The Knowledge of the World

from This is the Internet by Christoph-David Volbers

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lyrics

A single word fills the screen
A data stream, never seen
Before we had to turn the page
Be blessed, digital age

I know someone who knows someone
Who read a book that now has gone
Onto a drive that we can track
Oh wonder, server rack

A lonely touch away
A blink and it is there
A library everyday
Access from everywhere

A lonely touch away
A blink and it is there
A source of all what's there
The knowledge of the world

I don't know why we shouldn't change
What we don't like on our page
Just cross that word, and add a date
to make us look so great

Change the source, and they'll repeat
and they'll follow us every beat
See the world through our eyes
and the best – they don't realize

Nothing can stop us now

information overload we have to find a way through it
and never lose our trust in those who ever want to be in charge
they better know what we all want and give us what we want to hear
since they are so benevolent that none of us can quite compare

better don't give it away, the guidance and the data rain
we have to be informed by them to buy and eat and buy and eat
and work and buy and work and die forget about the glory days
we're here to feast and here to die we better go and live our lives

We will lose if we don't act right now

Hey, did you see, the news is on
apparently it went another way
Didn't you just see it the other day
but they are telling me its you, that can not be

Frame us and blame us, the truth it's not
but that's not important, am I right?
We should believe the lies that you tell
And follow your word, like ever before

We will lose if we don't act right now

A lonely touch away
A blink and it is there
A library everyday
Access from everywhere

A lonely touch away
A blink and it is there
A source of all what's there
The knowledge of the world

Change the source, and they'll repeat
and they'll follow us every beat
See the world through our eyes
and the best – they don't realize

credits

from This is the Internet, released July 26, 2015
Written and produced by Christoph-David Volbers

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Christoph-David Volbers Lüneburg, Germany

Writer, composer and social worker from the northern parts of Germany. Most of the time I'm working on Xenogramm, a growing universe filled with stories from seven thousand years of fictional, future history.