CELLPHONE
Music by Triflesky, lyrics by Roger Coghill (August 2005)
I am the signal, I am the sound.
You cannot see me but I’m all around,
Yes, I’m your mobile, to help you look flash;
I come from nowhere, to take your cash.
I cause you cancer, I burn your brain.
Over the airwaves your pain’s my gain.
I am the latest, never the least:
But after my signal you’ll need a priest.
Now their tricks are unfurled,
See the risks with their world.
Must you feed the swine pearls
When they kill little girls?
Live your life, live your life, live your life, live your life
Live your life in this world, live your life in this world.
Beyond the mountains, across the valleys
Upto the rainbows, down in the alleys
To all the people, I carry words.
They’re mostly trivial, words for the birds.
I message blind men, and the rejected
I text the winners, and the elected.
My lethal ringtones fly from the masts
Don’t care if I’m killing your lymphoblasts.
You are losing your memory, you can’t get to sleep
You suffer from migraines, collapsed in a heap.
Leukaemia’s rising, disease walks the street
But all they will say is, it’s down to the heat.
Now their tricks are unfurled,
See the risks with their world.
Must you feed the swine pearls
When they kill little girls?
Live your life, live your life, live your life, live your life
Live your life in the world, live your life in this world.
The scientist’s muzzled, and Parliament’s mute,
Repeated denials from men in grey suits.
My airwaves can carry the clearest of diction
To bring you affliction along with addiction.
But nature is brilliant! Don’t we just know it!
We are all changing: our brain cells show it.
Due to exposure most every day,
Airwaves are altering our DNA.
Chorus