Last week I left a note on Starfish's desk.
It said "I love you, signed Anonymous Friend".
Turns out she's smarter than I thought she was,
She knows I wrote it, now the whole class does too.
And I'm alone during "Couple Skate",
When she skates by with some guy on her arm.
But I know that I'll forget the look of pity in her face,
When I'm living in my solar dome on a platform in space!
'Cause it's gonna be the future soon,
And I won't always be this way,
When the things that make me weak and strange get engineered away.
It's gonna be the future soon,
I've never seen it quite so clear,
And when my heart is breaking I can close my eyes and it's already here...
I'll probably be some kind of scientist,
Building inventions in my space lab in space.
I'll end world hunger, I'll make dolphins speak,
Work through the daytime, spend my nights and weekends
Perfecting my warrior robot race.
Building them one laser gun at a time...
I will do my best to teach them,
About life and what it's worth,
I just hope that I can keep them from destroying the Earth!
'Cause it's gonna be the future soon,
And I won't always be this way,
When the things that make me weak and strange get engineered away.
It's gonna be the future soon,
I've never seen it quite so clear,
And when my heart is breaking I can close my eyes and it's already...
Here on Earth they'll wonder,
As I piece by piece replace myself.
And the steel and circuits will make me whole,
But I'll still feel so alone...
Until Starfish calls me home...
I'll see her standing by the monorail,
She'll look the same except for bionic eyes.
She lost the real ones in The Robot Wars.
I'll say "I'm sorry", she'll say "it's not your fault...
Or is it?"
And she eyes me suspiciously,
Hearing the whir of the servos inside.
She will scream and try to run,
But there's nowhere she can hide,
When a crazy cyborg wants to make you his robot bride!
Well it's gonna be the future soon,
And I won't always be this way,
When the things that make me weak and strange get engineered away.
It's gonna be the future soon,
I've never seen it quite so clear,
And when my heart is breaking I can close my eyes and it's already here...
It said "I love you, signed Anonymous Friend".
Turns out she's smarter than I thought she was,
She knows I wrote it, now the whole class does too.
And I'm alone during "Couple Skate",
When she skates by with some guy on her arm.
But I know that I'll forget the look of pity in her face,
When I'm living in my solar dome on a platform in space!
'Cause it's gonna be the future soon,
And I won't always be this way,
When the things that make me weak and strange get engineered away.
It's gonna be the future soon,
I've never seen it quite so clear,
And when my heart is breaking I can close my eyes and it's already here...
I'll probably be some kind of scientist,
Building inventions in my space lab in space.
I'll end world hunger, I'll make dolphins speak,
Work through the daytime, spend my nights and weekends
Perfecting my warrior robot race.
Building them one laser gun at a time...
I will do my best to teach them,
About life and what it's worth,
I just hope that I can keep them from destroying the Earth!
'Cause it's gonna be the future soon,
And I won't always be this way,
When the things that make me weak and strange get engineered away.
It's gonna be the future soon,
I've never seen it quite so clear,
And when my heart is breaking I can close my eyes and it's already...
Here on Earth they'll wonder,
As I piece by piece replace myself.
And the steel and circuits will make me whole,
But I'll still feel so alone...
Until Starfish calls me home...
I'll see her standing by the monorail,
She'll look the same except for bionic eyes.
She lost the real ones in The Robot Wars.
I'll say "I'm sorry", she'll say "it's not your fault...
Or is it?"
And she eyes me suspiciously,
Hearing the whir of the servos inside.
She will scream and try to run,
But there's nowhere she can hide,
When a crazy cyborg wants to make you his robot bride!
Well it's gonna be the future soon,
And I won't always be this way,
When the things that make me weak and strange get engineered away.
It's gonna be the future soon,
I've never seen it quite so clear,
And when my heart is breaking I can close my eyes and it's already here...