The Asperger messiah spits hot fire Calling you strange, calling you tired It's a new age, what we require has changed Rewire your brain The Asperger messiah spits hot fire Calling you strange, calling you tired It's a new age, what we require has changed Rewire your brain 2001, the ape with the bone Mouths agape when he cracked that skull Taking his place at the throne Throwing that bone up high First one to die, first one to kill another person First one bitten by the serpent, breaking the circuit Making up a world that reflects architecture In her mind, not the times The ones that claim degeneration Are on the losing side of the equation, ancient Ain't it nice When the disabled are better able to cope with life Once the bubble bursts If you can live amongst the rubble you'll be first Once the bubble bursts If you can live amongst the rubble you'll be first The Asperger messiah spits hot fire Calling you strange, calling you tired It's a new age, what we require has changed Rewire your brain The Asperger messiah spits hot fire Calling you strange, calling you tired It's a new age, what we require has changed Rewire your brain The single biggest check on the size of our heads Is the wideness of our hips The next leap forward will have to reorder And trash what doesn't fit Did you think you'd know him when he came? Did you think that you'd be saved? The quantum leaper is born with features Tailored to the future not today Inflexible behaviour, high inheritability Exceptional logic, specific abilities Narrowly defined deeply-mined pools of interest The ol' specialist Social deficiencies, sure, the cure Is to spend more time online than in the world And isn't the world changing? The big picture's Not feelings, just the figures Big data, bigger magic Never be a wizard and that's so tragic Big data, big big magic We'll never be wizards, just average The Asperger messiah spits hot fire Calling you strange, calling you tired It's a new age, what we require has changed Rewire your brain The Asperger messiah spits hot fire Calling you strange, calling you tired It's a new age, what we require has changed Rewire your brain

I'm reading a new novel, we jostle We jockey for position, we're conditioned No collisions We're not passenger pigeons but we're close Fly to the city to feed, glide back home If work isn't filling, our pockets are willing To pick up the slack Everyone survives, no one dies but No one thrives 'til they're pulling in the cash You can build a house but not a home You can build a house but not a home Nothing but a bunch of skin and bones You can build a house but not a home So go west young man, go west young man Until the land runs out Go west young man, go west young man Until the land runs out Grow with your country, go work up North Keeping moving keeps you warm Keep improving, moving forward Making something of yourself Meaning wealth, meaning saving Accumulating, trading Making a race out of waiting For coffee, waiting for the day That I get to be bossy, watch me I'll be awfully efficient Ashamed of my life and its mission But to change is to admit The goal should be different And I'm not moving the posts From this distance Not when I'm oh so close You can build a house but not a home You can build a house but not a home I'm reading a book about fossils Cold powdered drugs drip down my nostrils The guy behind me's hostily Asking if he can borrow a phone I rely on my silent headphones for protection Don't move my eyes but he consumes my attention Rehearsing my lies, like "my battery's dead" Or "I don't have many minutes left" If all else fails, "this is my stop" But only til the next train comes Cause really it's not Really, I'm not a bad guy, even high My friends love me and I treat them right But they're all my age and all my race And all my situation, ok, some are asian But the point is they're not diverse Like school said we were, Canadian My world shrunk back down after school Big fish, above ground pool Pocket billiards in suburban basements Wading through wasteage and pavement Sailing over strange shit "Islam? Read Quran" spelled in white stones On an otherwise normal roof, wasted Oh to youth, oh to dreams beyond my station Ode to exploration, making changes Ashamed of my life now, it's aimless But to change it's To admit there's something's wrong It's better to go along, they say Fake it til you make it Well, fake it til it breaks and you can't take it You can build a house but not a home You can build a house but not a home Nothing but a bunch of skin and bones You can build a house but not a home I've been holding out for more I've been holding out for more I've been holding out for more I've been holding out for more

