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Talk:Become A Robot

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18-mar-2003
Regarding the lyrics, I always thought it was "harbor a penguin"! Oh no! I'd better give it a closer listen. :) --SR
"These lines are disputable. The liner notes to Then: The Earlier Years claim that the lines in the first bridge are as written here, and that in the second verse the line is "harbor a wishnik." Many fans claim to hear "harbor a deathwish" or "harbor a penguin," but "deathwish" seems the most likely. Others hear "number A/'cause we're gray" in the first bridge rather than what is printed here." -- http://www.tmbg.org/band-info/songs/lyrics/BecomeaRobot.html
I remember hearing somewhere that the Johns printed "harbor a wishnik" in the liner notes of something because they didn't want their parents worrying about the "deathwish" lyric. The weird thing about that is that I don't know of the '85 demo tape having lyrics in the liner notes of any edition, so I don't think the lyrics were printed until 1997. Certainly their parents would have stopped reading their liner notes by then, yes? Maybe not. I wouldn't know. -- Jolene
I always thought it said 'Penguin'. 'Deathwish' certainly makes much more sense... but it still sounds like 'Penguin' to me. --Thaddius 13:05, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
11-jun-2004
Although this song seems pretty silly, I really think it is about losing your job to technology. The "whoops, too late!" could refer to how fast technology changes. The "deathwish" verse could refer to the state of depression that you might fall into after losing your job to a robot. --N8dawg

I don't see the mathematics part of the song.

"Number Eight", maybe. That's more numbers than Math, but we don't have a Numbers cateory. -Ecks

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