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Everything Is Talking Lyrics
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
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
I'll miss:
The waitresses
The cops
The appointments
The shops
The envelopes
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 they ask me?
What if it says my name?
Everything is talking, everything
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
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
The waitresses
The cops
The appointments
The shops
The envelopes
The change
I'll miss the change
They're too street, I don't get it
I won't eat a machine
But what if they ask me?
What if it says my name?
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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.
Nope, I don't get it. I like this song...
But paranoia comes to mind? But I don't know..
Ooooorr.... everything has some memory and is 'talking' to him, like relating...
I don't know...
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.