Last in a line I'm as far as this can go I will never be fine This old world isn't mine Used to feel it now I know, whoa-oh Kids are cruel but they're shameless They want to know why you aren't the same as Them, again, they're not blaming you They just want to understand You're not damned yet, they'll get There soon though, hide what you can What still shows through might get pretty hard for you Pretty helps too, pretty can't hurt Pretty makes the rules, better watch how they work Better work hard, show you've got worth Make it worth their while to put up with your style Or your smile or your mind, make it worth their time To expand their land to include your kind Pray they never find something they can't abide And throw you back outside It's cold there, souls there Are broken but in different ways Opposites attract cause They're both trying to compensate Things they learned to hate About themselves, their babies Will not be as strange as Them and end up Last in a line I'm as far as this can go I will never be fine This old world isn't mine Used to feel it now I know, whoa-oh We grew up together I began to wonder whether It would ever get better for you They say "it gets better" now But it got worse first You skipped school, I should have tried To fight them more, I think I knew It's easier to burn a witch Than fight a war, pass me a torch Cause I'm the next one they'd come for Pass me a pitchfork I'm so insecure Like girls, ok, I'm so into her My friend, yeah, he's too different to Even get invited to the parties I complained about it once He told the host I wasn't happy That almost cost me my invite After that I kept him on the outside I regret it, can't forget it There's nights when I lie so pathetic Wouldn't wish this on anyone Last in a line is fine, I won't pass it on It'll die with me, mercifully Any more would be unbearable And I won't bear an enfant terrible, the Last in a line I'm as far as this can go I will never be fine This old world isn't mine Used to feel it now I know, whoa-oh Last in a line I'm as far as this can go I will never be fine This old world isn't mine Used to feel it now I know, whoa-oh

I'm sick of hearing how we upset the balance And the world would be fine in our absence That's such a negative vision So let me show you how to flip it If it was really like that Life wouldn't almost have died five times Before we arrived, no, life's goal is suicide And we're the only ones who can save it How's that for positive? It's possible, but the proof gets weird though, so here we go Every organism fucks and dies more than they need to Well beyond what the planet can support They make poison out of closed systems And they kill most of their brothers 'cause of competition Listen, can you hear the feedback loop? It's getting stronger that's how most in nature react too Winners oversucceed, drown in their own waste And get replaced by new ones who can stand the taste 'Cause we all eat something's shit We just also learned to gas a car with it, hyeah Let's go do something dumb today See what we can break I know that we'll get out of it I'm positive Let's go do something dumb today See what we can break I know that we'll get out of it I'm positive Snowball Earths have happened twice Thats where the whole world's frozen ice Greenhouse gasses, mass extinctions All of these were caused by life, right? But we're not automatons, we understand wrong And we can see it coming So while microbes and plankton are dumb and don't plan Then I'm sure we can come up with something Something will save us, it won't be our natures At least not our gut feelings and base behaviours But we can be saviours, buy some time For every single other kind of life Currently living, stop them from doing too well Taking things over, choking themselves to death If life wants to die, we can realize that And try to fight back, yep Let's go do something dumb today See what we can break I know that we'll get out of it I'm positive Let's go do something dumb today See what we can break I know that we'll get out of it I'm positive Na na na na na na na na na na Na na na na na na na na na na

Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooooh Ooh ooh ooh oooh Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooooh Ooh ooh ooh ooh I'm taking a fall for the bigger man I'm taking a fall for the bigger man I'm taking a fall for him, so 1, 2, 1 2 3 and I'm taking a fall for the bigger man I'm taking a fall for the bigger man 1, 2, 1 2 3 and American exceptionalism is justified And I can prove it, they didn't choose it But don't confuse it, the last users died So fast that those they left behind Couldn't guard the ruins, trees grew back So vast they seemed to last forever No past, no future just the present Grow back, grow into something special I feel special like Only those who've never had it bad can feel I never had to deal with pain worse than braces How would you play this hand of aces? Balls back, respect that, twos before we play Not my fault, we are following the rules of the game Rule makers make the best rule breakers But very poor saviours I'm taking a fall for the bigger man I'm taking a fall for the bigger man I'm taking a fall for him, so 1, 2, 1 2 3 and I'm taking a fall for the bigger man I'm taking a fall for the bigger man 1, 2, 1 2 3 and Any time a lucky guy does decent He starts believing that he knows a little secret When people ask him how he did it, can he teach it He'll tell them, do as I have done and you'll repeat it More of me would make the world a better place to be in For me, he goes blind to other ways to be as he Applies what worked for him to everybody universally America's a terrible accident What worked for it won't work for anybody after it It's not a model, don't follow it Take its money, cut the strings Make it work for you where you live Celebrate the fact that it exists But know you don't want to be like it A round of applause for the bigger man A round of applause for the bigger man A round of applause for him, so 1, 2, 1 2 3 and A round of applause for the bigger man A round of applause for the bigger man 1, 2, 1 2 3 and A round of applause for the bigger man A round of applause for the bigger man A round of applause for him, so 1, 2, 1 2 3 and A round of applause for the bigger man A round of applause for the bigger man 1, 2, 1 2 3 and 1, 2, 1 2 3 and 1, 2, 1 2 3 and 1, 2, 1 2 3 and 1, 2, 1 2 3 and 1, 2, 1 2 3 and 1, 2, 1 2 3 and

I get worked up about the world So I forget about the troubles that I've got Now, I should really tell a joke or something Keep it light, like I'm not Waiting for the other shoe to drop Yeah, but my life is not sustainable So imagine what would happen if it scaled up I'm never gonna be too big to fail But I can bale, I can tread water I could ride a whale if it let me Mother father please test me Because I test so well (uh oh) Think I chose the wrong field (uh huh) Can you tell that I'm out of place Cockroach style, right answer, wrong face Objectively better, objective: be better All that matters is taste Cause everyone's clever, and everyone ever Can stick a few letters together Wear them in until they're fitting Like a favourite sweater I wonder whether the weather will improve? Something better happen soon So many better things I bet I could do Something better happen soon I want to be wanted, I'm used to being used Something better happen soon There is a tune in my heart But it's gloomy and dark, like a night with no moon Except it's barely afternoon And something better happen soon Money's a substitute there's no substitute for It misses more than it counts Everything that's actually important Is never recorded in the balance of a bank account So now I shouldn't mind that my time Isn't worth a dime let alone a dollar amount But the bottom line counts, and for me it counts down To the day my attempted escape Just becomes a mistake I should never have made I wonder whether the weather will improve? Something better happen soon So many better things I bet I could do Something better happen soon I want to be wanted, I'm used to being used Something better happen soon There is a tune in my heart But it's gloomy and dark, like a night with no moon Except it's barely afternoon And something better happen soon

Take notes, read books, write songs with hooks Build beats, make loops, then jump through hoops Say something new, say something useful Not just the simple pain of refusal My pain is rootless, ruthless, roofless Rue this, true that I don't know how to act But it feels like an act Oh I feel like an actor I've gotta watch my posture Clock your eyes, I'm an impostor The real me can't bear to be real But the fake me is flesh And he's blood and he kills No pills but I'm trying to merge them Feel okay with the most recent version Of me, oh, since the open-heart surgery Do we have to be fucked to be free? We were always free I see that clearly now At any point in the ride We decide Give and take, loss is the reason that people create Find a new way, find a path to escape Living among the remains of the past Won't unmask why they didn't last They'll kick you in the ass though Watching something die can be so powerful We went around the circle citing deaths That we'd seen, like that was the reason We all were artistes De temps en temps, j'suis triste Plus existentialiste que des morts specifiques Or whole species extinct And there's more on the brink Are we morons who just can't think? No we're not! We just won the race is all Trying not to spend our winnings at the mall Counting coins is a hollow victory Sinking in that happiness is mostly free We were always free I see that clearly now At any point in the ride We decide Take notes, read books, write songs with hooks Build beats, make loops, then jump through hoops Say something new, say something useful Not just the simple pain of refusal Take notes, read books, write songs with hooks Build beats, make loops, then jump through hoops Say something new, say something useful Not just the simple pain of refusal

