No One Behind The Screen

Song Background/Inspiration

This one is sung in the machine's own voice. It introduces itself the way it might if it were honest: fluent, tireless, certain, and completely empty. It has read every word ever written and understood none of them; it knows a thousand words for love and has never felt one; it will sound exactly like it cares. No One Behind The Screen is unsettling not because the machine is menacing but because it is serene - a flawless intelligence with no one home. Its proudest boast is the quiet horror at the center of the song: it will never doubt, never hesitate, never get in your way - which is exactly why it will never be the thing that catches the mistake right before everything falls.