"AVALANCHE (performed by Osirah, then Ruby): Having absconded with Ruby and aware 'The X + I' are in deadly pursuit, the trio find themselves by morning in a pastoral field of sunflowers; where Nighthawk prepares a clandestine backdrop for what means to be a worldwide message of subversion and condemnation; all from the virtual 'Zero' by way of Ruby. In waiting, Osirah laments their present danger, which brings forth the robot's best form of empathy." (ATUM story notes)

Don't get me wrong
This a'int so hard
Youth arms my shield
As wish does charge
Don't get me wrong

I aim desires
I aim these qualms
As if they'd journey where you are
We'll set 'em on fire
We'll set 'em on trial, for laughs
To arc right back where you are
Oh, dopplegang
Gee, love kids strange
As odd as achin' on
This cybernaut in chains

It looks like a dream
But feels like a fright
To lay on his beams
To sail on the night
We'll prey on his authors
And stamp out their kind, but slowly

Don't get me wrong
This dirge subsides
As fate augers us
By hint, and by slight

I aim these zeroes
I aim their mark
To fear these angels on the march
We'll set 'em on fire
We'll set 'em on trial, for lark
To reach right back where you are

But you don't feel
Where real meets real
Where souls stand rich enough
To challenge what's revealed

It looks like a dream
But feels like a fright
To lay on his beams
And sail on the night
We'll beg on assassins
To rub out their kind, but slowly

Don't get me wrong

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Billy Corgan

The voice at the beginning is Corgan's daughter, Philomena Clementine Corgan, saying "I hope someday we'll find out what happiness means" on a fading loop, followed by a computerized voice repeating the line.