Our new set can talk and think
I'm upset it was so hard to train
Our old set was quite a bore
We yelled at it
But it didn't hear
My new friends have messages
They reach me wherever I am now

Everything is talking everything
Everything is talking everything
Everything is talking everything
Everything is talking everything

Nameless friends all know my name
They know me
They help me
Our new set is a good set
It's a big set
A really big set

Everything is talking everything
Everything is talking everything
Everything is talking everything
Everything is talking everything

I'll miss the way she says
I'll miss the coughs
I'll miss the appointments
I'll miss the shows
I'll miss the eyes low
I'll miss the change
I'll miss the change

My bank is hip hop jazz
They're too street
I don't get it
I won't eat a machine
But what if it asks me
What if it says my name

Everything is talking everything
Everything is talking everything
Everything is talking everything
Everything is talking everything


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Everything Is Talking Lyrics as written by John Roderick

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    General Comment

    This could be about the Internet and the proliferation of technology in general. The "set" being a reference to a "TV set" which is how someone may sarcastically refer to a monitor and a desktop computer.

    "Everything is talking" could refer to how we are now surrounded by devices that talk to you all the time, be they your car asking you for voice commands, a cell phone, a TV, a radio, or a computer. "My new friends have messages \ they reach me wherever i am."

    Notice how all of the stuff mentioned under "i'll miss" are things replaced or made obsolete by technology aside from the first two, arguably.

    evizaeron January 29, 2011   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    Nope, I don't get it. I like this song...

    But paranoia comes to mind? But I don't know..

    srxcefon March 24, 2007   Link
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    General Comment

    Ooooorr.... everything has some memory and is 'talking' to him, like relating...

    I don't know...

    srxcefon March 24, 2007   Link
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    General Comment

    In my opinion its about living your life with out paying attention and not taking anything into consideration. so he's got friends that know his name but he doesnt know theirs. = sounds like not paying attention to me.

    Teh mod3st mous3on August 01, 2008   Link

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