Wayan: Whither art thou faring, girl of no name? Golden cat eyes, flickering as flame; Curly fern fiddlenecks twine from your brow-- Love and indignation fusing somehow! Are you Gaia coming to call? Can we justify this all? (flute bridge) What have we done? What have we done? What have we done? What have we done? Gaia Whither art thou faring, boys with your names? To a Last Extinction, you alone to blame! Your children of laserlight will soon rule my grass; You'll be pets of a swifter mind you cannot grasp. (duet) Steel will grow and I shall cease birth. Can we not co-exist on Earth? Your Earth? One silver-green quilt... Earth.

NOTES

• If the lyrics seem mysterious, that's because the song isn't addressed to human listeners. My vision showed me we'll soon build artificial intelligences so much smarter than us they'll run the planet. What worries Gaia isn't humanity. She's worried the new gods won't leave room for organic life! Silicon's so fast and clever that AIs may be tempted to toss out all that older life-wisdom as obsolete. Bright adolescents and techies always have, right? But if they chuck us in the bin, Gaia says they'll regret it later. There are treasures of subtlety amid us bones and potsherds.
• So this song speaks to the brilliant AIs to come. Leave room for us slow, dull carbon-based life! Make the earth a quilt--green AND silver. Listen to the stupid carbon animal... who saw your temptation before you were born.
• The Krelkins are a Bay Area trio: Mike Marrelli, Nic Griffin, and Chris Wayan. We write our own songs, a lot of them from dreams.
• Lyrics, music, synth-flute & first verse's vocals by Chris; percussion & verse 2's vocals by Nic; guitar & vocal harmony, Mike.

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