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FIREHOUSE 400
FIREHOUSE 400
PRODUCED BY DAVID McKINNIS, 1990CD PRODUCTION COPYRIGHT 2009 AJPREMIX & REMASTER PRODUCED BY AARON JOHNSON & KEITH GOATES, 2026MUSIC COMPOSITIONS COPYRIGHT 2026 McKINNIS MUSIC LEGACY, LLCSOUND RECORDING COPYRIGHT 2026 AJP
DAVID McKINNIS: Vocals, guitarsAARON JOHNSON: KeyboardsKEITH GOATES: BassRON ARDIA: Drums
DAVID McKINNIS: Vocals, guitarsAARON JOHNSON: KeyboardsKEITH GOATES: BassRON ARDIA: Drums
PROGRAM
EAST
THE CITY
THE PRISONER
EXPERIENCE
STATUS REPORT
FIREHOUSE 400
CONFUSION
CONFLICT
COLLAPSE
ON THE EDGE
FIREHOUSE 400 LYRICS
FIREHOUSE 400 LYRICS
PROGRAMInstrumental OvertureMusic by Aaron Johnson
EAST
Morning finds me lonely, my life has passed before me, in a dream so real I thought I'd returned homeThe market had grown larger, the street blade much more deadly, beneath a bleak brown sky, great towers of stone
What's new today will be older still, the mighty East is changing with the wind and you know the time has comeThe end is not very far away when time will bring a darker day as if we are running, but what are we running from?
Drifting 'cross the country over flowing fields of grain, how would it be if we were home again?Glide over the eastern seaboard, the roots of heritage and stand in the wake of the US battery
Will friend or foe greet me there? Will I pass on by through thinning air? Is the subway the last haven for me?The last true friend throughout all time will greet me there, take yours and mine, in the end, all of the east will rejoin with the sea.
You can't go back now, it's not the same, to say the leastWhat was once is now gone, it's another world if you head back east
Soaring high from behind a cloud, a bracelet of moonbeams caress the shroud and the sea in dazzling blue will beSuperior for all time, enduring almighty, perfect, sublime-long after the east is gone, it will be
Music & lyrics by Aaron Johnson
THE CITY
Crystal-domed city of light, flourish by day, freedom by nightLofty are the towers, astounding at sight-wave of life-Highways fly like ribbons of glass, life is sweet but the pace is very fast
Life is in harmony - dwelling high - don't you know we touch the sky - and it's just the time of life!
Go where the knowledge defies your grasp where mechanical madness, a creator's trapCause confusion and conflict which will lead to collapse - programmed life -Escape your fate for the answers you seek, now you know that your life is incomplete
Life is disharmony - live in fear - don't you know the end is clear? - and it's just the time that draws near!
Music by Aaron JohnsonLyrics by Aaron Johnson & David McKinnis
THE PRISONER
I'm in the cellars of the city, I'm here among my kind, I'm here to find he answers to the questions on my mindIt's deep, damp, I feel the heat. There's a glow below and I hit the street - the street
There's life beneath the city, there's a passion world gone wild, there's freedom beneath the city like a prisoner that smilesIt's rush and go, technology on hold, there's a neon glow, it's safe from what I'm told
In a world of glass and steel and illusion of chips and reels, the conclusion becomes quite realOh I am a prisoner and I can't escape the dream, I am a prisoner in a micro-processed scheme
There's a plan beneath the city that I must find in time, I'm taking on a world tonight a million times my sizeIt's cold, hard - as I gaze into the mirror, I see the status of mankind and I'm filled with fear
I'm here beneath the city and there are radicals on the move, there's fear beneath the city and there's not much time to loseIt's gone beyond, it's time to make or break, and it won't be long before I set this city straight - set it straight!
In a world of steel and glass I would reprogram the past to make a freedom that will lastOh I'll not be a prisoner, I will not bow to machines! Oh I won't be a prisoner, I will live a human dream!
Music by Aaron JohnsonLyrics by David McKinnis
EXPERIENCE
I am Contonon, I am alive, I am the City, made to surviveYou ask a question and I will reply, I am Contonon you look surprised!
I am machine, I am synthesized, I seek perfection and I am qualifiedYou look for answers, ask your little mind why I am Contonon, why I am alive
I've set a trap, one you'll never see, I make you conditioned, I'll make societyShould you escape and go running free, remember you're human and I am the City!
I am a being. I show you the signs. I am complete and I am online.You are a presence, not of my kind - what an experience to be alive!
I am alive! I am alive! I am alive!
