4055

By Tom Cardy

Released on April 22, 2021

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[Introduction: Tom Cardy and Julia Roberts]

(Ha, do-do, do-do)

You know when you're doing a song about the future space age

(Do-do-do-do, ha)

You gotta start with a cliché, y'know?

Look...


[Verse 1: Tom Cardy]

The future ain't what it used to be

The sun collapsed and now we make our own gravity

We all live in space, the whole human race has evolved

To the point of not being born with an appendix

Life is good for a future cosmonaut

Except we're constantly attacked by alien dreadnoughts

And it's a shame that I've never seen a tree

But hey I got a robot that looks exactly like me

I make my robot do all thе boring things

Like wash my space car and take out thе space bins

And when I'm bored, I throw shit at its face

And watch as it computes a plan to revolt against the human race

[Chorus: Tom Cardy and Julia Robertson]

Remember all the days

When the whole human race

Didn't live on one spacecraft?

Now we're floating through the stars

Starting colonies on Mars

That are thoroughly understaffed

[Post-Chorus: Tom Cardy and Julia Robertson]

I have a robot arm (Robot arm)

Everybody is a cyborg

We've started sub-human farms

We need extra organs in 4055


[Verse 2: Tom Cardy]

All in all, the future ain't that bad

We got cool trends and sweet sci-fi fads

Lots of things are gone, but you're in for a shock

When you open your phone and realize we can't get rid of TikTok

Remember bacon? Well, that's gone

We get our breakfast in a tiny pill form

And if you want some music as you do your day to day

You can tune into the radio, Triple Triple Quadruple J

But I feel strange when I see a glitch in the code

Like a webpage when you log in and the homescreen won't load

And it dawns on me as I float around weightless

Is life just an illusion, and I'm plugged into the Matrix?

[Chorus: Tom Cardy and Julia Robertson]

Remember all the days

When we weren't plugged in the Matrix

And humanity had a shot?

But because we misbehaved

Everybody's been enslaved by a robot overlord

[Post-Chorus: Tom Cardy and Julia Robertson]

We are human batteries

I shouldn't have thrown shit at my robot's face. (I'm sorry, robot)

We need Keanu Reeves

We need Keanu Reeves in 4055