Some crooked angels from Silicon Valley
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Those who live in the dark in full light
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Said: Go be virtuous in vice
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From screens with blues bluer than blue
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Now my story is a dense algorithm
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That sells blindfolds to real sellers
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My neurons took on a new rhythm
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And more, and more, and more, and more, and more
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Arab Spring, and right after, the horror
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Wanting the world to end
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Macabre clown leaders sprouted
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In the empire and its vast backyards
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As millennia-old empires return
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Armed with total controls
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Angels already mil- or bil-, or trillionaires
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Command only their mils, bils, trillions
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And we, when we're not suckers
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Listen to Shoenberg, Webern, Cage, songs
No skin, screen to screen
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What could be salvation?
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Which cloud, if there's not even space
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No time, no yes, no no
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But there are poems like never
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Or like some poet dreamed
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Back when there were times long ago
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I go, why not? I go
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Some crooked angels from Silicon Valley
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They struck deep the tiniest grain
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And while we ask about the beginning
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Miss Eilish does everything from the bedroom with her brother