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The Computer Is Your Friend

from Gigantic Robot Girlfriend by Max Knightley

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VERSE 1
The verdant frontier of the Amazon named for the warrior women who mastered the plains
The forest is falling so rich men can give their cattle a home where no cattle should live
At least the name has a legacy, one of brutality - see, in reality: the warrior triumphs the
feminine dies, it kills its own servants for pissing 'cause that means they're missing the
chance to polish its prize

CHORUS
It's good that we can serve you in a blink, ma'am
We're happy to deliver to your door
It's good to see the workers' power shrink, ma'am
They work for less but give you so much more

It's good if we exploit and we devour
to grow with neither profit nor an end
a data-driven tumor seizing power
It's fine 'cause the computer is your friend

VERSE 2
All-watching no-seeing eyes, can't stop the rage with their lies, can't stop the youth when they rise
Why should they bother? Each nazi's a dollar, each leftist another, so who should take sides?
Just up the views, that's easy to choose
Who cares if the heat's getting high?
If you got the fanciest tomb on the planet then dammit you might as well die

CHORUS
It's good to have us tell you what to buy, ma'am
To cater to your needs, is that a crime?
It's good to bring new thinkers 'fore your eye, ma'am
Who cares if half are fascists half the time?

It's good if we exploit and we devour
to grow with neither profit nor an end
a data-driven tumor seizing power
It's fine 'cause the computer is your friend

Okay, Google:
VERSE 3:
What's the best steel for a guillotine, wood for a gallows, gun for a firing squad
It's time for your judgement on Earth, the sooner that you can surrender to face it from G-d
Try and escape to your digital haven, your mansion, your rocket to Mars
and pray you can hold off the riots 'cause it's far too late to start healing the scars

CHORUS
It's bad to wave a hammer round so wild, ma'am
Calm down and I can offer you a deal
This company is like my second child, ma'am
Except that I might love this one for real

The Luddites, don't you know, were wrong to fight, ma'am
The trek to innovation never stops
And what makes you so certain that you're right, ma'am
when you call this a bubble doomed to

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from Gigantic Robot Girlfriend, released January 31, 2019

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Max Knightley Chicago, Illinois

Trans lesbian who makes punk, electronica, and music for video games. Stay angry, but keep your eyes open to the beauty of the world.

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