I hear the roar of the big machine, two worlds and in between, hot metal and methedrine

I hear Empire down
I hear Empire down

I hear the sons of the city and dispossessed
Get down, get undressed
Get pretty but you and me
We got the kingdom, we got the key
We got the empire, now as then
We don't doubt, we don't take direction
Lucretia, my reflection, dance the ghost with me

Lucretia My Reflection is a song by English rock band the Sisters of Mercy. Released as the third and final single from their second studio album, Floodland, in June 1988, it peaked at number 20 on the UK Singles Chart. Aside from the reference to Lucrezia Borgia, Lucretia was a woman whose rape triggered the collapse of the Roman empire. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucretia_My_Reflection

The Manchester Baby, also called the Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), was the world's first electronic stored-program computer machine. It was built at the University of Manchester by Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn, and Geoff Tootill, and ran its first program on 21 June 1948. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Baby

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Taken on: November 1, 2009

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