From the recording Science
The album fittingly concludes with Anthem of Machine Learning, a stark, cathedral like meditation on the moment humanity’s creation slips beyond its grasp. Adapted and expanded from R. S. Thomas’s poem Other, the track transforms his quiet warning into a modern parable: a Machine singing its relentless chant of money while men and women are caught in its web. Even when God commands “Enough,” the Machine continues, unmoved, birthing a new “tree of knowledge” that renders the divine silent. Set against a classical, sacred music backdrop, it becomes a liturgy for a world where the mechanistic has eclipsed the holy — a haunting reflection on power, indifference, and the quiet withdrawal of the sacred.
Lyrics
The Machine appeared in the distance
Singing to itself
Of money
Money
Money
Money
Money
Its song was the web they were caught in
Men and women together
God secreted a tear
Enough!
Enough! he commanded
Enough
Enough
Enough
Enough
Enough
Enough
Enough
But the machine
But the machine
Looked at him
And went on singing
Singing
Went on singing
‘A new tree of knowledge is born’
And God went silent
And bowed his head
Bowed his head
And took his leave