Wolfgang Amadeus Ex Machina Lyrics

I wonder how much bigger Shenzhen coulda been

If Deng Xiaoping drank Monster Energy

The Kowloon walled city would have welcomed me

I'd woulda had run best dumpling joint Guangdong'd ever seen

The mistake i made was using Face ID

Now Siri knows I lost the genetic lottery

And if I fuck up my life and drive myself to wits end

My AI will only Ever see me as a friend

Where does life end and original thought start?

My whole childhood I thought I was the next Mozart

But if he was so smart, better than his friends?

How come I'm still alive, and he's in the grave dead?

The consent given to genius is fickle like the sun

One day it warms you, then burns you for fun

And if you criticise, you get met with everyone

Telling you it's just nature, nothing can be done

Yet we give them our wallets, our newspapers, our screens

Trust them to save us, fulfill all our dreams

The hands for piano are now hands on computer keys

Which log all our thoughts, and rewrite our scenes

And so you play the fool, grasping at straws

Convincing yourself it's the fault of the poor

But you too have an iPhone, just like them all

I'd have more respect if you just came clean

And admitted it was about money and chasing a dream

That's got nothing to do with policing my tone

That you only care about giving your children a home

And who am I to blame if you want comfort over strife

Mao didn't fight to hear things go bump in the night

But you sold us all to the Silicon freaks

Who bring you this music on an app so sleek

I hope intersection of genius and misanthropy won't last

I yearn for a time when art can be just art

And the performer would vanish after touching the keys

Amadeus Ex Machina, a wind amongst the breeze