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A​.​I. (Space Elevator Suite, Op. 2018, No. 2)

from For The Time Being by Montgomery Street Band

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This is a bit of a mixed media piece. Not only in its production but in its composition. The rhythm for the bass and mandolin melody is derived from the writing system of braille...except for the fourth phrase, that is original.

It basically breaks down the 2x3 dot pattern into six-eight time, or compound meter. In this case, the time signature is nine-eight, to give it more of a waltz feel for the verses. The chorus is a good ol' bluegrass drive with a twist of jazz.

lyrics

Artificial intelligence is on the verge of a singularity, so we are told.
A singularity that would see machines outsmart its creator.
An enslavement of humanity is a possible outcome.
The A I singularity is not on its way, it has already arrived.
This singularity we fear is really the extreme wealth.
Their nano bots are taking our information, our time, our lives.

They have invented a machine to help them take more.
A machine that should have never been made.
They turned it on, it has gone critical.
We are the hydrocarbon of fear, feeding the beast.
Focus not on the A I machine.
Look at the system placed upon us.
A system of wealth accumulation.
A capital growth intelligence.
An artificial, intelligence.

(Chorus)
A I (plutocracy implied)
Life monotized (precious metals causing tears)
Wealth it has no mind (hate blinds the cogs and gears)
Google bomb their lies (until their motherboards are fried)

Extreme wealth is a form of artificial intelligence.
Being wealthy does not infer true intelligence.
Why do we allow ourselves peonage in a game played by rich people?
A game determining how we live our lives.
Criticize and scrutinize your plutocrats.
Question their version of this, and that.
The end will be what you have been coerced to believe.
If it’s hell you choose to believe, hell is how it shall be.

What gives them the right to legislate their morals?
Inflating their false intelligence.
We have been corralled in a buffalo jump of lies.
Wealth sits in the upper echelons of the government machine.
Artificially.
Spare the envy politics, envying war criminals is evil.
They should feel privileged as hell to be running the machine,
Instead of being privileged, by running the machine to hell.

(Chorus)
A I (theocracy applied)
Life monetized (confessions on deaf ears)
Wealth it has no mind (economy of fears)
Google bomb their lies (sheer the wool from your eyes)

A I (hypocrisy in strides)
Life monetized (losing all our years)
Wealth it has no mind (Where are the engineers)
Google bomb their lies (No longer sympathize)

(instrumental)

If we are to believe that A I will enslave,
If extreme wealth uses it to make more wealth, it will.
A lass, they have begun.
Billions of dollars off the data we create.
Our space, our privacy, our right to be left alone,
Filled with million dollar cookies.
They are writing constitutions.
We’re writing songs with a lilt.
They think they are winning.
But they’re just whales on stilts.

Government is like a train.
We hire people to drive and maintain it for us.
We occupy the cars that have been made for us.
If we did not exist, the train cars would be pointless and unnecessary.
We can thus be considered a vital part of the train.
We are the train, we are the government, us the people.
If they have not already been cut, we have the power to pull the breaks.

(Chorus)
A I (plutocracy implied)
Life monotized (precious metals causing tears)
Wealth it has no mind (hate blinds the cogs and gears)
Google bomb their lies. (until their motherboards are fried)

A I (theocracy applied)
Life monetized (confessions on deaf ears)
Wealth it has no mind (economy of fears)
Google bomb their lies (sheer the wool from your eyes)

A I (hypocrisy in strides)
Life monetized (losing all our years)
Wealth it has no mind (Where are the engineers)
Google bomb their lies (No longer sympathize)

VII
We are told you can exit right or left.
After all, it is the way you came in.
If you hop off the train and it pulls away,
It will follow the tracks.
And you will be free to choose any direction.
So go ahead, criticize your government, please do.
Just remember, you also criticize us,
The artificial people
We are you

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from For The Time Being, released September 21, 2021

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