new Bright Eyes (Conor Oberst) single 'Singularity'

Hey All, I wrote The Lisps version. The lyrics did indeed change from the original blog post, which i put up the day I wrote the song. Below. are the final lyrics, thanks for all the interest in the song!

I’ll live to see a million things That men were never meant to see My senses and my faculties I’ll augment with machinery Auditory, optical, touch and taste olfactory Converted into data streams and floating bits of binary Every piece of food you taste and every thought you cogitate Every sound that you can hear and sight you see for years and years All stored up so conveniently on peta-bytes of memory So you can always reference them in case you forget anything
(REFRAIN) Singularity, Singularity. Singularity, Singularity…Oh I don’t know. 2X

Now once all that experience can fit into an easy grid Existence is no longer something mentally projected The wires that you have inside are very easily realized Through artificial imaging you duplicate 10 at a time Your consciousness can be enjoyed by anyone forever more And you live in whatever state that you or anyone creates You could be Giant Squirrel, a statue or a talking cat The Goodyear blimp, an etch a sketch, An octopus or a brain in a vat You keep all of the memories and feelings that you ever want And now you can commence your life as an uploaded extropian
(REFRAIN)

My mother is so horrified by this post-human fantasy She says you’d lose that special thing that makes us human beings be But I don’t know I’m not so sure if humans are so good and pure Perhaps we’d be much better off if we took these violent bodies off

Once everyone is in the cloud we’ll move beyond this earthly ground Expanding into outer space as an informational signal race Matter in the solar system converts into computing mass And the sun becomes a central orb of a brain that grows into the vast Expanse of space and emptiness for light years and light centuries It replicates exponentially like a Russian doll in a cosmic dream When every spot of the universe is filled up it will promptly burst Eradicating finally the experiment that we grew from earth As it explodes the brain will breathe into the dark impossibly and anti-matter all around will collapse the universe back down right away what you would see if you were a fly in the vacancy All the light and color in the universe is collapsing TIME WOULD STOP!!!!

And from the tiny pinhole point a massive bang erupts into space [BANG] And trillions of new particles fly away at a photonic pace

And once again the clock would start to tick and tock and tick and tock Years would pass, billions or more before the tiny proteins locked And yet again in the boiling seas of a miniscule blue anomaly A planet floating helplessly around a tiny ball so fiery an unextraordinary corner of the universe would cradle it The flicker of intelligence that led us here and brought us this

(REFRAIN) 2X

http://soundcloud.com/thelisps/singularity

Hey All, I wrote The Lisps version. The lyrics did indeed change from the blog post, which i put up the day I wrote the song. Below. are the final lyrics. I'm thrilled by this thread, thanks!

I’ll live to see a million things That men were never meant to see My senses and my faculties I’ll augment with machinery Auditory, optical, touch and taste olfactory Converted into data streams and floating bits of binary Every piece of food you taste and every thought you cogitate Every sound that you can hear and sight you see for years and years All stored up so conveniently on peta-bytes of memory So you can always reference them in case you forget anything

(REFRAIN) Singularity, Singularity. Singularity, Singularity…Oh I don’t know. 2X

Now once all that experience can fit into an easy grid Existence is no longer something mentally projected The wires that you have inside are very easily realized Through artificial imaging you duplicate 10 at a time Your consciousness can be enjoyed by anyone forever more And you live in whatever state that you or anyone creates You could be Giant Squirrel, a statue or a talking cat The Goodyear blimp, an etch a sketch, An octopus or a brain in a vat You keep all of the memories and feelings that you ever want And now you can commence your life as an uploaded extropian

(REFRAIN)

My mother is so horrified by this post-human fantasy She says you’d lose that special thing that makes us human beings be

But I don’t know I’m not so sure if humans are so good and pure Perhaps we’d be much better off if we took these violent bodies off

Once everyone is in the cloud we’ll move beyond this earthly ground Expanding into outer space as an informational signal race Matter in the solar system converts into computing mass And the sun becomes a central orb of a brain that grows into the vast Expanse of space and emptiness for light years and light centuries It replicates exponentially like a Russian doll in a cosmic dream When every spot of the universe is filled up it will promptly burst Eradicating finally the experiment that we grew from earth As it explodes the brain will breathe into the dark impossibly and anti-matter all around will collapse the universe back down right away what you would see if you were a fly in the vacancy All the light and color in the universe is collapsing TIME WOULD STOP!!!!

And from the tiny pinhead point a massive bang erupts into space [BANG] And trillions of new particles fly away at a photonic pace [NOISE]

And once again the clock would start to tick and tock and tick and tock Years would pass, billions or more before the tiny proteins locked And yet again in the boiling seas of a miniscule blue anomaly A planet floating helplessly around a tiny ball so fiery an unextraordinary corner of the universe would cradle it The flicker of intelligence that led us here and brought us this

(REFRAIN) 2X