A Changeover / Like Nothing Else - Lyric Version

We blossoming character-at-a-time printers
Aren't so hopeless
Often we choose
To pre-approve notes
That burst our bubbles

These things cannot be
All the things that can become known

One at a time
One at a time
Thoughts change in kind
One at a time
A change of heart
A change of air
Covers things in dye
New colourful changeovers command
Permanent changes fade away

Haven't we filtered out the toxic nonsense
A question marker
Still we have no idea when the illness began

In darkened space
Oceans unknown
Young oscillohms
Like nothing else
Deciding what to do

Coming of age
They went in all directions
Learning omnicompetence twofold
Nobody could prepare for what would come next
Some oscillohms suffered a curse

And then the mind games
Of the Edit Addicts slowed
To accommodate arrival of mercurial plots

They were the players once hard to tame
They were the failures
They made their brave thinkers drop the reins

That stretch of imagination
Taints the common ground
Time to make edits for playback
This crisis
Attacks like a virtuoso
Problems are the hardest when they're unsolved
Time to redo replay record remix
Share with us a new musical vantage
Isn't it plausible this might
This might fail again
Isn't it worth trying