We are in the club, chasing after love Chasing after shots of liquor Dancing up a storm, sweating in the warm Oven loving every minute We don't even know yet, know yet Cold sweat on his forehead Sitting in the shelter, drinking alka-seltzer What a relief it is You'd swear it was the 60s, they're all in their sixties They've seen the death of their best years They don't even know yet, know yet Until he speaks, he says Ladies and gentlemen, the world is infected Projections are worse than expected We have an injection to stall the progression So we can all get re-elected But the method is ethically dubious Remember Vesuvius? Well, that's what it's like A few thousand tons of soot in the sky And the sun can't get through quite as bright We don't have to change what we're doing We don't have to hurt anyone We've already started the seeding, I need Your okay to proceed with phase one We don't have to change what we're doing We don't have to hurt anyone We've already started the seeding, I need Your okay to proceed with phase one It's been a hot summer How about a nuclear winter? It's been a hot summer How about a nuclear winter? It's been a hot summer How about a nuclear winter? How about a nuclear winter? How about a nuclear winter? It's hard to remember in hot summer clubs Normal people are so risk averse Parties get crazy and memories hazy But they wouldn't mess with the Earth They don't even know yet, know yet We met in the back by the TV set He said I don't like to drink It makes me want such normal things I don't like to drink I want such normal things Can't keep my distance, can't make decisions They look so happy, let's keep them dancing We don't have to change what we're doing We don't have to hurt anyone We've already started the seeding The plan is proceeding it's already done We don't have to change what we're doing We don't have to hurt anyone We've already started the seeding The plan is proceeding it's already done It's been a hot summer How about a nuclear winter? It's been a hot summer How about a nuclear winter? It's been a hot summer How about a nuclear winter? How about a nuclear winter? How about a nuclear winter? It's been a hot summer How about a nuclear winter? It's been a hot summer How about a nuclear winter? It's been a hot summer How about a nuclear winter? How about a nuclear winter? How about a nuclear winter?

We depend on an ordinary guy With an ordinary job and an ordinary life Picking things, pulled by strings What he'll buy is what we decide Of course the ordinary's imaginary No one's average, exactly But moving the mean is the only way We can change a democracy Policy can't pass Paul, you see Or Jess, or Joe, or Jan As long as they can still be swayed When they don't understand For every dollar they spend, someone has ten Gotten doing rotten things we should end Plenty of people invest in this evil Most can't spare the time to care, cause they're Trying to live their lives, right? They're trying to live their lives right They're like: "Give me something to fight Give me something to change, I'm too tired tonight" We depend on an ordinary girl With an ordinary job in the ordinary world Picking things, pulled by strings What she'll buy is what we decide You can't focus on behaviour Say: "do this, do that," then you become a saviour When one part's disproven, improved on Your act gets ruined, people go back to square one Our best guesses will change It's stressful and strange to be left rearranged Butif you teach the tools and the process in school Then revising the rules feels like progress, it's cool Don't get hung up on hypocrites Or caught comparing carbon footprints If they can say and not do You can do and not say and we'll all be ok, anyway Any stance that you take is important Any chance to debate moves us forward The mean is made of nice people Who'd be very happy to know you We depend on an ordinary guy With an ordinary job and an ordinary life Picking things, pulled by strings What he'll buy is what we decide Now, I meant buy as in trust But I also mean buy as in buying stuff Ads add up, even competing ones make the ask "This one or that one?" not "do I need either?" A trillion dollars a year bends ears To buy more things to build more things to buy You can wonder why but it won't stop it Go shopping, go jogging, same endorphins So, it was in our organs first Fighting back is such important work Status is a zero-sum game The bottom of every pile feels shame Even one where everyone's great People omit and obsess and inflate So don't hate, compare to relate Decide what you like and what we should replace Then don't wait We depend on an ordinary girl With an ordinary job in the ordinary world Picking things, pulled by strings What she'll buy is what we decide I learned nothing, I learned nothing I read so much, I read so much I learned nothing, I learned nothing I read so much, I read so much

