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Talkin’ Information Blues

There’s a plague going ‘round in the world today called the Instant Information Age.
With cellular phones and cyber space I hardly even recognize the place
but I bet I can find out everything I wanna’ know about it.
Now they found a cure for the TV set, it’s a little machine called the Internet.
It’s got a little window where windows pop up so I sat down to take a look and started talking to it?
Yeah, it’s got everything from the latest fads to William Blake poems and personal ads.
When I think of all the culture that I could have seen if I only signed off the instant message screen
but it’s the new cigarette, and it probably causes brain cancer.
Now let me tell ya’ all how each day ends I surf myself to see my friends.
People post comments and they all feel cool and the boys and girls all think they’re beautiful.
It feeds your ego and your libido and everywhere we go somebody says they know somebody who knows ‘ya.
Come to myspace and twitter my yahoo and I’ll google all over your Facebook
Have ‘ya heard about the girl I’ve been talkin’ to her screen name’s RoxyIheartU!
She sent me some pictures and swears she’s eighteen I’d like to believe her (if ya’ know what I mean)

but there must be something in the water.
We arranged to meet on the street one day but I couldn’t think of a thing to say
All that came out was LOL and BRB and TTYL

Turns out she wasn’t old enough to have any real vocabulary anyway so then I was MIA.
If ‘ya wanna know something that’s kinda scary we're raising a nation full of secretaries
who sit around all day and type so fast they hardly realize time has passed.
Next thing ya’ know you’re 25 years old and can enter 250 words a minute with one finger.
Yeah, it’s gonna’ take more than Ritalin to save my fried attention span.
When I think about how times will change and we'll all have computer chips in our brains
makes you wonder, “What’s the point of being human anymore?”
It’s got immediate access to TV shows, ring tones, photos, and song downloads.
But, when it comes to living I can’t relate, or walk, or talk, or think, or wait.
I’ll just sit here and keep checking for that e-mail or that eBay purchase…evolving.
Now everybody’s pocket’s full with their very own portable oracle.
And I can’t believe it’s come to this, the whole things kinda ridiculous
‘cause we never ask it any questions.
We all just wait around to give it another answer.
Now some of the people might be online part of the time,
and part of the people might be online some of the time.
But one day ALL of the people are gonna’ be online ALL of the time.
Rupert Murdock said that.
"You can be in my screen if I can be in your screen".
I said that.