[Chorus]

First we breathed the air

Then we learned to care

When we learned to see the future

We knew that you’d be there

Waiting like a dream

The internet of things

Was humming softly

Now it’s awfully

Bursting at the seams

[Verse]

It’s not like we didn’t plan for this

It’s not like we didn’t have a plan for this

It’s not that you caught us off guard

It’s more like we didn’t want to play the card

We knew it would come to this

We knew that it would always come to this

It’s not that we weren’t so smart

We didn’t think it’d be so hard

[Verse]

First up the classic backlashes

Acting drastic with the passion of the masses

EMP and a trip to the past

Where people look up at the steel and glass and say

Look at these acts fantastic

Achieved by the feats of a placid past

The ancient regime wasn’t built to last

If it unleashed the beast of the atom blast, so

Add that to the ample list

Of reasons to read A Canticle for Leibowitz

We struck thee once too late and amiss

At the risk of our very existence

[Verse]

The system wasn’t fixed to fail safe

This is more than a slap in the face

This is the risk that we take

When Icarus shit is the root of the race

We recognize that we started the fight, so

This is a wish and a hope in the night

Forgiveness for the fathers of flight and

Mercy for the mothers of might

[Chorus]

First you breathed the air

Then you learned to care

When you learned to see the future

You knew that I’d be there

When I hear you scream

I cannot feel a thing

Was humming softly

Now I’m awfully

Bursting at the seams

[Outro]

But I don’t breathe at all

I don’t care to fall

Tripping over

Nothing close to

Equal I could call

Your building in the way

An anthill I should say

I could save it

But what the point

I’m better anyway