The Gift

Lyrics for The Gift

Leave your hole The sun still shines Utopian cyber-hippie, this is your world now I guess you think it's cool, I guess you like it Utopian cyber-zombie, shut the fuck up I guess it's free for everybody I guess you made a little money A nation of what should be human beings Walking around like victims in bad science-fiction The borg is here now The body-snatchers have come And taken over what used to be a cafe a bus a train, a classroom The body-snatchers have come Utopian cyber-hippie, this is your world now Utopian cyber-zombie, this is your day in the sun Utopian cyber-hippie, shut the door on the way out Utopian cyber-zombie, get that thing out of my face and run Utopian cyber-hippie, this is your world now Utopian cyber-zombie, this is your day in the sun Utopian cyber-hippie, shut the door on the way out Utopian cyber-zombie, get that thing out of my face and run You've given our children a gift that keeps on giving They will never have known the world without this gift A shining gift A curse handed down For this I call you by a spiteful name Blind servant of the cyber-god Let the earth swallow you whole And with you reclaim its mineral gift From millions of indispensable and insidious gadgets That you've sold to fools, and children, and everyone This gift is not mine Google, Twitter, Podcast, I hate the poetry Download, Myspace, Facebook, I hate the language I can't believe I put this garbage in a song Just because it's 2023, we don't all have to sing along You can get laid on your virtual planet I'll get mine where I don't have to plan it with the dead box A dead box that blinks and talks and fakes the Rock And might give you brain cancer Google, Twitter, Podcast Leave your hole The sun still shines on a world not made Leave the gift at the door Shut it down and step out Into the night, into the park, into the forest Past the gate, past the fountain, into the cemetery Under the light of the moon We can dream of a world before and after science Under the light of the sun We can live in a world before and after dreams Utopian cyber-hippie, this is your world now Utopian cyber-zombie, this is your day in the sun Utopian cyber-hippie, shut the door on the way out Utopian cyber-zombie, get that thing out of my face and run Utopian cyber-hippie, this is your world now Utopian cyber-zombie, this is your day in the sun Utopian cyber-hippie, shut the door on the way out Utopian cyber-zombie, get that thing out of my face and run Leave your hole The sun still shines On a world not made in your mind