Song Credits/Lyrics/Details:
 
Title: Elon Musk Is Making Me Sad
Group: The Rentals
Featuring: Matt Sharp, Nick Zinner and The Gentle Assassins Choir
Mixing: Dave Fridmann and Matt Estep
Mastering: Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound
Length: 6 minutes and 55 seconds
 
Publishing: Room 54 Music (BMI) / Rough Trade Publishing
 

Elon Musk Is Making Me Sad
Lyrics by Matt Sharp
 
Let me tell you a tale about a rivalry
Grab an Eagle Number Two and keep the score
There were these two young boys that came from average broken homes
With all the luxuries the middle class affords
 
Oh, Lord...
 
Elon’s making me so sad cause I calculated the math of our birthdates
And I had a head start out of the start gate, 2 years plus 86 days, but that all went to waste
Oh, Elon you’re making me so sad cause the race that I wanted to have was not much of a race
And I tried, Love! And for a moment I thrived, Love! But could not keep my stride up to keep pace
 
But for a second, there’s no question, I had the lead in ninety-five
I mismanaged my advantage; like a rocket ship he blasted by
To incredible heights, incredible heights
 
In nineteen eighty-two, on Christmas day
Santa gave us each a brand-new Commodore
I used mine to make fake I.D.’s and buy beer in junior high
While my foe studied every bit of that 8bit whore
 
Are you keeping score?
 
Cause, Elon’s making me so sad cause I calculated the math of our birthdates
And I had a head start out of the start gate, 2 years plus 86 days, but that all went to waste
Oh, Elon you’re making me so sad cause the race that I wanted to have was not much of a race
And I tried, Love! For a moment, I thrived, Love! But could not keep my stride up to keep pace
 
But for a second, there’s no question, I had the lead in ninety-five
But the small ambitions of a musician, I could not keep my eye on the prize
I watched him fly by, to incredible heights
 
When it’s time to say goodbye, what will they write on my tombstone?
Just that last little line from the Happy Days Video
 
Not so good, Jonze
 
Hey, Elon! (Hey, Elon!) I don’t know what I have become (Hey, Elon!)
I need someone to help change my fate
 
I think you can save me! (Can you save me? I think you can save me!)
Do you think you can save me? Do you have the power to help me escape?
 
Oh, Elon! Let me be the first one, of your new civilization to be saved
Yes! I’ll try, Love! I swear to you I can thrive, Love!
 
This time I’ll keep my stride up and keep pace
Only you can change my Q-score! Make me the first one out of that door
 
First boots out on the Martian Floor to proclaim...
Oh, that Elon! Sent me all the way, Son, a hundred thirty-nine million miles away!
 
Elon! Send me away; send me away! Elon, send me away (Tell me I'm saved!)
Elon! Tell me I’m saved; tell me I’m saved! Elon tell me I’m saved (Send me away!)
 
You have the power to save, you have the power to save me!
You have the power to save, you have the power to save me!
 
And then I will say, I went to Mars and won the race! Yeah, I will say, I took first-place!
Oh, I rode that Old Heart of Gold the whole way and in the end, hey! I won the race!
Oh, oh! Elon! Let me win the race; win the race! Oh, Elon! Let me take first place!
Elon! Tell me I am saved; I am saved! Elon tell me I am saved!
 
You have the power to save; you have the power to save me!
(Elon, tell me I am saved!)
You have the power to save; you have the power to save me!
(Tell me I am saved!)
You have the power to save me! You have the power to save me! (Send me away!)
You have the power to save!

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