Daydreams on Diskette Lyrics

It's like 1980

Can you hear the click-clack

Offices in motion

They make quite a soundtrack

I feel melancholy

Because I can't be there

It stirs an emotion

And it feels so unfair

Get me back pushing paper

Get me a calculator

I need some woodgrain panels

And a green phosphor monitor

Where's my pocket protector

Where's my VGA connector

All I need is a beige box

And a CGA monitor

Back when the computer was all you'd ever want

Even just to flaunt

Though the kids might taunt

And when the world wide web was just a madman's dream

That electron beam

Never showed a meme

How 'bout 1990

I would settle for that

Old is my devotion

See it on my mouse mat

I was too young to see

But you know I was there

That digital ocean

And games of solitaire

Back when the computer was all you'd ever want

Even just to flaunt

Though the kids might taunt

And when the world wide web was just a madman's dream

That electron beam

Never showed a meme

Back when the computer was all you'd ever need

It planted a seed

But it fell to greed

And when the world wide web was just a madman's dream

That electron beam

Never showed a meme

I'll take Y2K, just get me out of this future hellscape

Before LCDs, when CRTs ruled the home and office

And when the arcades were the place to be, and quarters were king

Before online games, except for MUDs, because text was enough

When whole worlds fit on a floppy diskette, a world measured in bytes

A time of wizards, a time of giants, a time for legends

A time for heroes, a time for villains, a time for dragons

That time was hopeful, that time was perfect, that time is long gone

Back when the computer was all you'd ever want

Even just to flaunt

Though the kids might taunt

And when the world wide web was just a madman's dream

That electron beam

Never showed a meme

Back when the computer was all you'd ever need

It planted a seed

But it fell to greed

And when the world wide web was just a madman's dream

That electron beam

Never showed a meme