Shoutout To The Earthlings

Earthlings, oh, Earthlings
Why the singular rush for the end?
Some stones on ya
Earthlings, oh, Earthlings
Why the tinfoil on your head?
Open your mind, shout out to the Earthlings

Earthlings, oh, Earthlings
Why the appetite for destruction?
You guns ’n’ roses
Earthlings, oh, Earthlings
Your time is short, the clock is ticking
Make up your mind, shout out to the Earthlings

Shout Out To The Earthlings

Earthlings

She wore a badge she wore a tie
She weren’t easy on the eye
She looked just like the manager, I’d like to see the manager please
There must be someone who can answer to me

He held the list his vis was hi
It couldn’t hide the empty in his eyes
I figured he’s the manager, I’d like to see the manager please
There must be someone who can answer for this

So much confusion coming down the line
I can’t be certain which arbitrary rules I should apply
I need a manager, I think I’d like to see the manager

I pledge allegiance I fall in line
And when the lizards tell me jump I say how high
You gotta love a manager, I’d like to see the manager please 
So I can get down on my grateful knees

I take my medicine I stay inside
I never seem to wonder why
I think I’d like to see the manager, I’d like to see the manager please
So I can thank him directly 

So much confusion coming down the line
I can’t be certain which arbitrary rules I should apply
I need a manager, I think I’d like to see the manager

Are you the manager?
I really really really really really need a manager
Something for the hangover
Will you be my manager?

Manager

Wouldn’t it be cool if you could be a better cyborg
Assimilated fully no surprises 
Every digit free to do nothing useful endlessly 
A semi tethered hotspot human permanently 

Further from me, oblivious to me
Further from me, oblivious to me

Through the haze I swear those gazing eyeballs
I can gauge the waves and waves and waves of cyborg 
Coming off of you spilling onto me
Hotspots warming as they swarm around me like little tiny bees

Further from me, oblivious to me
Further from me, oblivious to me

Imagine what you’d think of us if you were a man from another world
Sometimes I feel like a man from another world
Imagine what you’d think of us if you were a man from another world
Sometimes I feel like a man from another world

Further from me, oblivious to me
Further from me, oblivious to me

Imagine what you’d think of us if you were a man from another world
Sometimes I feel like a man from another world
Imagine what you’d think of us if you were a man from another world
Sometimes I feel like a man from another world

Don’t you sometimes feel like a man from another world
And gasp in wonder at it all
Don’t you sometimes ever feel like someone sent from another world
Who wishes that they weren’t

A Man From Another World

Am I the weirdo
Am I the weirdo here
Am I the weirdo
Is it me or is it you though
Am I the weirdo
Why’m I the weirdo here
Am I the weirdo
Is it me or you or who’s the weirdest here though

So I’m the weirdo 
I’m the weirdo here
Guess I’m the weirdo
It’s not you, it would appear
I’m the weirdo
Weirdo of the year
Damn I’m the weirdo
It’s just me oh yes you’ve made it crystal clear

I’m a weirdo
I’m a weirdo

If I’m the weirdo
I’d like to know who says so
Who’s the weirdo
And who says who’s the very weirdest in this freakshow
If there’s a weirdo
Then why can’t it be you though
I think I think so
I think that’s what I’m gonna go with… you’re the weirdo

Now you’re the weirdo
You’re the weirdo here
Oh you’re the weirdo?
Thought you said that it was me though ho ho ho
No, you’re the weirdo
Now you’re the weirdo here
So how’s it feel so
How’s it feel when you’re the weirdest of the weirdos

It sounds like
We’re all weirdos
We’re all weirdos here
We’re the weirdos
Just don’t ask me who’s the weirdest - I don’t know
Aren’t you a weirdo
Ain’t you a weirdo like me
You not a weirdo
And just when I thought we were weirding famously

AMITHEWERIDO?

You say a word I don’t need to hear you out
That’s how you work in binary
I state a single fact you know me inside out
That’s simple binary, dig it
I say anything, you disagree, 
I say nothing you find a way 
To make it binary

Don’t need to think of what to think about the next thing
When you’re programmed in binary
Primary colours on shinery buttons
Polarise with ease, that’s binary 101
All the Earthlings, choose a side, us and them, pick one you like
Tryna get with it, make a statement fly a flag, I say this and you say that
We’re binary digits

All around the world we’re all just bits in pieces, binary digits
All around the world we’re all digital whizzes, cos we know binary

Don’t need to watch no road to drive the discord
No need for gasoline
My footprint dances down the California superhighway
Binarising everything
Counting feels, one by one, all the digits like to run in the digital traffic
Post a banner, wear the hat, get in someone else’s scrap, death by semantics

Slightly uncomfortable at the slightest hint of a non-binary position
You’re something in the middle and you’re greyed out
I need it to be something more visible
I’m trying to pigeon hole ya but nothing’s really fitting with the usual
Life’s already difficult without the likes of you coming along all reasonable

All around the world we’re all just bits adrift in the binary ocean
All around the world zeroes looking for loved 1s, binary motion
All around the world we’re all just bits in pieces, binary digits
All around the world we’re minding all your business when we talk binary

Why so binary
There’s more to you and me

Binary Digits part 1

It can be so worked out, technically, that everybody can be equipped with a little gadget about the size of a pocket watch. And everybody in the world who possesses one of these things has a number. And if you ring it and the number doesn’t answer, your friend’s dead! 

Imagine… because you can’t not answer. 

That would be unethical, that would be inhuman; that would be to advertise yourself as dead. 

You must answer.

Imagine then this situation where we have the huge electronic intercommunication. So that everybody is in touch with everybody else in such a way that it reveals their innermost thoughts, and there is no longer any individuality, no privacy. 

Everything you are, everything you think, is revealed to everyone.

- Alan Watts

Binary Digits part 1

The Men From Another World