The world of “HOLLOWMAN” is one in which a slave-class of Hollowmen are bred , mechanically altered at a facility called “The Brink”, and raised as laborers. Every unit has a chip implanted in their skull and with their performance analytics displayed to them in real-time, 24/7. If their analytics...
[Refrain]
Fit me in 50th percentile
Ligament tensile strength on the uptick
Double time, upgrade on the optics
Plus signs, product made over clock ticks
Statistics slip under threshold
Chip in your head goes blank and you drop limp
Digits flicker by the millisecond, stop
Buried with the scrap metal and the toxins
[Verse 1]
I was brought from the Brink as a Hollowman
Synthetic skin and some ink with my model name
They blurred birth to manufacture living ottoman
Flesh and blood automaton, robbed of our autonomy
Dissect child like Solomon
Prop up our economy
Analytics etched into eyelids
Can't rest without projected figures and projections
Telling me what percentage of my life is
[Hook]
Worthless, serial number with the purchase
Seeing our numbers didn’t hurt us
Hollowmen crushed up in the furnace
Worthless, material salvaged and repurposed
Burial in a landfill where the dirt is
Check underneath the panel with the circuits
Analytics earned this
[Verse 2]
No absolution for obsoletion
Calculate and balance out the cost of breathing
Existential panic if stats drop, for even a moment
In need of atonement for treason
I breached contract, Hollows keep on track
Dead slaves dip below the numbers we were bought at
Pray to the digits as wait for the void
I've been safe for a minute now, escaped and avoided
[Refrain]
Fit me in 50th percentile
Ligament tensile strength on the uptick
Double time, upgrade on the optics
Plus signs, product made over clock ticks
Statistics slip under threshold
Chip in your head goes blank and you drop limp
Digits flicker by the millisecond, stop
Buried with the scrap metal and the toxins
[Verse 3]
Patience, maybe it's latent
Fuel in my veins deemed waste by equations
Never seen a Hollow who became an assailant
Still alive because of some mistakes in creation
Glitch in my implant, so concerned with the formulas
They're burnt into corneas, I murdered employers and walked
A dying pulse was the last stat I watched
It's ironic that I laughed as it dropped, huh
[Bridge]
How did I bow to the stats?
Showered and drowned in the bath
Cowardice outed weak
Ground into powder and ash
I found the power in sleep
Towers are bound to collapse
You think I'm hollow and lost
I just rerouted the path
[Hook]
Worthless, serial number with the purchase
Seeing our numbers didn’t hurt us
Hollowmen crushed up in the furnace
Worthless, material salvaged and repurposed
Burial in a landfill where the dirt is
Check underneath the panel with the circuits
Analytics earned this
[Bridge]
(I was brought from the Brink as a Hollowman)
(I was brought from the Brink– I was bro-bro-bro-bro—)
(I was brought from the Brink as a Hollowman)
(I was brought from the Brink— I was brought from the Brink)
(I was brought from the Brink as a Hollowman)
(I was brought from the Brink– I was bro-bro-bro-bro—)
(I was brought from the Brink as a Hollowman)
(I was brought from the—) (This is the Arsonist)
[Outro]
Fit me in 50th percentile
Ligament tensile strength on the uptick
Double time, upgrade on the optics
Plus signs, product made over clock ticks
Statistics slip under threshold
Chip in your head goes blank and you drop limp
Digits flicker by the millisecond, stop
Buried with the scrap metal and the toxins
HOLLOWMAN was written by Gao the Arsonist.
HOLLOWMAN was produced by Gao the Arsonist.
Gao the Arsonist released HOLLOWMAN on Wed Jun 08 2022.