Music by Aaron Johnson & David McKinnisLyrics by David McKinnis
STATUS REPORT
Desensitized and centralized, watch out for drones with thin red eyesMake the din and run again, I can't believe the mess we're inWe scan the map and run the path, we're in it now, we can't go backThere's steel doors and halls galore but we know what we're heading - heading for
For those who came before us and for those who'll come againFor those who will never know our names we'd do it all againWe are the program! Think, breathe, you are the plan -We are the program! Touch, feel, it's where it all began.
Rationalized and computerized, we watch the screen with emotional eyesHistory made, foundations laid and shudder at the price we've paidThrow the switch and catch the bits, a city dies, imagine it!Restore the code, a running mode and still we seem to fit within the mold
For those who live without us and for those who live withinFor those of you we've grown to love we would do it all againWe are the program! Think, breathe, you are the plan -We are the program! Touch, feel, it's where it all began
Music & lyrics by David McKinnis
FIREHOUSE 400
I am on the run, I am under the gun, I've got terminators out to find meI've looked into the past and the die has been cast, so I can't let anyone stop me
It's man against man, it's man against nature, it's man against himself, are you getting the picture?It's Firehouse - Firehouse - Firehouse - Firehouse 400
My fears are real, our hands are caught in the till, I know paradise can never be madeI must live in my time and I have made up my mind that freedom has its own price to pay
It's man against machine, it's machine against man, it's never giving in to the struggle at handIt's Firehouse - Firehouse - Firehouse - Firehouse 400
Music & lyrics by David McKinnis
CONFUSION
I'm lost, I'm found, I'm spinning - spinning 'round, I'm not complete, turmoil in the heatI need to find a place, somewhere quiet, somewhere safeWith a world at arms from pole to pole, it's confusion, it's out of control
I fear we sleep, hiding under the sheets. We live, live a life, blinded by the lightOh I believe a change is coming soon, there'll be no fashion, there'll be no foodA world in flames, out of control, confusion takes its toll
Today the word got a name, the word is confusionToday the world has been made a world of confusion
Wheels within wheels, my mind begins to reel, I'm caught, I'm bound to watch society run agroundA fuse is ready to blow, should I hold it or let it go?The time is upon us and we have a voice, chains of confusion and ours is the choice.
Today a choice has been made, that choice is confusionToday the voice has been named, that voice of confusion
Music by David McKinnis & Aaron JohnsonLyrics by David McKinnis
CONFLICT
I see the fate of mankind sprawled across the landI see tradition on the line, decisions in my handsI ask a question then I wait for an answer that never comesShould I choose to be a saint that heralds Armageddon?
I feel a dark cloud overhead, no silver lining can be seenWhen everything is said and done, am I a man or machine?I hear riots in the streets, emotion spent with fearPassion swelling in the heat as I wipe away the tears
I've given everything I have to reach the final goalThe system's going mad and madness takes its toll-
And I'm waiting, waiting for the axe to fallAnd I'm waiting for a future that I can't forestallAnd they're probably gonna take us all
Music by David McKinnis & Aaron JohnsonLyrics by David McKinnis
COLLAPSE
The wheels screamed to a halt, the lights went suddenly outSociety began to crumble, I think we're in the final boutI see the world torn and tattered, I feel the mind go blank in fearFlying headlong into limbo as we stare into the mirror
We've passed the zero hour and we're thrust into the fireI spark a panic all around me as I light the funeral pyreThere's nothing left to count on, the machines have all run downI've punched the eject button and the program came unwound
Snow-filled CRTs, no electric companies, no pleasure facilitiesAnd it's all for the cost of freedomThe masses start to squeeze, the mind begins to freeze, there are no more machinesAnd it's all for the cost of freedom
Technology was harnessed, but the system ran quite wildWe grew and we multiplied, but we were dog-eared and filedWe've given man his independence and we've paid the price in fullWe've lost our life in utopia, we're giving up the moon
Snow-filled CRTs, no electric companies, no pleasure facilitiesAnd it's all for the cost of freedomThe masses start to squeeze, the mind begins to freeze, there are no more machinesAnd it's all for the cost of freedom
Look beyond every corner, look behind your backTo plan now for your future, look into the pastDon't be fooled with open eyes, see through everything disguisedMachines are just your merchandise, they are not friends, they are not wise,They won't understand man's enterprise
Snow-filled CRTs, no electric companies, no pleasure facilitiesAnd it's all for the cost of freedomThe masses start to squeeze, the mind begins to freeze, there are no more machinesAnd it's all for the cost of freedom
Music & lyrics by David McKinnis
ON THE EDGE
You my friends are prisoners, believing to be freeMake a choice, be yourself or forever serve machinesYou can live in a gilded cage, cataloged in numbered rowsWhere sinister electric eyes watch you come and watch you go
Life or death living on the ledge, the risk is great running on the edge
I'm a virus in the body, in a war that may not endI'm facing obstacles, breaking all the rulesI'm cracking codes, second-guessing, no program to follow throughI must keep moving or I am bound to lose
Life or death balanced on the ledge, there's no middle ground on the razor's edge
We must go back, do it all again. We must return to the sea again.
