Kalimat al-Mutafalsif » Songs http://thesnarky.com The Words of the One Who Calls Himself a Philosopher Tue, 26 Oct 2010 22:57:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Tapping on my Keyboard http://thesnarky.com/2007/10/31/tapping-on-my-keyboard/ http://thesnarky.com/2007/10/31/tapping-on-my-keyboard/#comments Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:47:20 +0000 Snarky http://thesnarky.com/2007/10/31/tapping-on-my-keyboard/ Every now and then I'll be taking a shower and some song will come to me. Typically its whatever was playing before I went to bed, or some commercial jingle. Sometimes its actually creative. Had the idea for a Bob Dylan remake the other week, and just now got around to writing the whole thing. Without further ado, 'Tapping on my Keyboard':

Nothing's left for me to do
They say that I'm to be abhorred.
Unless they realize its untrue
I'm stuck here tappin on my keyboard.

Tap-tap-tappin' on my keyboard
Writing down my last request
Tap-tap-tappin' on my keyboard
Til they come for my arrest

Nothing's left for me to say
When people want me in the ward.
Now all my rights have gone away
I'm stuck here tappin on my keyboard.

Tap-tap-tappin' on my keyboard
Writing down my last request
Tap-tap-tappin' on my keyboard
Til they come for my arrest

Meaning
The original song (lyrics found here) was from the movie "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid", and used in the death scene of Slim Pickins. My version is written from the standpoint of a hacker who faces criminal charges thanks to a wonderful society where hackers are assumed evil and never have good motives (not unlike the plight of Christopher Soghoian last fall, in fact his case is what I was thinking of while writing this).

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