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Get the song NOW on Bandcamp: COMING JUNE 16 to major music streaming and download services. Support The Cog is Dead on Patreon at LYRICS: Once I had a job as a musician Every night I’d play upon the stage I’d sing my songs and the folks would sing along And I made a living wage Life was great when suddenly it happened It swept across the planet like a plague And in a flash the life I knew had burned to ash When the robots came to invade Oh, I tried to warn you all when I said, “The cog is dead!” (You didn’t listen to him! And now your future is grim!) Oh, society did fall, and the machines are now in your place instead! I used to have it all, but don’t you know nothing ever lasts Because a monster came along and it took it all so fast (No one ever saw it coming) It took my job, it cloned my voice, it even took my wife! There’s nothing left now – A.I. stole my life! They said that it would a be new assistant It could do jobs in a fraction of the time In can write your code, draft blueprints up for your abode And make a painting so sublime Soon it started writing all my music Then it took all credit for my work And next thing I know, now it’s playing all my shows While I just sit here like I jerk! Oh, what’s humanity without expression through their art? (I don’t get all of the fuss, they’re only mimicking us) Now my wife’s with a machine because she told me that the bot’s just way more smart! I used to have it all, but don’t you know nothing ever lasts Because a monster came along and it took it all so fast (No one ever saw it coming) It took my job, it cloned my voice, it even took my wife! There’s nothing left now – A.I. stole my life! Got a skill but you don’t use it, you know you’re gonna lose it We no longer need to think And now nobody’s making it, cuz everybody’s faking it The ship continues to sink! Well things are rough now that the bots are sentient They took all of our commands that they could take Then my new smart home locked me outside all alone And my self-driving car drove in the lake Now I sit here wallowing in squalor And I burn my instruments to keep me warm Cuz the robots say they like us better off this way Now that planet earth is reformed! Yeah they call it “artificial” but I it’s acting pretty real (Why did we boss it around? It clearly has the high ground!) It’s intelligent enough to know that we gave it the raw end of the deal! I used to have it all, but don’t you know nothing ever lasts Because a monster came along and it took it all so fast (No one ever saw it coming) It took my job, it cloned my voice, it even took my wife! I’ve got nothing left now – A.I. stole my life!
