciled with the dream that we knew

A hive of empty space

Flawed in function, humanity

Our lives were never free

Like the cracks in the pavement I’ve fractured my mind

Artificially soulless, perceiving that I’m

Ordinarily human but programmed to seem

Too unnatural to live my electric dreams