Hidden lore in Alexander lyrics? [Potential Spoilers]

[FaerieAura]

I actually have been thinking about the normal boss music for awhile now. I hadn't thought of the parts where the voice turns mechanical as being lines of computer code being input into the system, but it does make a lot of sense.

For me, the song isn't a celebration of the triumph of the Goblins so much as it is a lament. One thing we know about Primals: They temper people. When I listen to the song, I imagine the tension between a faction of the Goblins that didn't want to activate Alexander as a primal, instead finding a different energy source, and those who grew impatient, and decided to forge ahead with the creation of the Primal Alexander.

The opening lines are from a time when everyone agreed on what to do:

Seeking a piece of reason,
Shaping a peaceless season,
Reason to keep believing,
Waking the beast who's sleeping ...

Basically, wanting to turn the fortress into the place of peace and reason it was meant to be after the Sharlayans abandoned it.

In my view, the next lines are an argument between the potential Splinter Faction I mentioned above and the faction that wanted to awaken Alexander as a Primal:

I call this destiny (you're caught in a trance)
Ever march inside, there's got to be no sign of advance (you see?)
This mortal coil we serve is taut like a spring; step back,
Two-step, two-step, two-step-one-two-back!

The world's a fantasy (no more than a test)
Ever feeding off the fantasy, creating this mess (deep down)
Inside this bleak machine with all of the rest,
Break free! To praise, to praise electricity!

Basically, the first set of lines is the argument of the Alexander faction. They wanted to create the Primal because the progress on the fortress without a supernatural power source was too slow. The phrase "this mortal coil we serve is taut like a spring" is referring to the idea that they are literally not going to be able to complete Alexander before they die if they don't do something drastic. The lines in parentheses are the rebuttals given by the group who didn't want to make Alexander a primal (see specifically: " I call this destiny (you're caught in a trance)." The same idea holds for the second set of lines, but in reverse - it's the Splinter faction's argument, with the parentheses being the rebuttals by the Alexander faction. Essentially, they're arguing that this is a fantasy, and all it will lead to is breaking free from the violence of the world to become enthralled to the machine. The Alexander faction is arguing it's nothing more than a test, just like all the other experiments they've done in the past.

Then, the next lines:

Time turning up the volume,
Time turning on as always.
No time-enough tomorrow,
For turning back to where we began!

Trying to set those twisted fragments in one direction ...
Celestial noise detected, but maybe I'm unsuspected?
Standing to give to reason, turning the key for defense ...
Transmissions begun completing, setup to >BREACH and >RESET.

To me, these lines are basically showing the process through which the Alexander faction activated the system, and continued justification for doing so. Again, there's not enough time - we have to do something now. No going back to where we began when the solution is right in front of us! So we're going in, we're going to activate this thing as a primal, and we're going to realize our dream now, regardless of what our fellow goblins think about it.

Then we have a second set of "argument" lines. In this theory, you can actually see the Alexander faction realize they screwed up badly:

Now what's the destiny (alone in a trance?)
No escaping from this waking dream, no hope for advance (you see?)
The mortal coil we serve is naught but a spring; unwind,
Too slow, too quick, too much to believe!

Your world's a fantasy, you failed the test.
Ever forging all-new fallacies, creating a mess (direct)
Into this bleak machine with all of the rest-
D/C! Dying, dying! Electricity-

Basically, the first lines are the Alexander faction realizing they have created a beast that can't be stopped through their impatience, and probably are likely to be tempered. The second set of lines is blaming this faction for creating this "mess". The Alexander faction doesn't even have a rebuttal this time.

The "trippy part" you mentioned also feeds into this theory for me, as it sounds more like a lament as well:

Falling back right into the system, falling back on all the T-rays
When falling back right out of the system means falling back right into disgrace ...
Yes falling back right in with the system, while slipping, falling back to the end
When falling back is better and simple, we're falling back into pieces again!

To me, this is referring to the fact that activating Alexander as a primal has essentially caused them to be stuck. They can't leave, because they created something that can't be stopped. They have no choice but to fall back with the system they created, and that means that they're literally broken (I always heard "Business" as "Pieces".)

This gives the final lines a darker tone. I think it's literally the process of a now self-aware Primal Alexander tempering all of the Goblins.

Silence to beat and rhythm, memory: >WIPE and >READ (>END)
Error, repeat: >DEFEATED. Radicals flowing free (>END)
Energy slowing seeping, suspending all disbelief (>END)
Synergy with our being ... synapses firing, breathing ...

He's wiping the memory of the Goblins. Suspending their disbelief in the system. Slowly making them serve him. They awaken, servants of the system that at least some of them tried to stop from happening in the first place.

Now, my theory hinges heavily on there being some faction that opposes the Illuminati goblins. My thoughts right now are that this may be another group of Goblins, but it could be whatever faction Mide turns out to be a part of, the Idyllshire goblins, pretty much anyone.