Eric Wood

 

Don’t Just Dance

 

The place’s pulse was pounding, impervious to peace

An air of expectation was palpable at least

The minions pressing forward clamoring to be pleased

The speaker took the podium, all commotion ceased

A way had been discovered, the crowd would now be told

To, with the human genome, encrypt & encode

A new hyper-computer onto a single chip

Too tiny to be held between an infant’s fingertips

Not silicon or athlon but from leeches synthesized

A living organism, injectable, devised

To make us even smarter than we may not fortunately be

Help us live forever, help us to be free

Free from ever dying, free from fear or sin

Free from making children or leaving the world to them

Free to want for nothing it’s hard to imagine

You’d have to be John Lennon on some powerful opium

 

Wake up man!

Don’t be conned

Make new plans

Bust your bond

Take a chance

Sing your song

Don’t Just Dance

Don’t Just Dance

Don’t Just Dance

 

Sometimes I get this feeling, feels like all alone

The further out it takes me, the closer I’m to home

It sort of seems it’s sacred and’ll take me ‘til I’m gone

I can’t shake this feeling, it’s the deepest one I’ve known

So I hold it where I feels it closest to my soul

I don’t want to lose it, I can’t bear to let it go

‘times I hear it callin’ like a freight train in the night

I can ‘tell the time’s a-comin’ I’ll be goin’ for that ride

Maybe where’ its bound be far from fate or form

And death more than an opportunity to be re-born

I don’t want the spoils, they only bring me pain

The only thing I’m loyal to’s this feeling in my veins

I don’t want their progress, don’t need to MAP the stars

Won’t eat their latest Starlink, don’t want to live on Mars

I’ll go with this feeling; dark as it may be

Far as it may take me from this tall technocracy

 

(Repeat chorus)