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Birdie Lyrics
Take off little winged creature
It's nothing but teens in ravines
And antiques on concrete down here
Are you really as free as all the great songs would have me believe
Well, let me tell you why someday, birdie, you're gonna envy me
Some dream of a world
Written in lines of code
Well, I hope they engineer out politics, romance, and edifice
Two outta three ain't bad
Some envision a state
Governed by laws of business
Merger and acquisition
Instead of violence or nations
Where do I sign up?
Take off little winged creature
It's nothing but falling debris, strollers and babies down here
You may be up in the sky but our paradigms are just as deep and just as wide
What with all our best attempts at transcendence
Something's bound to take
Soon, we'll live in a global culture
Devoid of gender or race
There's just one tiny line
You're either born behind
Or you're free to peak inside
Life as just narrative
Meta-data in aggregate
Where the enigma of humanity's
Wrapped up finally
That as they say is that
Oh, that day can't come soon enough
It'll be so glorious
When they finally figure out what's bugging us
It's nothing but teens in ravines
And antiques on concrete down here
Are you really as free as all the great songs would have me believe
Well, let me tell you why someday, birdie, you're gonna envy me
Written in lines of code
Well, I hope they engineer out politics, romance, and edifice
Two outta three ain't bad
Governed by laws of business
Merger and acquisition
Instead of violence or nations
Where do I sign up?
It's nothing but falling debris, strollers and babies down here
You may be up in the sky but our paradigms are just as deep and just as wide
What with all our best attempts at transcendence
Something's bound to take
Devoid of gender or race
There's just one tiny line
You're either born behind
Or you're free to peak inside
Meta-data in aggregate
Where the enigma of humanity's
Wrapped up finally
That as they say is that
It'll be so glorious
When they finally figure out what's bugging us
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"Some dream of a world written in lines of code" ... "And are you really as free as all the great songs would have me believe? Let me tell you why some day, Birdie, you're gonna envy me" ... silicon valley's dreams of electric sheep? maybe suggests this desire man has had to own all aspects of nature, industrializing it... and eventually build a societal matrix that supersedes nature with Prometheus' fire
... "Some envision a state governed by laws of business; Merger and acquisition..." project for a new american century... scorching earth outside of the grid, assimilating what's left into a u.n.ified dream. [... "you have to be asleep to believe" - George Carlin]
"Life as just narrative, metadata in aggregate... Where the enigma of humanity's wrapped up, finally. That, as they say, is that!"
[What does the search for knowledge do? We want to know everything... we want to know how rocks are made, how trees are growing, how old they are... so we cut down a tree and measure it's rings. then we don't have the tree anymore (what's the purpose of that?) Why can't we just enjoy the tree? why do we want all of this knowledge? what's it for? how does it relate to the human experience? why do we need to know all this stuff? where does it lead to? - author unknown]
"It's nothing but falling debris, strollers, and babies down here" and even if mental health and morale within our current model of living have hit the fan... "And you may be up in the sky but our paradigms are just as deep and just as wide What with all our best attempts at transcendence" ... we assume our insanity vital enough to upload into immortal machine like the Johnny Depp film
...another thought... the first thing I thought when I saw the title, was the meme from Bernie Sanders 2016 election where a song bird landed on Sanders podium, giving him the short lived nickname "Birdy" Sanders... and of how the old guard ensured the failure of his grassroots campaign
@li8htwav5 I have a tendency of proofreading after I post and now I can't find an edit button...
@li8htwav5 I have a tendency of proofreading after I post and now I can't find an edit button...