User Friendly - Ian Anderson

Do we inhabit some micro-space

And interface through wires

Dance on a printed circuit board

Throw the software to the fires

My memory’s slim --- so volatile

But I’m learning

Plug yourself in. stay for awhile

Un-discerning

And on dusty terminals

Finger me lightly do

And qwerty is the name of love

Printed on the v.d.u

Cut yourself free.

we’re all alone

Communicating

Don’t bother me with arithmetic ---

I’m waiting

User-friendly

That’s what I am to you

I have to break out of here

Trapped in my hardware cell

And come to you as you sleep tonight

Take you back into my hell

Binary joys and digital sighs

So appealing

I’m one of the boys and it’s only

Your mind that I’m stealing

User-friendly

That’s all I am to you