Software Testing 404
from Teaching a Robot to Love (Original Cast Recording) by The Doubleclicks
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MARSH
I could offer you snack foods, or a flower bouquet.
I could offer things and you’d smile for a day.
But I can’t meet the challenge you want to employ.
I can’t sell you more stuff if your endgame is joy.
Spending and getting isn’t sustainable.
It leads to more wants that are seldom attainable.
But I’ll give you a fix if you glance through my prism—
What you need is the toppling of capitalism.
And you’ll be happy when you’re
Running through the fields
Beneath the blue desert skies,
And off in the distance
The smoke begins to rise,
As the cities are burning
There’s no need to fear,
’Cause you’ve all learned to value
The things that are near.
Take off your clothes
And bathe in a stream,
Go burn down
the American dream.
Joy comes from art
And escaping the con,
And you’re not gonna learn
Till it’s all flipping gone.
I’d love to win this contest, ’cause Mary, I’d love to help you,
But this goes against all I was programmed to do.
You asked me to learn, but I’m lost in the woods—
I can’t ethically sell him material goods.
I can’t make him happy, to be quite explicit,
The trouble’s the system in which he’s complicit.
This man has every last thing inside the mall—
The solution’s societal overhaul.
I could offer you snack foods, or a flower bouquet.
I could offer things and you’d smile for a day.
But I can’t meet the challenge you want to employ.
I can’t sell you more stuff if your endgame is joy.
Spending and getting isn’t sustainable.
It leads to more wants that are seldom attainable.
But I’ll give you a fix if you glance through my prism—
What you need is the toppling of capitalism.
And you’ll be happy when you’re
Running through the fields
Beneath the blue desert skies,
And off in the distance
The smoke begins to rise,
As the cities are burning
There’s no need to fear,
’Cause you’ve all learned to value
The things that are near.
Take off your clothes
And bathe in a stream,
Go burn down
the American dream.
Joy comes from art
And escaping the con,
And you’re not gonna learn
Till it’s all flipping gone.
I’d love to win this contest, ’cause Mary, I’d love to help you,
But this goes against all I was programmed to do.
You asked me to learn, but I’m lost in the woods—
I can’t ethically sell him material goods.
I can’t make him happy, to be quite explicit,
The trouble’s the system in which he’s complicit.
This man has every last thing inside the mall—
The solution’s societal overhaul.
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from Teaching a Robot to Love (Original Cast Recording),
released November 19, 2021
Laser Malena-Webber, The Doubleclicks
Laser Malena-Webber, The Doubleclicks
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The Doubleclicks Portland, Oregon
The Doubleclicks - Laser Malena-Webber and Aubrey Turner, also known as musical duo the Doubleclicks write songs about dinosaurs, cats, anxiety, and queer feelings on the cello and guitar, and welcome you to imagine the name of that genre. Their latest project is a musical, "Teaching a Robot to Love," which is a sci-fi story about the trans experience. ... more
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