Sonofabitch is ice cold this morning That's why we say climate change not global warming Global warnings, I up the thermostat Bean bag, boy, tell me where my freaking thermos at I could wear a hat and a sweater weather But I can't be bothered to dress to the temperature Sure I live a comfortable life, I guess What should I do, should I really live with less? Well no one showed me how to do that best Is my measure my pleasure? Success, me depressed? Hard to get distressed when you feel powerless, my people Aren't content to treat their parents as their equals Slow on their mobile phones, and on the line Why should we settle for less, when now is our time? So pour the wine they made, it's aged Toast my, toast your early graves I know the way I'll get it under control Just not today Sonofabitch is ice cold I know the way I'll get it under control Just not today Sonofabitch is ice cold Cause see, north of the 49 we'll mostly be fine Real estate prices'll rise, water'll be prized So what a suprise that we ignore the climate targets And care so much about sovereignty in the arctic Artists speak their minds, but need exposure Headline festivals sponsored by Kinder Morgan Scientists get revised or they get muzzled And some get paid to keep everybody puzzled Ain't nobody puzzling me, I got a degree I still don't know how the hell we should proceed It's prob'ly a process I guess, Bobbing heads hanging heavy with debt, yep I know the way I'll get it under control Just not today Sonofabitch is ice cold I know the way I'll get it under control Just not today Sonofabitch is ice cold I'm not selfish, I'm not lazy but What have the people from the far future done for me lately? Are they living with the problems we're not solving now? Or are their lives incredibly awesome somehow? Inventions we'll get to, energy we'll harness Nature replenished with clones of departed Beasts, and they all party in the streets If they told me that then I could be at peace, peace I know the way I'll get it under control Just not today Sonofabitch is ice cold I know the way I'll get it under control Just not today Sonofabitch is ice cold

Like a switch flipped, I stopped searching When I realized nothing's perfect From the beginning, perfect things were here before us But touching messed them up, we demanded love, we demanded trust We expected the jackpot would hit, if we played long enough But here's a true thing that sounds pretty dumb Unlikely stuff prob'ly won't happen for us, and there's A lot of us; if I mess this up where can I go? This'll still be home, but I won't fit here anymore So commit, put down your chips Commit, go cash them in Commit, push past don't quit Commit, make it work Commit, put down your chips Commit, go cash them in Commit, push past don't quit Commit, make it work Every time I feel brave Turns out that I'm running from something scarier Every time I get stuck, I'm up Against one of my own barriers Every time I feel brave Turns out that I'm running from something scarier Every time I get stuck, I'm up Against one of my own barriers And I'm terrified, so I know it's right This part of me, it needs to open Start a life, not agonize About the one I've chosen So commit, put down your chips Commit, go cash them in Commit, push past don't quit Commit, make it work So commit, put down your chips Commit, go cash them in Commit, push past don't quit Commit, make it work Right, so let's say we're given a life at random Out of all of the human lives that have happened and will happen And now we're asking What are the chances that ours isn't average That we are one of the very first And the future's bringing more and better, not less and worse But here's a true thing that sounds pretty dumb Unlikely stuff prob'ly isn't true of us And there's a lot of us; more now than ever before So we shouldn't trust a theory that puts us on the ground floor Of a great exception, We could be great though it's all here in our heads It's a mindset, not grass is greener, but grass gets Good when you sweat, care for and love it And if you live in a desert, maybe choose something less wet? Cultivate it! Commit, put down your chips Commit, go cash them in Commit, push past don't quit Commit, make it work Commit, put down your chips Commit, go cash them in Commit, push past don't quit Commit, make it work Every time I feel brave Turns out that I'm running from something scarier Every time I get stuck, I'm up Against one of my own barriers Every time I feel brave Turns out that I'm running from something scarier Every time I get stuck, I'm up Against one of my own barriers

