Name: With Apologies to Cory Doctorow
Duration: P00H03M11S
Description: Week 13 of my weekly song project. This song is a science fiction story, and a not very original one at that.

With Apologies to Cory Doctorow

by Billy Cromb

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Week 13 of my weekly song project. This song is a science fiction story, and a not very original one at that.

lyrics

In the passenger seat
Of a bright yellow SUV
An eleven year old kid
Is feeling down about everything
His mom doesn't understand
She sees the device in his hand
but to her it's a toy

Well he'd never felt
Connected like that
To anyone before
Maybe never again
All the people that he loved the best
Were cut off, no longer had access
to the game

They are pixels on a screen
or sometimes unseen at all

The ghost in the machine
got kicked out of the shopping mall

All the magic of the early betas
was omitted from the final release
Or blocked on copyright grounds in some countries

He'd finally found
something bigger than himself
It meant something then
But now it means something else
They say he's got healthy imagination
When talks about fighting a brutal regime
But he knows it's real

At least it was
Before the patch and the purge
His friends are all gone
Replaced with dumb bots
And the worst part about it all
Is how they didn't even kick him off
They still want him as a customer

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released December 1, 2013
Cover art adapted from "Flame On!" by Flickr user Todd Anderson under the attribution share alike license.
flickr.com/photos/toddography/

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