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What Does a Scanner See? Lyrics
I'm supposed to act like they aren't here
Assuming there's a "they" at all
It may just be my imagination
Whatever it is that's watching
It's not human
Unlike little dark-eyed Donna
It doesn't ever blink
What does a scanner see?
Into the head?
Down into the heart?
Does it see into me, into us?
Clearly or darkly?
I hope it sees clearly, because I can't any longer see into myself
I see only work
I hope for everyone's sake the scanners do better
'Cause if the scanner see only darkly the way I do
Then I'm cursed
And cursed again
And will only wind up dead this way
Knowing very little
And getting that little fragment
Wrong too
Assuming there's a "they" at all
It may just be my imagination
Whatever it is that's watching
It's not human
Unlike little dark-eyed Donna
It doesn't ever blink
What does a scanner see?
Into the head?
Down into the heart?
Does it see into me, into us?
Clearly or darkly?
I hope it sees clearly, because I can't any longer see into myself
I see only work
I hope for everyone's sake the scanners do better
'Cause if the scanner see only darkly the way I do
Then I'm cursed
And cursed again
And will only wind up dead this way
Knowing very little
And getting that little fragment
Wrong too
Song Info
Submitted by
azkm On Nov 26, 2008
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The sample is from the film "A Scanner Darkly", based on the novel of the same name by Philip K. Dick.