Big Lan, small tan, open plan, a loser's got no choice
Computer world
At birth organisms join a competition to determine which ones mate and which are killed, or exploited in the victors' breeding program. Losers experience dysphoria, motivating them either to try harder or to suicide to avoid exploitation by winners. Heirarchical society arises out of the availability of drugs and entertainments which mask these perceptions, allowing losers to occupy a position which has low status, yet feels acceptable to them.
Recently, personal computers and the internet have joined this list of diversions. New Waver presents interpretations of Kraftwerk's 1980 album Computer World, updated to reflect this outcome.
Keywords: computer, internet, entertainment, Prozac
Fairly smart, but can't compete
In the playground you are weak
Of hopes and dreams, you are bereft
Only one place now is left
Loneliness, despair, suspicion, masturbation
Star Trek, coffee, Pink Floyd, Doom
Computer world
Computer shop in Alphington
CPU and CD-ROM
Think they're buying weekend fun
Can't install, want refund
Printers, modems, RAM, Windows
Out of paper, freezing up, not connecting, deleted accidentally
Computer world
Stuff your science, stick your art
You must be a boring fart
Unis enter modern age
Now we learn to make web page
Netscape, Frontpage, Photoshop, HTML
How's it look, where's the graphics, use a font, Internet 101
Computer world
Killing bad guys with a mouse
Too afraid to leave the house
Stay online, avoid the yobs
Good practice for your office job
Eye strain, back pain, no gain, high-pitched quiet voice
Big Lan, small tan, open plan, a loser's got no choice
Computer world
Computer love
Where's my data glove?
Another lonely night
Stare at the TV screen
Don't know what to do
Need a rendezvous
I dial this number
For a data date
Love life virtual
In other words, a wank
Don't know what to do
Real world not for you
No more lonely nights
Go to our web site
Computer love, it's all you have
Going out Saturday night?
Gonna play some Doom
It's more fun to compute
Do you jam on the weekend?
I sequence in my room
It's more fun to compute
Do you like meeting people?
I use IRC
It's more fun to compute
Pub after work?
I'm finishing off my spreadsheet
It's more fun to compute
I'm the operator with my pocket calculator
I am adding, and subtracting
I'm decaying, and despairing
I'm the Windows user with my Pentium computer
I am typing, I am filing
I am sighing, I am dying
By getting beaten up at school I'm doomed to use the uncool tool
Computers aren't that user-friendly but at least they don't offend me
I'm administrator with a clunky calculator
I upgrade my home computer
Handyman of the future
Bigger hard disk, larger ram
Cheaper than a panel van
Learning 'bout my home computer
Working for a brighter future
Windows help file is my tutor
Getting bored, start up a shooter
Linux nowhere to be seen
But our software it is free
Footy mates at my barbie
Pass around a burned cd
I maintain my home computer
I have no genetic future
Single income no offspring
I am working for nothing