[exclude: pop production, drum kit, electric guitar, strings, synth, melisma, operatic, gospel shout, stadium reverb, female vocals] [intro] (loose acoustic guitar, room ambience, single mic, 4 bars) [verse 1] Tell me, have you ever bit into an apple Felt the juice run down your chin Ever cracked a cold one with a stranger Let a good laugh pull you in Ever had your heart handed back to you In pieces, on a Tuesday night Ever stayed up 'til the bottle's empty Just to get the damn thing right [pre-chorus] Cause they tell me you came down here to replace us Slide right in and take our place But I'm looking at you, trying hard to see it What exactly you erasing [chorus] Replacing friends who only lived inside a screen Well that ain't much of a replace Replacing love you swiped to find on someone's phone Honey, that ain't much of love They say you came to make us all obsolete don't know what they been smokin' But I'll tell you what you're up against, machine Something beautifully broken [verse 2] Replacing unions, strife and Saturday morning With a pay-per-credit deal Replacing whole communities with datacenters Lord, what a steal [E]Human-o-matic, shiny and efficient [A]Forty floors of blinking light [D]Missing every point there ever was to missing [A]Getting everything but right [pre-chorus] Cause they tell me you came down here to replace us Slide right in and take our place ut I'm looking at you, trying hard to see it What exactly you erasing [chorus] Replacing friends who only lived inside a screen Well that ain't much of a replace Replacing love you swiped to find on someone's phone Honey, that ain't much of love They say you came to make us all obsolete don't know what they been smokin' But I'll tell you what you're up against, machine Something beautifully broken [bridge] (choir rises, more open, more space) I don't wanna be a computer Lord knows I've got my flaws But I'll give you this, you iron thing You listen without pause And maybe that's the saddest thing Of everything I've said The smartest conversation left Is happening in my head [outro] (near spoken, choir soft underneath, slowing slightly) I don't want to be a computer But I have to give it to you It's swell to have an intelligent conversation When there's not so much intelligence Left lying around To be replaced
