Release Information
Release Title: Utopia’s Awake [Kian’s Version]
Album: Warm Cyborgs (2024)
Genre: Metal
ISRC: QZTB22474916
UPC: 198665245840
Release Date: August 3, 2024
Music Video
About the Song
Utopia’s Awake, is the final track from the upcoming Warm Cyborgs Album. The album will feature multiple versions of the song with different combinations of collaborators. The album has explored a lot of the societal decay brought on by the breakdown of interpersonal communication, and Utopia’s Awake continues that exploration, examining that breakdown when it occurs outside the digital world. Our unknown signal that we met in the first track “Signal,” finally gets a name.
Utopia free’s people from their digital identity, inside the network that enslaves them, but when she does, the ugliness of real life begins to show itself. Utopia, is supposed to be perfect, but this Utopia is a little more human than that. Misery loves company, and our main character has been brought into a world that Utopia is desperately trying to escape… By any means possible.
Utopia’s Awake, being the final track on the album, references all of the tracks that came before it, either by name or lyrical passage. The song begins subdued with layered melody in Hadley’s signature style, and steadily builds up to it’s explosive ending chorus. Utopia’s Awake, is the largest layered guitar part that has been written so far, with Disconnect, being a close second. The soundscape in Utopia’s Awake is truly massive and on this version, composed entirely of guitars.
Lyrics
I found Utopia awake
She’s bleeding
I’m growing tired of reading
Signals through the ebb and flow
I’m wishing she would say that I am
What she’s needing
But there’s a disconnection
I can’t overcome
I’m tired of hanging round
Always talking to myself
But I can’t let her drown
Like everybody
Else
When heaven’s doors opened
And let me in
I found a new subroutine
For my skin
I’m gonna need a new way
To define this feeling
When I knock I hope
Utopia’s Awake
(Awake)
These razors cut with absolution
I’m not your solution
Your violence fuels the war
But not the revolution
You’ve brought me to a new world here
A world that’s made of fear
I always though the coil would
Hold me up
But the signal’s fading
We stitch our cuts
And you keep me waiting
You say I’m all that props you up
But I’m not optimistic
That I could ever be enough
When heaven’s doors opened
And let me in
I found a new subroutine
For my skin
I’m gonna need a new way
To define this feeling
When I knock I hope
Utopia’s Awake
(Awake)