Dual Core - For Aaron lyrics
[Dual Core - For Aaron lyrics]
When I was sixteen, I knew I'd go to jail
Cause, I wrote my first program
For hacking into mail
Didn't even use it, no amount of malice
I was learning how to code
It was all about the challenge
Up until that point
I was trying to find a balance
Parents fully hoping I'd been
Chosen for a talent
Life feeling blurry, but no one ever noticed
I was always wide-eyed but
Couldn't ever focus
And it was at that moment
Awoken to this dream
Face all aglow with my code up on the screen
In the same vein ashamed that
This was all illegal
Just the letter of the law
Cause my spirit wasn't evil
Things sharpened up, at last I had my vision
But, IT security wasn't even a position
Blind to decision, I didn't have a say
Finally find what I'm given
I can't let it get away
If I weren't a hacker, I would feel afraid
From the way that the media
Has put them on display
Regardless of the matter
That's what people say
But wait I am a hacker, sorta feel betrayed
Yeah an aloof kid, always said my two bit's
Living for this learning from the
Joy and the amusement security's a mindset
And though it's been eluded
We like to find a problem
Solve it and improve it
The only part that's foolish
Is the asymmetric recourse
Like put ourselves through enormous fights
And got a divorce
(Let it go) and now we're out here drowning
Desperately reaching just to pull
Ourselves out and
Defenseless, feeling marked and being counted
We're just tinkerers, makers
Outnumbered and surrounded
I can't speak for everyone
But feel it's safe to say
That never should a researcher be
Treated in this way
2010, the beginning of the end
I can feel my heart drop
Don't let it go again
From the hand that was dealt
You’ve gotta play your cards
How far would you take it?
Don’t take it too hard on January 11th, 2013
We lost one of the brightest minds
That ever dared to dream
To be honest, I'm so angered and disturbed
Victim of a system
But you lived by your word
Betrayed by an act whose billings
Really aren't that clear
And gets more outdated as we age another year
The world lost a man who defended open speech
Then suffered at the hands
Of prosecution overreach
Before we lose another
There’s time to stop the bleeding
Please, can we finally get the
Changes we've been needing
So many questions caused the
Statement we’re declaring
We had to tell the world
This one is for Aaron
Cause, I wrote my first program
For hacking into mail
Didn't even use it, no amount of malice
I was learning how to code
It was all about the challenge
Up until that point
I was trying to find a balance
Parents fully hoping I'd been
Chosen for a talent
Life feeling blurry, but no one ever noticed
I was always wide-eyed but
Couldn't ever focus
And it was at that moment
Awoken to this dream
Face all aglow with my code up on the screen
In the same vein ashamed that
This was all illegal
Just the letter of the law
Cause my spirit wasn't evil
Things sharpened up, at last I had my vision
But, IT security wasn't even a position
Blind to decision, I didn't have a say
Finally find what I'm given
I can't let it get away
If I weren't a hacker, I would feel afraid
From the way that the media
Has put them on display
Regardless of the matter
That's what people say
But wait I am a hacker, sorta feel betrayed
Yeah an aloof kid, always said my two bit's
Living for this learning from the
Joy and the amusement security's a mindset
And though it's been eluded
We like to find a problem
Solve it and improve it
The only part that's foolish
Is the asymmetric recourse
Like put ourselves through enormous fights
And got a divorce
(Let it go) and now we're out here drowning
Desperately reaching just to pull
Ourselves out and
Defenseless, feeling marked and being counted
We're just tinkerers, makers
Outnumbered and surrounded
I can't speak for everyone
But feel it's safe to say
That never should a researcher be
Treated in this way
2010, the beginning of the end
I can feel my heart drop
Don't let it go again
From the hand that was dealt
You’ve gotta play your cards
How far would you take it?
Don’t take it too hard on January 11th, 2013
We lost one of the brightest minds
That ever dared to dream
To be honest, I'm so angered and disturbed
Victim of a system
But you lived by your word
Betrayed by an act whose billings
Really aren't that clear
And gets more outdated as we age another year
The world lost a man who defended open speech
Then suffered at the hands
Of prosecution overreach
Before we lose another
There’s time to stop the bleeding
Please, can we finally get the
Changes we've been needing
So many questions caused the
Statement we’re declaring
We had to tell the world
This one is for Aaron