Backward Century

I used to want to get a-
Away somewhere
I used to live in a backward century
I wish it was the future
I wouldn't care
About the fearsome effects of entropy

I look around and see only what's obsolete
The early versions of things in redesign
Two Stanford students with lap-tops on Alma Street
Are coming up with the world I want for mine
Like Frankenstein

My brain will be fed nice thoughts, and I won't care
What goes on outside my ten foot bio-cube
They'll hook me up all day in a dentist's chair
Machines will suck out the drool with vacuum tubes

I used to want it to do something bad to you
As if it was going to show you decency
I surely thought it would shake out what wasn't true
Nothing would shake but beliefs and the leaves on the trees

The universal sign for do not disturb
The universal sign for do not disturb
The universal sign for take your trouble outside onto the curb

I used to want to get a-
Away somewhere
I used to live in a backward century
I wish it was the future
I wouldn't care
About the fearsome effects of entropy

I used to want it to do something bad to you
As if it was going to show you decency
I surely thought it would shake out what wasn't true
And nothing shakes but beliefs and leaves on the trees

Backward we're going backward we're going
Backward we're going backward we're going
Bye