Singularity
The Lisps Lyrics

I'll live to see a million things that men were never meant to see;
My senses and my faculties I'll augment with machinery—
Auditory, optical, touch and taste, olfactory—
Converting into data streams and floating bits of binary.

Every piece of food you taste and every thought you cogitate,
Every sound that you can hear, and sight you see for years and years,
All stored up so conveniently on petabytes of memory
So you can always reference them in case you forget anything.
Singularity, singularity;
Singularity, singularity-oh, I don't know.
Singularity, singularity;
Singularity, singularity-oh, I don't know.

Now once all that experience can fit into an easy grid
Existence is no longer a thing mentally projected;
The wires that you have inside are very easily realized.
Through artificial imaging, you duplicate ten at a time.

Your consciousness can be enjoyed by anyone forevermore
And you live in whatever state that you or anyone creates;
You could be a giant squirrel, a statue, or a talking cat,
The Goodyear blimp, an Etch-A-Sketch, an octopus, or a brain in a vat.
You keep all the memories and feelings that you ever want
And now you can commence your life as an uploading extropian.

Singularity, singularity;
Singularity, singularity-oh, I don't know.
Singularity, singularity;
Singularity, singularity-oh, I don't know.

My mother is so horrified by this post-human fantasy;
She says we'd lose that special thing that makes us human beings be.
But I don't know, i'm not so sure if humans are so good and pure;
Perhaps we'd be much better off if we took these violent bodies off.

Once everyone is in the cloud, we'll move beyond this earthly ground,
Expanding into outer space as an informational signal race.
Matter in the solar system converts into computing mass
and the sun becomes the central orb of a brain that grows into the vast
expanse of space and emptiness for light years and light centuries
that replicates exponentially like a Russian Doll in a cosmic dream.

Once every spot of the universe is filled up it will probably burst
Eradicating finally the experiment that we grew from Earth.
As it explodes, the brain will breathe into the dark impossibly
And antimatter all around will collapse the universe back down
And right away what you would see if you were a fly in the vacancy
Is all the light and color in the universe is collapsing
And time would stop.

And from a tiny pinhole point, a massive bang will erupt in space
And trillions of your particles fly away at a photonic pace.

And once again the clock would start to tick and tock and tick and tock,
Years would pass, billions or more before the tiny proteins lock;
And yet again in the boiling seas of a miniscule blue anomoly
A planet floating helplessly around a tiny ball so fiery
An unextraodinary corner of the universe, would cradle it—
The flicker of intelligence that led us here and brought us this!

Singularity, singularity;
Singularity, singularity-oh, I don't know.
Singularity, singularity;
Singularity, singularity-oh, I don't know.

Singularity, singularity;
Singularity, singularity-oh, I don't know.
Singularity, singularity;
Singularity, singularity-oh, I don't know.

Oh, I don't know; oh, I don't know.
Oh, I don't know; oh, I don't know.

Contributed by Kaelyn I. Suggest a correction in the comments below.