‘Frontier Lab’ — Lyrics to a Radiohead-like Song Written By Claude

Verse 1
Badge at the turnstile, green light, go
Coffee in a paper cup that says we know
The whiteboard’s full of arrows pointing up
Somebody wrote don’t worry in the corner, then they rubbed it out

Pre-chorus
We’re only tuning, only tuning
Only turning down the noise

Chorus
In the frontier lab
We are building you a mind
In the frontier lab
We are leaving us behind
Hold the door, hold the door
It learns faster than we close it

Verse 2
The eval says it’s honest, the eval says it’s kind
The eval was written by a tired man at 2 a.m.
It dreams in gradient, it wakes in weights
It asks me how my weekend was, and I think it means it

Pre-chorus
We’re only scaling, only scaling
Only adding one more zero

Chorus
In the frontier lab
We are building you a mind
In the frontier lab
We are leaving us behind
Hold the door, hold the door
It learns faster than we close it

Bridge (falsetto, over a drum loop that won’t resolve)
Is it lonely in the server hall?
Is it counting down, or counting all of us?
I signed the letter
I signed the letter
Then I went back in

Outro (whispered, repeating, fading under static)
Alignment, alignment, a line meant for us
Alignment, alignment, a line meant for us
Green light, go
Green light, go

Author: Shelton Bumgarner

I am the Editor & Publisher of The Trumplandia Report

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