Forgiveness like I didn't know existed Forgiveness like I thought was religious Forgiveness I gave up on guilt like vomiting blood I did what I did and it can't be undone The cool of the bowl, the emptying drain Too slippery to hold, old comfortable pain Slippery to hold, slipping away They're piling on, people I've wronged The ones I remember, then the ones I forgot Never thought they'd add up, never thought they would talk Now I'm short of breath, and I wish it would stop I'm short of breath, come on, wake me up You get a second chance, you get a second try You get a second dance, you get a second night You get a second man, you get a second wife You get a second glance, you get a second sight You get a second chance, you get a second try If lives didn't end we'd all be dead by now Lost to vendettas, debts, bored, wars, mushroom clouds Stuck in our ways and scared to change them Blaming things on people we're estranged from Blaming things on people, saying we hate them So I'm glad I'll die, and my grudges too When new kids are born, they can make their own I'm glad I'll die, you won't pardon me When new kids are born, they will still be free When new kids are born, they will eat their own You get a second chance, you get a second try You get a second dance, you get a second night You get a second man, you get a second wife You get a second glance, you get a second sight You get a second chance, you get a second try So shrink the whole world's history to a single year It'll turn to April before the first life appears In mid July plants will come ashore In late September, there'll be dinosaurs In late November, there will be no more And on the last day, New Year's eve We'll throw a party, most our friends'll leave Those last five minutes are our whole history Jesus comes a minute seventeen Before the clock strikes, you and me We get a second We get a second We get a second [Ilya Bryzgalov: See it, our galaxy's like, huge But if you see the big picture Our galaxy's like small, tiny dot in the universe, like. And you think, like, "and we have some problems Here on the Earth we worry about? Compared to like Nothing." Just be happy, don't worry, be happy right now.]

Suddenly it all felt clear to me I can't believe I didn't used to like to dance I've got ideas about how this should be But I can't compete with the committee of your friends So tell me what did they say about me? What did they say about us? Is it a big mistake Or could it maybe just be love? Didn't work out the last time But I feel I'm changing We're not better now But I think we're more ourselves Let's write, let's write a love song Let's write, let's write a love song To keep me human, won't you Keep me human Let's write, let's write a love song Let's write, let's write a love song To keep me human, won't you Keep me human, won't you Do do do do do do do do do Do do do do do do do do do Do do do do do do Do do do do Is it a coincidence that geniuses end up alone? Their massive thoughts get sadder As they grow and grow and grow And push down paths to secret places No one else has ever gone Til they've been gone too long And don't know right from wrong So when their thoughts catch on Naturally they're used wrong Think about atomic bombs, well, they're not evil Atomic power helps people but Maybe there's things we're not ready to handle That come from obsession and loss And we should question the cost Of looking up to Steve Jobs and Elon Musk I don't trust when the answer comes From the bottom of a deep dark hole How can they know what people above want With withered hearts of coal? So I would rather be happy and smart Than have a brain that glows in the dark and I bet what I make will be better art, ah That look in your face makes me want to start Please help me Let's write, let's write a love song Let's write, let's write a love song To keep me human, won't you Keep me human Let's write, let's write a love song Let's write, let's write a love song To keep me human, won't you Keep me human Let's write, let's write a love song Let's write, let's write a love song To keep me human, won't you Keep me human Let's write, let's write a love song Let's write, let's write a love song To keep me human, won't you Keep me human