Here is my response to Disinfor… (yes, I write songs in my spare time; specialization is for insects). The numbering has to do with measures so I can coordinate the words and the music.
Oh, and as for the cheetah question: Yes. Because we’ll kill off all the living cheetahs and dead ones can’t run.
Dust to Rust
03 Dark as night,
04 so smooth, so right,
05 Thoughts drifting by,
06 of you and I
07 Neural junctions, random functions,
08 Currents in a human sea.
09 Like Hamlet said, baby
10 “To be or not to be”
11 12 13 14 (music)
15 I know you can
16 you feel it too
17 these phases that we
18 have all been through
19 The start of it all, do you recall
20 when your mind began?
21 Like Hamlet said, baby
22 “What a piece of work is a man”
23 24 25 26 (music)
chorus
27 28 Someone please tell me why I feel this way.
29 30 It’s programmed emotion, that’s the logical way.
31 32 Tell me, tell me please – do the androids play?
33 34 Just like you and me; two of them kissed today.
35 So, when I get older
36 (and fade away like a soldier),
37 having transferred my soul
38 to metal grey and cold
39 where am I then? Am I
40 Am I dead or alive?
41 Like Hamlet said, baby
42 “All that lives must die”
43 44 45 46 (music)
47 My electric clone
48 might fool even me
49 but what feeds a soul…
50 blood? or electricity?
51 currents flowi’, where it goi’?
52 our unique identity
53 Like Hamlet said, baby
54 “(Passing) through nature to eternity”
55 56 57 58 (music)
chorus
59 60 With mechanical devotion, who do androids pray to?
61 62 Here’s another question: what do androids pray for?
63 64 With mechanical devotion, do they pray all hours?
65 66 God rewards his most pious faithful followers
67 We’re really not so different;
68 (actually we’re the same).
69 An unplanned silicon challenge
70 to the evolution game
71 Transfer my soul, where do I go?
72 Both human and machine.
73 Like Hamlet said, baby,
74 “To sleep, perchance to dream.”
75 76 77 78 (music)
79 Dust to dust
80 and rust to rust
81 Programmed love
82 and human lust
83 I can see our futures
84 our futures, they are entwined
85 Like Hamlet said, “Thus bad begins…
86 and worse remains behind.”
87 88 89 89 (music)
chorus
90 91 Someone please tell me why I feel this way.
92 93 It’s programmed emotion, that’s the logical way.
94 95 With mechanical devotion, who do androids pray to?
96 97 Here’s another question: what do androids pray for?
98 99 With mechanical devotion, do they pray all hours?
100 101 God rewards his most pious faithful followers…
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