The Future Has One Eye
Transformers · Shockwave
The story in the song
Seven versions of Shockwave. Six worlds that fear him. One life he chooses to protect. The Future Has One Eye is a Transformers anthem about seven different consciences and the will to change how a world ends.
From G1 and Shockblast to Prime, IDW, Dark of the Moon, Animated and the FunPub Shattered Glass guardian: separate continuities, one shared chorus.
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Lyrics
In six worlds, this eye means terror.
In one... it means you're safe.
Four million years. The towers rust.
Your last command outlasts the dust.
I guard the bridge; I hold the line.
This empty throne was never mine.
One signal splits the endless drone:
Megatron... you are not alone.
They gave me chains. I gave them graves.
Let cowards march in neat parades.
Let Megatron defend his throne;
I'll crack his crown and forge my own.
I drank the dark to feed my rage;
A god woke screaming in my cage.
The future has one eye!
Watch the old horizons bend!
We are the force that changes
How a broken story ends.
Through every fractured timeline,
Our voices multiply.
Shockwave! Shockwave!
The future has one eye!
From ancient code, my dragons rise;
Extinction opens burning eyes.
A weapon thinks. A weapon feels.
It asks me why a creature kneels.
I built its claws. I chose its shell.
Who taught the thing to choose as well?
They took the face that dared to care
And left one yellow warning there.
The senate carved compassion out;
I kept the question, lost the doubt.
Thirteen worlds. One grand design.
All space and time in one straight line.
To feed my home, the stars must fall.
One world survives. I spend them all.
The future has one eye!
Watch the old horizons bend!
We are the force that changes
How a broken story ends.
Through every fractured timeline,
Our voices multiply.
Shockwave! Shockwave!
The future has one eye!
Below your streets, the steel coils turn.
Above your streets, the towers burn.
My Driller wraps around your pride
And breaks the places where you hide.
No grand address. No warning cry.
The skyline kneels as I pass by.
You called me Longarm. Called me friend.
I knew which evidence to bend.
You gave me clearance, gave me keys;
I brought your fortress to its knees.
The fastest runner met the wall.
I made him small. So very small.
Your numbers say one life is small.
That does not make it none at all.
A human heartbeat, faint but clear,
Is all the proof I need to hear.
So let the missile find my frame;
I'll guard that heartbeat all the same.
The eye you fear can guard you, too.
I choose the world that shelters you.
We do not share a conscience.
We do not share a cause.
We share the will to change
The world from what it was.
The future has one eye!
Watch the old horizons bend!
We are the force that changes
How a broken story ends.
Through every fractured timeline,
Our voices multiply.
Shockwave! Shockwave!
The future has one eye!
You have seen the weapon.
You have not seen the plan.
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