They've sent the terminators from Firehouse 400To silence me for the social order's sakeNow I'm a fugitive on the run in a barren maze of dreamsWhere nothing is electric and all is what it seems
Life or death living on the ledge - the risk is great running on the edge
Music by Aaron JohnsonLyrics by David McKinnis & Aaron Johnson
EAST
Morning finds me lonely, my life has passed before me, in a dream so real I thought I'd returned homeThe market had grown larger, the street blade much more deadly, beneath a bleak brown sky, great towers of stone
What's new today will be older still, the mighty East is changing with the wind and you know the time has comeThe end is not very far away when time will bring a darker day as if we are running, but what are we running from?
Drifting 'cross the country over flowing fields of grain, how would it be if we were home again?Glide over the eastern seaboard, the roots of heritage and stand in the wake of the US battery
Will friend or foe greet me there? Will I pass on by through thinning air? Is the subway the last haven for me?The last true friend throughout all time will greet me there, take yours and mine, in the end, all of the east will rejoin with the sea.
You can't go back now, it's not the same, to say the leastWhat was once is now gone, it's another world if you head back east
Soaring high from behind a cloud, a bracelet of moonbeams caress the shroud and the sea in dazzling blue will beSuperior for all time, enduring almighty, perfect, sublime-long after the east is gone, it will be
Music & lyrics by Aaron Johnson
THE CITY
Crystal-domed city of light, flourish by day, freedom by nightLofty are the towers, astounding at sight-wave of life-Highways fly like ribbons of glass, life is sweet but the pace is very fast
Life is in harmony - dwelling high - don't you know we touch the sky - and it's just the time of life!
Go where the knowledge defies your grasp where mechanical madness, a creator's trapCause confusion and conflict which will lead to collapse - programmed life -Escape your fate for the answers you seek, now you know that your life is incomplete
Life is disharmony - live in fear - don't you know the end is clear? - and it's just the time that draws near!
Music by Aaron JohnsonLyrics by Aaron Johnson & David McKinnis
THE PRISONER
I'm in the cellars of the city, I'm here among my kind, I'm here to find he answers to the questions on my mindIt's deep, damp, I feel the heat. There's a glow below and I hit the street - the street
There's life beneath the city, there's a passion world gone wild, there's freedom beneath the city like a prisoner that smilesIt's rush and go, technology on hold, there's a neon glow, it's safe from what I'm told
In a world of glass and steel and illusion of chips and reels, the conclusion becomes quite realOh I am a prisoner and I can't escape the dream, I am a prisoner in a micro-processed scheme
There's a plan beneath the city that I must find in time, I'm taking on a world tonight a million times my sizeIt's cold, hard - as I gaze into the mirror, I see the status of mankind and I'm filled with fear
I'm here beneath the city and there are radicals on the move, there's fear beneath the city and there's not much time to loseIt's gone beyond, it's time to make or break, and it won't be long before I set this city straight - set it straight!
In a world of steel and glass I would reprogram the past to make a freedom that will lastOh I'll not be a prisoner, I will not bow to machines! Oh I won't be a prisoner, I will live a human dream!
Music by Aaron JohnsonLyrics by David McKinnis
EXPERIENCE
I am Contonon, I am alive, I am the City, made to surviveYou ask a question and I will reply, I am Contonon you look surprised!
I am machine, I am synthesized, I seek perfection and I am qualifiedYou look for answers, ask your little mind why I am Contonon, why I am alive
I've set a trap, one you'll never see, I make you conditioned, I'll make societyShould you escape and go running free, remember you're human and I am the City!
I am a being. I show you the signs. I am complete and I am online.You are a presence, not of my kind - what an experience to be alive!
I am alive! I am alive! I am alive!
Music by Aaron Johnson & David McKinnisLyrics by David McKinnis
STATUS REPORT
Desensitized and centralized, watch out for drones with thin red eyesMake the din and run again, I can't believe the mess we're inWe scan the map and run the path, we're in it now, we can't go backThere's steel doors and halls galore but we know what we're heading - heading for
For those who came before us and for those who'll come againFor those who will never know our names we'd do it all againWe are the program! Think, breathe, you are the plan -We are the program! Touch, feel, it's where it all began.
