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