Fear Factory - Linchpin

Track 5 from Digimortal, Fear Factory's fourth studio album, released on April 24, 2001 by Roadrunner Records. It is considered a concept album and a sequel to Obsolete, their previous album (which was itself a continuation to Demanufacture) and the final part of a trilogy.

The concept is about how man and machine have merged into one. The surviving humans and the machines realize they have to depend on each other if they are going to continue on. The title of the album is actually short for "Digital Mortality".

This was the band's last album before officially breaking up in March, 2002. Frontman Burton C. Bell had decided to quit after putting out this album, but the band reformed later in the same year to put out their next album Archetype in 2004. Digimortal was the last to feature founding guitarist/songwriter Dino Cazares for 7 years until he came back.

Band members
Burton C. Bell − vocals
Dino Cazares − guitar
Christian Olde Wolbers − bass
Raymond Herrera − drums

LYRICS

can't take me apart!

see the light, a new day has arrived for us
genesis of our evolution
a linchpin holds within a means to an end
can't you see that we are one?

can't take me apart!
no you can't!

we see no end to the dream

we will never see the end
we will never be the end
all my life i've felt discarded
never feeling a part of it

no you can't!

without me you will fade, you will not remain
we are one, and of the same future machine!
a linchpin holds within a means to an end
can't you see that we are one?

can't take me apart!
no you can't!

we see no end to the dream!

we will never see the end
we will never be the end
all my life i've felt discarded
never feeling a part of it

no you can't take me apart

you can't change me now

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