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Song for Grownups

from Songs for Grownups by Jay Ackley

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Featuring Ryan Lang on Space Sax and Microkorg

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I guess I’m a grownup now it’s time to write songs for grownups
No more novelty hit singles about depressive robots
Cuz what could a human adult have to learn from
Some tin-foil automaton?

How to sit still, how to think fast, how to recall any obscure fact
How to calmly persevere when all you hold dear is falling apart around
I guess I’m a grownup now.

But I don’t want to do just what I’m told
I like to pretend I’m in control
I like to imagine that my soul alone
Can save us in this situation.

Oh shit it’s the apocalypse I guess we should have seen it coming
C’mon quick upload your consciousness it’s come down to that or nothing
I thought it was all supposed to be okay somehow
I guess I’m a robot now.

But oh what a glorious surprise, a new fantastic form of life
Beyond our conception, expanded perception, the divine reflection
Like a burning bird, born from certain doom.

I guess I’m a robot now, it’s time to write songs for robots
An epic ballad in a single tone, a eulogy for meat and bone
I hope things get better soon,
Until then we muddle through.

Now I sit still, now I think fast, now I live behind a frozen mask
You know I swapped my parts out one by one ‘til there was nothing left from when I’d begun
And still I can carry on.

I guess I’m a robot now, it’s time to fulfill my function
My actions are increasingly absurd in the face of all this disjunction
Maybe it still might be okay somehow
I don’t mind, I’m a grownup now.

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from Songs for Grownups, released April 29, 2019

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Jay Ackley Brooklyn, New York

Minnesotan in Brooklyn by way of London; having a sing-song through the dystopia.

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