Brettell - Millennium Pie Feat. Julie (Sorry Don Mclean) lyrics
rate meMILLENNIUM PIE <br />
<br />
A long, long time ago...<br />
I can still remember how<br />
Computers used to make me smile.<br />
And I knew <br />
if I had my chance,<br />
That I could make electrons dance,<br />
And maybe I'd be <br />
happy for a while.<br />
But January made me shiver,<br />
it chilled me deep down in my liver,<br />
Bad news I'd collected...<br />
I couldn't get connected.<br />
I can't remember back that day<br />
When I first knew the Y2K<br />
But something touched me anyway,<br />
The day computers died.<br />
<br />
So, ...Bye, bye to the next digit of Pi<br />
Ran my PC on some DC but the voltage was dry<br />
And good ol' boys were <br />
sending e-mail replies<br />
Saying this will be the day I retire<br />
this will be the day I retire<br />
<br />
Can you write in C plus plus?<br />
And do you have faith <br />
in your local bus<br />
If the driver tells you so?<br />
Do you believe in Compaq's goals<br />
Can software save your mortal soul<br />
And can you teach me how to type real slow?<br />
Well I thought that you were prepared<br />
'Cause your memo said you <br />
weren't impaired<br />
Your stationery's swell<br />
But you can go to hell<br />
I was a lonely teenage Unix hack<br />
With an incantation and a modem jack<br />
but I knew <br />
the cat had left the sack<br />
The day computers died<br />
<br />
I started singin'.. <br />
Bye, bye to the next digit of Pi<br />
Ran my PC on some DC but the voltage was dry<br />
And good ol' boys <br />
were sending e-mail replies<br />
Saying this will be the <br />
day I retire this will be the day I retire<br />
<br />
Now for 10 years we've <br />
ignored the threat<br />
And we haven't solved the problem yet<br />
But that's not how it used to be<br />
When the luddites read for the king and queen<br />
with a light they filled with kerosene<br />
And some manuals they stole from you and me<br />
And while Bill Gates was looking pleased<br />
Time stole his monopolies<br />
The courtroom was adjourned<br />
No verdict was returned<br />
While Apple tried a colour scheme<br />
The engineers returned to steam<br />
And we had purges of their dreams<br />
The day computers died We were singin'<br />
<br />
Bye, bye to the next digit of Pi<br />
Ran my PC on some DC but the voltage was dry<br />
And good ol' boys <br />
were sending e-mail replies<br />
Saying this will be the day I retire<br />
this will be the day I retire<br />
<br />
Intel inside in an iron smelter<br />
The food left over from my fallout shelter<br />
Twinkies old and aging fast<br />
I'd rather eat the grass<br />
Q and A tried for a system crash<br />
With the <br />
tester on the sidelines in a cast<br />
Now the timeshare net was running Doom<br />
While mainframes played a marching tune<br />
We all tried to log in<br />
Oh, <br />
but we never could begin<br />
'Cause Cobol tried to take the field,<br />
And Hollerith refused to yield.<br />
Do you recall what was revealed,<br />
The day computers died?<br />
<br />
We started singing<br />
Bye, bye to the next digit of Pi<br />
Ran my PC on some DC but the voltage was dry<br />
And good ol' boys were sending <br />
e-mail replies<br />
Saying this will be the day I retire<br />
this will be the day I retire<br />
<br />
There we were all in a state<br />
A generation- really late<br />
With <br />
no time left to start again<br />
So come on mouse be nimble, mouse be quick<br />
Don't let my spreadsheet data stick<br />
'Cause data is the devil's only friend.<br />
As I watched him on my screen<br />
My hands and face were drenched in steam<br />
No angel born in hell<br />
Could run that stupid shell<br />
And as the ball <br />
climbed high into the night<br />
To call the sacrificial night<br />
I saw Dick Clark <br />
laughing with delight<br />
The day computers died. We were singin'<br />
<br />
Bye, bye to the next digit of Pi<br />
Ran my PC on some DC but the voltage was dry<br />
And good ol' boys <br />
were sending e-mail replies<br />
Saying this will be the day I retire<br />
this will be the day I retire<br />
<br />
I met a girl with a cell phone<br />
And I asked her for a dial tone<br />
But she just smiled and turned away<br />
I went down to the software store<br />
Where I'd seen computers years before<br />
But the man there said the games there wouldn't play<br />
And in the <br />
streets the children screamed<br />
The lovers cried and the poets dreamed<br />
their interface was spoken<br />
The Internet was broken<br />
And the three things I <br />
connect to most<br />
The Website, Lan and the Network host<br />
Every single one was toast<br />
The day computers died They were singin'<br />
<br />
Bye, bye to the next digit of Pi<br />
Ran my PC on some DC but the voltage was dry<br />
And good ol' boys were <br />
sending e-mail replies<br />
Saying this will be the day I retire<br />
this will be the day I retire.<br />
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