Rationalized and computerized, we watch the screen with emotional eyesHistory made, foundations laid and shudder at the price we've paidThrow the switch and catch the bits, a city dies, imagine it!Restore the code, a running mode and still we seem to fit within the mold
For those who live without us and for those who live withinFor those of you we've grown to love we would do it all againWe are the program! Think, breathe, you are the plan -We are the program! Touch, feel, it's where it all began
Music & lyrics by David McKinnis
FIREHOUSE 400
I am on the run, I am under the gun, I've got terminators out to find meI've looked into the past and the die has been cast, so I can't let anyone stop me
It's man against man, it's man against nature, it's man against himself, are you getting the picture?It's Firehouse - Firehouse - Firehouse - Firehouse 400
My fears are real, our hands are caught in the till, I know paradise can never be madeI must live in my time and I have made up my mind that freedom has its own price to pay
It's man against machine, it's machine against man, it's never giving in to the struggle at handIt's Firehouse - Firehouse - Firehouse - Firehouse 400
Music & lyrics by David McKinnis
CONFUSION
I'm lost, I'm found, I'm spinning - spinning 'round, I'm not complete, turmoil in the heatI need to find a place, somewhere quiet, somewhere safeWith a world at arms from pole to pole, it's confusion, it's out of control
I fear we sleep, hiding under the sheets. We live, live a life, blinded by the lightOh I believe a change is coming soon, there'll be no fashion, there'll be no foodA world in flames, out of control, confusion takes its toll
Today the word got a name, the word is confusionToday the world has been made a world of confusion
Wheels within wheels, my mind begins to reel, I'm caught, I'm bound to watch society run agroundA fuse is ready to blow, should I hold it or let it go?The time is upon us and we have a voice, chains of confusion and ours is the choice.
Today a choice has been made, that choice is confusionToday the voice has been named, that voice of confusion
Music by David McKinnis & Aaron JohnsonLyrics by David McKinnis
CONFLICT
I see the fate of mankind sprawled across the landI see tradition on the line, decisions in my handsI ask a question then I wait for an answer that never comesShould I choose to be a saint that heralds Armageddon?
I feel a dark cloud overhead, no silver lining can be seenWhen everything is said and done, am I a man or machine?I hear riots in the streets, emotion spent with fearPassion swelling in the heat as I wipe away the tears
I've given everything I have to reach the final goalThe system's going mad and madness takes its toll-
And I'm waiting, waiting for the axe to fallAnd I'm waiting for a future that I can't forestallAnd they're probably gonna take us all
Music by David McKinnis & Aaron JohnsonLyrics by David McKinnis
COLLAPSE
The wheels screamed to a halt, the lights went suddenly outSociety began to crumble, I think we're in the final boutI see the world torn and tattered, I feel the mind go blank in fearFlying headlong into limbo as we stare into the mirror
We've passed the zero hour and we're thrust into the fireI spark a panic all around me as I light the funeral pyreThere's nothing left to count on, the machines have all run downI've punched the eject button and the program came unwound
Snow-filled CRTs, no electric companies, no pleasure facilitiesAnd it's all for the cost of freedomThe masses start to squeeze, the mind begins to freeze, there are no more machinesAnd it's all for the cost of freedom
Technology was harnessed, but the system ran quite wildWe grew and we multiplied, but we were dog-eared and filedWe've given man his independence and we've paid the price in fullWe've lost our life in utopia, we're giving up the moon
Snow-filled CRTs, no electric companies, no pleasure facilitiesAnd it's all for the cost of freedomThe masses start to squeeze, the mind begins to freeze, there are no more machinesAnd it's all for the cost of freedom
Look beyond every corner, look behind your backTo plan now for your future, look into the pastDon't be fooled with open eyes, see through everything disguisedMachines are just your merchandise, they are not friends, they are not wise,They won't understand man's enterprise
Snow-filled CRTs, no electric companies, no pleasure facilitiesAnd it's all for the cost of freedomThe masses start to squeeze, the mind begins to freeze, there are no more machinesAnd it's all for the cost of freedom
Music & lyrics by David McKinnis
ON THE EDGE
You my friends are prisoners, believing to be freeMake a choice, be yourself or forever serve machinesYou can live in a gilded cage, cataloged in numbered rowsWhere sinister electric eyes watch you come and watch you go
Life or death living on the ledge, the risk is great running on the edge
I'm a virus in the body, in a war that may not endI'm facing obstacles, breaking all the rulesI'm cracking codes, second-guessing, no program to follow throughI must keep moving or I am bound to lose
Life or death balanced on the ledge, there's no middle ground on the razor's edge
We must go back, do it all again. We must return to the sea again.
They've sent the terminators from Firehouse 400To silence me for the social order's sakeNow I'm a fugitive on the run in a barren maze of dreamsWhere nothing is electric and all is what it seems
Life or death living on the ledge - the risk is great running on the edge
Music by Aaron JohnsonLyrics by David McKinnis & Aaron Johnson
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