Not in this Lifetime

By: Daniel Macks
Original: "Once in a Lifetime" (Talking Heads)

And you may find yourself living 'hind a modem rack.
And you may find yourself in another part of your cube.
And you may find yourself inside the case of a large fileserver.
And you may find yourself with the root password, but no sort of a life.
And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"

Letting the nights go by, drinking coffee 'til I drown.
Letting the bytes go by, cables tangled all around.
Into /dev/null again, after the network's gone.
Once in a lifetime, phone's not making ringing sounds.

And they may ask yourself, 'How do I work this?"
And they may ask yourself, "Where is that any key?"
And you may tell 'em yourself, "This is not a coffee cup stand!"
And you may tell 'em yourself, "This is not a microphone!"

Letting the nights go by, drinking coffee 'til I drown.
Letting the bytes go by, cables tangled all around.
Into /dev/null again, after the network's gone.
Once in a lifetime, phone's not making ringing sounds.

Same as it ever was. Lame as it ever was.
Same as it ever was. Lame as it ever was.
Same as it ever was. Lame as it ever was.
Same as it ever was. Lame as it ever was.

Lusers aren't thinking...and lusers are sinking.
Drown the lusers at the bottom of the ocean.
Poisoned the water at the bottom of the ocean.
Remove the water at the bottom of the ocean!

Letting the nights go by, drinking coffee 'til I drown.
Letting the bytes go by, cables tangled all around.
It doesn't ping again, it's a silent router.
Under my desk again, there is where I cower.

Letting the nights go by, drinking coffee 'til I drown.
Letting the bytes go by, cables tangled all around.
Into /dev/null again, after the network's gone.
Once in a lifetime, phone's not making ringing sounds.

And you may ask yourself, "Where is my beautiful Sparc?"
And you may ask yourself, "Where does that cable go to?"
And you may tell yourself, "I am root. I am strong!"
And you may curse to yourself, "My God!...What have they done?"

Letting the nights go by, drinking coffee 'til I drown.
Why did the system die? Servers crashing all around.
Can't log in again? Now your files're gone?
Just once in my lifetime, could NT not go down?

Letting the nights go by, drinking coffee 'til I drown.
Letting the bytes go by, cables tangled all around.
Into /dev/null again, after the network's gone.
Once in a lifetime, phone's not making ringing sounds.

Same as it ever was. Lame as it ever was.
Same as it ever was. Lame as it ever was.
Same as it ever was. Lame as it ever was.
Same as it ever was. Lame as it ever was.

Last update: 15 March 2007
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