Hope Rides Alone Songtext
von The Protomen

No one was left who could remember how it had happened
How the world had fallen under darkness
At least no one who would do anything
No one who would oppose the robots
No one who would challenge their power
Or so Dr. Wily believed...


Twenty floors above the dark streets of the city
Dr. Light lived in a run-down tenement
An eccentric and brilliant man
Light was a loner, a thinker, a man of ideas
Ideas forbidden in Wily′s society
The society for which he worked
The society in which he lived
The society that he would set free
And so Light worked, far into the night
When the watchful eyes of Wily's robots weren′t upon him
He'd set his skillful hands to the task
Of creating a device to bring about a change,
To create a machine to bring freedom
To create a man to save the world
Twelve years Light worked

And on a cold night in the year 200X, Protoman was born
A perfect man, an unbeatable machine
Hell-bent on destroying every evil standing between man and freedom
Built for one purpose
To destroy Wily's army of evil
Robots. Ready, willing, prepared to fight

Cutman

Gutsman
Elecman
Bombman
Fireman

Iceman
Proto
Attack

And as the smoke cleared
Wily rose above the countless robots remaining
Protoman was wounded, low on energy,

Struggling to remain standing as Wily ordered the final attack
The death of Protoman


The crowd had gathered there to watch him fall
To watch their hopes destroyed
They watched them beat him
They watched them break him
They watched his last defense deployed
There was not a man among them who would let himself be heard
But from the crowd
From their collective fear, arose these broken words:
We are the dead
We are the dead

What have we done? (We are the dead)
What will we do? (We are the dead)
Where will we turn? (We are the dead)
Is there nothing we can do? (We are the dead)
How did it come to this? (We are the dead)
How did we go so wrong? (We are the dead)
We are the dead (We are the dead)