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Light Speed (S2E12 Bonus)
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We hope you're enjoying the WarGames is a Documentary 2-parter. If the first part was all about that nostalgic glow of the early 80's hacker aesthetic, then the second part is all about the anxiety that came from mounting technological weaponisation. Faster alerting. Faster decisions. More information. The pressure to keep humans in the loop, but operating at machine-speed. So, the song for the episode channels that choppy, rapid-fire, feeling, and a longing for the Phosphor Glow of the earlier era. Lyrics down below:
[Verse 1]
Twelve tabs and I've lost the thread
Screen so bright it hums
Something pings across the room
My thumb already runs
Glass is warm beneath my hands
Warmer than it should be
Every line arrives at once
None of it can hold me
[Pre-Chorus]
I remember when the signal
Had to travel to arrive
Had to cross the miles of copper
Just to know you were alive
[Chorus]
Light speed
Everything is now
Light speed
Faster than I think it
I can't wait for anything
Nothing waits for me
All that noise inside my head
Running all at light speed
[Verse 2]
Fourteen warnings on the screen
Gotta answer right now
Systems on alert
Red badges flashing
Something tripped a wire somewhere
Half a world away
By the time I've read the first
Three more are on their way
[Pre-Chorus]
I remember when the cursor
Used to blink and hold its ground
When the space between the words
Was where the meaning could be found
[Bridge]
Close the screen
Let the room go dark
Sit here long enough
To feel the smallest spark
A dial tone waiting
A handshake on the line
A cursor blinking patient
One green letter at a time
[Final Chorus]
Light speed
Everything is now
Light speed
Faster than I think it
I can't wait for anything
Nothing waits for me
Somewhere past the brightness
There's a glow I can't feel
[Outro]
Light speed
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Twelve tabs and I lost the thread. Screen so bright. Something pings across the room. My thumb already runs. Glass is warm beneath my hands. Warmer than it should be. Every line arrives at once. None of it can hold me. I remember when the signal had to travel to right. Head to cross the mouths of copper. Just to know you were alive light speed. Everything is now light speed. Faster than I think it can't wait for anything. Nothing waits for me. All that noise inside my head running all at light speed. Fourteen warnings on the screen. Gotta answer right now. Systems on alert, red badges flash. So then two eyes, somewhere half a world away. By the time I read the first, three more are on their way. I remember when the cursor used to blink and hold its grind when the space between the words was where the meaning could be found. Close the screen. Let the room go dark. Sit here long enough to feel the smallest spark. A doubt home waiting. A handshake on the land A cursor, blinking patience. One green letter at a time, light speed. Everything is now light speed. Faster than I think it. I can't wait for anything. Nothing waits for me. Somewhere past the brightness, there's a glow I can't feel. Light speed.
