GeoCities (You Let Me Be Ugly) S2E3 Bonus Track

Ok, nerds. If you're a consistent listener, you know we've been creating companion songs to the episodes. 

This episode's song is a longing lament to one of the Internet's lost loves - GeoCities. GeoCities was where the ugly world wide web was born. And it's gone. 

So, enjoy a little love lost song about a piece of the Internet We Lost.

Here's the lyrics:

[verse 1]
I built you out of borrowed code
Midnight blue and blinking gold
Every page a little wrong
But you never said I was wrong

[verse 2]
Frames inside of frames inside
Hit counters climbing with my pride
Comic Sans and broken plans
You never laughed, you held my hands

[pre-chorus]
Before the feeds, before the noise
Before the numbers found my voice
Before the crowd became the point

[chorus]
You let me be ugly
You let me be real
Before the world told me
How I should feel
No polish, no promise
No need to explain
You let me be ugly
And I loved you the same

[verse 3]
Neighborhoods along the way
Strangers waving, come and stay
Under construction, always was
But no one asked me what I was

[pre-chorus]
Before the likes, before the reach
Before the metrics learned to teach
Before we sold what we could feel

[chorus]
You let me be ugly
You let me be real
Before the world told me
How I should feel
No polish, no promise
No need to explain
You let me be ugly
And I loved you the same

[bridge]
Then everyone came
And the doors stayed wide
The rooms got louder
Nowhere to hide
You didn’t leave me
You just dissolved
Buried in noise
Nothing resolved

[final chorus]
You let me be ugly
You let me be kind
Before the whole world
Wanted my mind
If I build you again
It won’t look the same
But I miss how you loved me
Before the game

[outro]
Just a dead link now
In archive light
But you felt like home
On a dial-up night

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