Loose Change from Computer by Computer

Lights off – you’re in the basement
Loggin’ onto AOL and MSN, Newgrounds - - -
And mom’s in bed and brother’s in bed
and dad’s in the garage / / smoking and drinking,
listening to talk radio and Queen / / and everything is going OK
as the dial tone kicks up / / it sucks you into a life of negation
and paranoia.

And all of a sudden, you’re not so free,
Cruising the internet in 2003.


All my life / / Reagan-era textbooks,
Handicapped by Bush-era crooks,
I killed myself a hundred times online,
In blog posts, in music, in Y2k design

They'll make you disbelieve in everything.
They'll make you disbelieve in life itself.

So what’s the cost?
It’s atomized, it’s aspect.
And what I’ve lost?
Capacity for affect

They’ll make you disbelieve in everything.
They’ll make you disbelieve in life itself.

And when there’s no video / /
No evidence to prove what’s not there / /
Who’s to know what’s not to know / /
Who is to say that anything’s real?
Who is to say that anyone’s free?
When you’re alone, and I’m alone—

Exactly who is to say that anyone’s free?
When you’re alone, and I’m alone / /
On the computer in 2003.

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