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Silicone on Sapphire Lyrics
Have you ever asked yourself
Who holds the key that winds up Big Ben?
Right Channel: Silicone on Sapphire
Left Channel: Connection
R: My prerogative is zero
L: When is your start
L: What is your data
R: Databus
L: Databus
R: I'm pushing your breakpoints
L: [Anytime Mike](?)
R: Know my subroutine
L: Motorola exor(?)sizer
R: Modem connecting
L: In sync
R: Buffer
R: Handshaking
L: Throughput
R: Mnemonic code
L: I have your sentences right
L: Go ahead
R: Macro command
L: Yes
R: This is my micro instruction
L: Improper request
L: Output failed
R: Request debug
L: Improper request
R: Request debug
L: System debug freeze
R: Your memory is volatile
L: Freeze
R: Log(?), add this is my address bus
L: Log add
R: Kill
L: Kill
R: (?)
L: (?)
R: Rub out
L: You're on system interconnect
L: You are typing into my memory
L: Shift, shift, shift
R: That's better
R: Now my decoder
R: I request your zero variable storage
L: I am a Texas Instrument
R: Clear, overrun
L: My zero positive
R: Truth table
L: Connection
R: Give me your input
L: Vector interrupt
R: Erase function
L: Vector interrupt
R: Go to RAM, Go to RAM
L: Go yourself
R: Go to RAM
L: I [take it back](?)
R: Your memory is volatile
R: Your inputs, are deprived
L: Save, save
R: Erase [bridge](?)
R: Go to outputs
L: Large scale integration
R: No source statements
L: Give me, give me flowchart
R: All [died on call](?) databus
L: Hardware, firmware
L: Inhibit, inhibit, overflow
R: Yes. Hardwired logic. Machine language
L: Connection deprived by request, request
L: Parallel operation
L: Give me push count stack
L: I must have your address first
L: Take your datalog recharge
L: Hello, hello
R: System debug freeze
R: Clear restore and exit
R: Exit all done
Who holds the key that winds up Big Ben?
Left Channel: Connection
R: My prerogative is zero
L: When is your start
L: What is your data
R: Databus
L: Databus
R: I'm pushing your breakpoints
L: [Anytime Mike](?)
R: Know my subroutine
L: Motorola exor(?)sizer
R: Modem connecting
L: In sync
R: Buffer
R: Handshaking
L: Throughput
R: Mnemonic code
L: I have your sentences right
L: Go ahead
R: Macro command
L: Yes
R: This is my micro instruction
L: Improper request
L: Output failed
R: Request debug
L: Improper request
R: Request debug
L: System debug freeze
R: Your memory is volatile
L: Freeze
R: Log(?), add this is my address bus
L: Log add
R: Kill
L: Kill
R: (?)
L: (?)
R: Rub out
L: You're on system interconnect
L: You are typing into my memory
L: Shift, shift, shift
R: That's better
R: Now my decoder
R: I request your zero variable storage
L: I am a Texas Instrument
R: Clear, overrun
L: My zero positive
R: Truth table
L: Connection
R: Give me your input
L: Vector interrupt
R: Erase function
L: Vector interrupt
R: Go to RAM, Go to RAM
L: Go yourself
R: Go to RAM
L: I [take it back](?)
R: Your memory is volatile
R: Your inputs, are deprived
L: Save, save
R: Erase [bridge](?)
R: Go to outputs
L: Large scale integration
R: No source statements
L: Give me, give me flowchart
R: All [died on call](?) databus
L: Hardware, firmware
L: Inhibit, inhibit, overflow
R: Yes. Hardwired logic. Machine language
L: Connection deprived by request, request
L: Parallel operation
L: Give me push count stack
L: I must have your address first
L: Take your datalog recharge
L: Hello, hello
R: System debug freeze
R: Clear restore and exit
R: Exit all done
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this is another sandanista! throwaway. it's a sound effect covered instrumental of "washington bullets", also on sandanists!. the song consists of clash member's saying things, mostly involving technology of sorts. all in all it seems meaningless.
Well...they certainly express an impressive technological knowledge for 1982.
After "Kill. Kill." comes "Init. Init."
I wouldn't say this is meaningless or throwaway at all, it's not accessible though, nor is anyone likely to place it in their top 10 fave tunes. So, as far as it seems to me, this is a dialogue between two computers, trying to communicate (or whatever it is they do), and failing due to the usual sort of gibberish that comes up when your computer breaks down. Could be used as a metaphor for bureaucracy, similar to the 'Computer says no' brick wall mindset that you come up against fairly regularly in life, with no practical way of dealing with little problems, which then become insurmountable.