(this is dedicated to Laurie Anderson)
I’ve seen enough of
Propane and Nomex
Glycerine and sound effects
Accomplished with insects
Sequins and excess
They leave me cold
There’s no meaning anyway
I express my individuality
By looking just the same
I’m walking on your pop screen this time
It’s hotter than a cookie sheet at gas mark nine
It’s the only flat surface I could find
At the time
It didn’t rhyme
It didn’t seem to matter
The cumulative dose is no risk to your health
The damage it does is minor
At these levels
What did you expect?
Everybody’s annoying, making too much noise
Polar ice and polarised mirrorshades
Mirrors, Hades
Boys and girls, gentlemen and ladies
How much is this going to cost me?
Disposal is guaranteed
The deposit is the fee
The data is the message
You might feel emotional
This is my devotional
Am I irrational? I can’t tell
Is it real? We all steal
Real artists thieve
Some other loser’s songs
I’ve lost track of how I feel
I’ve dropped a connection
What’s the deal?
Entering the glide slope
Everyone’s got the next step
Everyone seems to be on the beam
Everyone seems to know what it means
Everyone knows they’ll pair off one day
Everyone knows they’ll find their one and only
We’re all loving some stranger’s song
It’s the only place we all belong
If you don’t know the words then just play along
Play along, kid along, fake it, shake it, make it
Break it
Did you break it?
It was like that when I arrived
The only thing better than being real
Is being real popular
Spare a thought for the bottom of the barrel
Spare a thought for the recessive allele
Spare a thought for the protein loaded
Spare a thought for the unexploded
Spare a thought for the outmoded
Spare any cutter for an old-ex-
Spare any time for a philo-
tele-
techno-
prefix-vangelist
Vandal at the edge of forever
Just jacking off til the Singularity comes
Waiting to blossom
Fire and sequins
Firing sequence
Lost eloquence
Last orders
Last rites
NUL byte
Ctrl-Z
EOF.
Don’t forget to turn off your set.