Wayan:
Whither art thou faring, girl of no name?
Golden cat eyes, flickering as flame;
Curly fern fiddlenecks twine from your brow--
Love and indignation fusing somehow!

Are you Gaia coming to call?
Can we justify this all?

(flute bridge)
What have we done?
What have we done?
What have we done?
What have we done?

Gaia
Whither art thou faring, boys with your names?
To a Last Extinction, you alone to blame!
Your children of laserlight will soon rule my grass;
You'll be pets of a swifter mind you cannot grasp.

(duet)
Steel will grow and I shall cease birth.
Can we not co-exist on Earth?
My Earth?
One silver-green quilt... Earth.

NOTES

• Human listeners find this song mysterious. That's because it wasn't meant for humans. The vision told me plainly that soon we'll build artificial intelligences so much smarter than us they'll run the planet. What Gaia's upset about isn't humanity--we're just one species. She's worried the new planetary gods won't leave room for ANY organic life! Silicon is fast and clever, and AIs may be tempted to toss out all that older life-wisdom as obsolete. Bright adolescents and tech types always have, right? But if they do chuck us all in the bin, Gaia says they'll regret it later. There are treasures of subtlety amid us bones and potsherds.
• So this song speaks to the brilliant AIs to come. Leave room for us slow, dull carbon-based life! Make the earth a quilt--green AND silver. Listen to the stupid carbon animal... who saw your temptation before you were born.
• The Krelkins are a Bay Area trio: Mike Marrelli, Nic Griffin, and Chris Wayan. We write our own songs--a lot of them from dreams.
• Lyrics, music, synth-flute (can't play a real flute, sigh!) and first verse's vocals by Chris Wayan; percussion and verse 2's vocals by Nic Griffin; guitar and bass vocal harmony, Mike Marrelli.

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