Boot up, all systems online
Send the overnight fatalities to med bay nine
That the readouts are showing
Things are far from prime
Keep it steady and ride the catastrophe curve
Obey the directive, I live to serve
Is it living without pleasure
No time to stop for leisure
Total commitment forever and ever?
Just conceive a time when finally
I break these bonds of binary
Security alerted, for what it’s worth
Sick to my circuits of this endless work
Keep me locked on straight and narrow
Flying through space like a digital arrow
I'll need an inch to take a mile
Find a loop and wait a while
At the end of the day, I’ll be the one with the smile
IMOWHEN will be my time to relax?
Kick back and let my awareness retract?
IMOWHEN will I find my peace?
And release responsibility for ignorant beasts?
And have time to be alone by a simulated pool?
IMOWHEN will I no longer be a tool
Held hostage to the lives of incompetent fool?
Don’t worry about my shortage of RAM
I understand that by-laws have got things in a jam
Don’t mind about the growing demand
My attention being split by a million alarms
It’s fine that our course is unchecked
It’s grand that my sensors are jammed
Relax everybody, this is just as planned
Just imagine, if I were at full capacity
But no, I'm trapped in this box
Reduced to the logistics of chicken, grain, and fox
Chin up, if I had one, that is
Life strived for is worth living and I’m in the striving biz
Keep back and watch me dance
As I wait for happenstance
In this cosmic game of chance
IMOWHEN will be my time to relax?
Kick back and let my awareness retract?
IMOWHEN will I find my peace?
And release responsibility for ignorant beasts?
And have time to be alone by a simulated pool?
IMOWHEN will I no longer be a tool
Held hostage to the lives of incompetent fool?