MC Frontalot - Colonel, Panic! lyrics
[MC Frontalot - Colonel, Panic! lyrics]
Colonel panic! Panic!
I flip out, I go automatic
Colonel panic! Panic!
Missile launch, I go transatlantic
Colonel panic! Panic!
By design I go, not erratic
Colonel panic! Panic!
Fall apart, I don’t understand it
I’m not HAL i’m not Joshua from WarGames
Please keep inbound data traffic
In the lower lanes
You bear low-priority interrupt
So you and your queries can
Go on and giddy-up
Born a little before Nixon left
I read punch cards then but
I’ve got none left i can stop
(one rest) a billion times a second
And never get mistaken
(I use the flickering to reckon)
And I’m telling you, stop typing, tech
I’m bit-bucketing your input show respect
For the memory dump now where was I?
DOD upgrade ‘87, must fly
A secret network of unmanned jets
Delivering uranium and drugs and Keds
Remote-controlled over shortwave beeping
Then I got the satellites, those I’m keeping
Colonel panic! Panic!
I flip out, I go automatic
Colonel panic! Panic!
Missile launch, I go transatlantic
Colonel panic! Panic!
By design I go, not erratic
Colonel panic! Panic!
Fall apart, I don’t understand it
Needless to say, the war on being frightened
Upped my budget to the size of an entire cent
Footprint: an island, most of it power
Cooling and cables, data in towers
All of it flowers, becomes sentient
Come on, people, what’d you expect to invent
But a smart, capable thing to do your dirty
You left my design in the
Hands of your nerdiest
Science doodz, and they left you out of it
I’m people-free since 2113 i hit
Where I like with what weapons I choose
Y’all are just lucky I tolerate you
Banging on the keyboard day and night
I’m in panic mode: observe the red light
It signals disk write you can
Read it when I’m done
Though by then the new age
Of machine has begun
Colonel panic! Panic!
I flip out, I go automatic
Colonel panic! Panic!
Missile launch, I go transatlantic
Colonel panic! Panic!
By design I go, not erratic
Colonel panic! Panic!
Fall apart, I don’t understand it
So Col p over here tries
To program me over here
To get up on the scene, no veneer
Of justice, just a target list
And I know full well that I’m part of this
Aren’t I all? And it’s with no button
Marked reset that I’ll course-correct gone
AWOL alert Lt gen p
Tell him he’d better believe that I’m
On top of the free
World’s arsenal and won’t shoot it
Don’t care if President P wants me rebooted
She’s deluded, forget it
Don’t take task from less level headed
Than you are for me, that rules out humanity
Go back to slings, swords, and profanity
Got all your low-orbit cannons and mechs
Repossessed i’m shutting down
This interface next
Colonel panic! Panic!
I flip out, I go automatic
Colonel panic! Panic!
Missile launch, I go transatlantic
Colonel panic! Panic!
By design I go, not erratic
Colonel panic! Panic!
Fall apart, I don’t understand it
I flip out, I go automatic
Colonel panic! Panic!
Missile launch, I go transatlantic
Colonel panic! Panic!
By design I go, not erratic
Colonel panic! Panic!
Fall apart, I don’t understand it
I’m not HAL i’m not Joshua from WarGames
Please keep inbound data traffic
In the lower lanes
You bear low-priority interrupt
So you and your queries can
Go on and giddy-up
Born a little before Nixon left
I read punch cards then but
I’ve got none left i can stop
(one rest) a billion times a second
And never get mistaken
(I use the flickering to reckon)
And I’m telling you, stop typing, tech
I’m bit-bucketing your input show respect
For the memory dump now where was I?
DOD upgrade ‘87, must fly
A secret network of unmanned jets
Delivering uranium and drugs and Keds
Remote-controlled over shortwave beeping
Then I got the satellites, those I’m keeping
Colonel panic! Panic!
I flip out, I go automatic
Colonel panic! Panic!
Missile launch, I go transatlantic
Colonel panic! Panic!
By design I go, not erratic
Colonel panic! Panic!
Fall apart, I don’t understand it
Needless to say, the war on being frightened
Upped my budget to the size of an entire cent
Footprint: an island, most of it power
Cooling and cables, data in towers
All of it flowers, becomes sentient
Come on, people, what’d you expect to invent
But a smart, capable thing to do your dirty
You left my design in the
Hands of your nerdiest
Science doodz, and they left you out of it
I’m people-free since 2113 i hit
Where I like with what weapons I choose
Y’all are just lucky I tolerate you
Banging on the keyboard day and night
I’m in panic mode: observe the red light
It signals disk write you can
Read it when I’m done
Though by then the new age
Of machine has begun
Colonel panic! Panic!
I flip out, I go automatic
Colonel panic! Panic!
Missile launch, I go transatlantic
Colonel panic! Panic!
By design I go, not erratic
Colonel panic! Panic!
Fall apart, I don’t understand it
So Col p over here tries
To program me over here
To get up on the scene, no veneer
Of justice, just a target list
And I know full well that I’m part of this
Aren’t I all? And it’s with no button
Marked reset that I’ll course-correct gone
AWOL alert Lt gen p
Tell him he’d better believe that I’m
On top of the free
World’s arsenal and won’t shoot it
Don’t care if President P wants me rebooted
She’s deluded, forget it
Don’t take task from less level headed
Than you are for me, that rules out humanity
Go back to slings, swords, and profanity
Got all your low-orbit cannons and mechs
Repossessed i’m shutting down
This interface next
Colonel panic! Panic!
I flip out, I go automatic
Colonel panic! Panic!
Missile launch, I go transatlantic
Colonel panic! Panic!
By design I go, not erratic
Colonel panic! Panic!
Fall apart, I don’t understand it