Bad Nerd - MC Frontalot

I remember back in the previous millennium

When, um, nerds were sighted, it was «Ready?

Get ‘em!»

You’d hide it if you could, but none of us were able

Maybe congregate together and discuss the label

Maybe form a roundtable of the meek folk

Even chuckle at what we deemed an elite joke:

The elevation of our intellects and our low status

Intersecting in sadness.

It was so bad, it was

Awful, I was there, I remember it

I was present at the founding of the syndicate

A pleasant moment of comradery

When we swore we’d shape the world to how it ought to be

We’d make everything perfect

Tempt the planet with heavenly circuits

Work it till we’re what the world is in need of

Thought there was only good nerds at the meet-up

You don’t need to be bad nerd

Step away from the dark side

You don’t need to be bad nerd

You can muster some pride

You don’t have to be bad

Our conspiracy spread rapidly

None of the cool kids knew what was happening

A-list: Peter Jackson, Sam Raimi

Want your geek satisfactions?

Pay Me

Make it free, then charge them when the bill comes

Yo, internet, where’d you get your skills from?

How’d you hide in every pocket

Every step of the way maintaining an open socket

Worming into their psyches

Giving them weird nerd urges however unlikely

Ever so slightly instilling

Nerd rage into the unwilling?

Bad nerds ascending with no ceiling

Kind of like we always did: the opposite of chilling

Cannot stand a slight, demands a killing

It’s bad for that to be fulfilling

You don’t need to be bad nerd

Step away from the dark side

You don’t need to be bad nerd

You can muster some pride

You don’t have to be bad

Bad nerds, hacking the election and the top ten

Didn’t even stop then

Make ‘em gargle on your hot phlegm

Might even SWAT your friends.

Show your raw contempt

For anyone who isn’t nerd at all

That’s when you lost the plot, you got enthralled

By power for its own sake

Up in my geekery tower, seeking my own break

From fucking getting hassled

Why you got to make nerd mean asshole?

Why you got to make internet cruel?

Turn part of it into a murderous idiot school

Turn the rest of it into paranoia fuel

Wreck the normies, they’re annoying you

But what you’re wrecking is the clique you represent

You don’t need to be bad.

Ain’t too late to repent

You don’t need to be bad nerd

Step away from the dark side

You don’t need to be bad nerd

You can muster some pride

You don’t have to be bad