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