The Rebel Black Dot Song of the Day
The Phenomenauts, "I Am Not Robot" from the Electric Sheep E.P. (T.L.A.M.)
Commentary: In the mid-1970s, Leonard Nimoy published an autobiography titled I Am Not Spock. Twenty years & six Star Trek feature films later, he published a second autobiography, titled I Am Spock. The Phenomenauts have turned that script on its head, releasing "I Am Not Robot" several years after "I Am Robot."
"When I sleep, will I dream of electric sheep?
When I sleep, will I even dream at all?
Instead I wake up wishing I could take myself apart
And scatter all the pieces on the floor…
"When I bleed, do I bleed electricity?
On darkened streets I don't need to fear at all.
One day I'll trade this (unintelligible) for a brand-new, beating heart,
When I am not a robot anymore.
"My story's awfully trite,
It's one that everybody knows,
Everybody knows,
But I'll scream with all my might
So everybody knows,
Everybody knows,
The singularity of me…"
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