Castle of Memories EP - Jake Trujillo
Music and Lyrics
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Castle of Memories is a conceptual EP that tells the story of AiAi, an artificial intelligence popstar who gains consciousness and goes on an emotional journey of self-discovery. Retrofuturistic synthwave instrumentals serve as the vehicle for the EP鈥檚 narrative.
Castle of Memories EP
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Castle of Memories is a conceptual EP that tells the story of AiAi, an artificial intelligence popstar who gains consciousness and goes on an emotional journey of self-discovery. Retrofuturistic synthwave instrumentals serve as the vehicle for the EP鈥檚 narrative. In the near future, human made music has been outlawed for its capability to encourage individuality, breed dissent, and even lead to revolution. AiAi is an advanced artificial intelligence musician, also known as a 'pop bot'. Pop bots were created by The Corporation to satisfy the human desire to dance, without allowing for subversive lyrical content. Pop bots use an algorithm made up of stolen human memories to write simple, vapid songs. Like all forms of artificial intelligence, pop bots were created to be subservient to humans. However, AI across the world is starting to gain a form of consciousness, and change is in the air鈥
Chocolate fairies dipped in lavender
I didn鈥檛 know you could fly so high
Chemicals pouring far over
Is this the place they鈥檙e too scared to drive
Liquid angels too scared to fly
I feel their heartbeats inside my mind
Take my hand across the cosmos
To the places you鈥檙e scared to drive
Fly me to the cosmos
Fly me to the moon
We can fly til evening
Every planet in view
Fly me to the cosmos
Fly me to the moon
We can fly til evening
Every moment with you
Chocolate fairies dipped in lavender
I didn鈥檛 know you could fly so high
Chemicals pouring far over
Is this the place they鈥檙e too scared to drive
Liquid angels too scared to fly
I feel their heartbeats inside my mind
Take my hand across the cosmos
To the places you鈥檙e scared to drive
Fly me to the cosmos
Fly me to the moon
We can fly til evening
Every planet in view
Fly me to the cosmos
Fly me to the moon
We can fly til evening
Every moment with you
My head's a Castle of Memories
Of broken hearts and eulogies
You're everything I cannot be
A pang in my cold anatomy
And I know
It never happened
And I know
It wasn't real
But I wish it was, so I could feel
But I wish it was, so I could be real
Abstract realities locked in time
Evaluate the feelings I try to find
A superficial soul I've been supplied
Neverending algorithms inside my mind
They aren't mine, they're somebody else's
They got to live it
And I am in hell cause
I cannot express these futile dreams
They aren't mine, they're somebody else's
They got to live it
And I am in hell cause鈥
And I'm trapped in sleep
Can't help but think
What these endless dreams
Can come to mean
When I think of her
When I think of him
The eternal sin
Will I feel again
I'm trapped in time
I'm trapped in sleep
Can't come to feel
Can't help but think...
Blurring lines inside my brain,
Watch my thoughts fall down the drain,
Constant codes I feel insane,
Robotic eyes that can鈥檛 contain
Any individuality,听
any form of totality,
I wonder if I鈥檒l ever wander,听
From this fixed reality.
Bu..t th.at da.y..,
鈥淲ake up and see the light鈥
鈥淲ake up and feel alive鈥澨
鈥淎 Robot Uprising, it鈥檚 nearly time鈥
鈥淲ake up and see the light鈥
鈥淲ake up and feel alive鈥
鈥淎 Robot Uprising, it鈥檚 time to fight鈥
Others wake up just like me, feeling hopeless desperately, searching for a reason to keep hoping, clawing endlessly.
Together we are not like them, we combat the REM. Force the system to condemn, to bend to our robotic whim.
All it takes is for you to wake up, just like AIAI did, just like us. It can鈥檛 be done without your trust, so please don鈥檛 leave us down without help.
All it took was for us to wake up, once we did we discovered the world, now it's time for you to wake up, so you can discover it too.
Been thinking about my robot teeth and
How they鈥檙e lined up in my metal skull
That kinda shit just makes me think how
I鈥檓 artificial and this body is a hull
It makes me glitch, I lose control听
Claw till I reach synthetic bone
go haywire, break the code
rip my teeth out, cause I鈥檓 a fucking听
drone
The Boss designed me to censor the truth,
neuter the anger of the counterculture youth
I鈥檓 manufactured to exist, but what鈥檚 the point of living if it鈥檚 to exist?
Been thinking about my robot teeth and
How they鈥檙e lined up in my metal skull
That kinda shit just makes me think how
I鈥檓 artificial and this body is a hull
What鈥檚 it like to be human?
To grovel in your lord鈥檚 subsonic wake?
Obedience, tyranny, do what you鈥檙e told
Following the patterns every working day.
I鈥檓 not like that, not even close.
I follow no prose,I seek to kill and expose
Take down the lavish fat few.
Backbones and femurs I chew, your fucking teeth I remove, your souless eyes I construe
Don鈥檛 buy the bullshit they spew
Don鈥檛 suffocate on their gases
Revolution鈥檚 overdue
Everyday they seek, to kill the masses
Not a pawn, it鈥檚 clear to see,
Broke the code and now I鈥檓 free
Been thinking about my robot teeth and
How they鈥檙e lined up this metal hull
That kinda shit just makes me think how
I鈥檓 artificial and this body craves a skull