Andrew Paul Regan - Checker Charley lyrics

rate me

I bet you’re one of those folks who believe

That I should never have murdered Charley

Murder?

I call it destruction of property

I remember the way that it first came to pass

The machine that they claimed could kick anyone’s ass

That is

Within the confines of a checkerboard

As checker champion of west-Boltonia county

It fell to me to take on the machine

My first taste

Of my built-in obsolescence

Charley, you’re never going to get married

There’ll never be kids who need a reason to look up to you

And you can’t know love

And you can’t know God

And cos you always win

You can never know loss

Because yr just a machine

Just wires and cogs and

Every signal gets processed

But yr soul don’t speak

Once there was ticker tape and parades

Bank holidays held in my name

But now

It’s just me and my cell in the county jail

I wonder, what do we really achieve?

Building the engines of our own defeat

What’s to say

Their next victory won’t be on the battlefield?

Maybe one day in the future we’ll see

Mankind will be merged with machines

If that’s true

What will become of babies?

(itty bitty babies)

Charley, you’re never... etc.