omg i really hate the opening line where i suggest that other people don't have it so bad. like, i don't even know where to start on how fucked-upedly presumptive and preposterous that is. I've included the lyrics that it SHOULD'VE been. This new line is just accusatory of robophobia which is much more reasonable :P because all of us are robophobic to some extent, even us in the attackbots. It's just a product of growing up in this deeply robophobic culture.
Luceoid/Lucy Attackbot
lyrics
So you don't think you don't make it bad?
Well, ha, I think you've been had.
Don't mean to get you sad,
but this bullshit gets us mad.
Robophobia. It's everywhere.
Everywhere.
So here I am, walking down the street.
If I don't look human, I'm scared I'll get beat up.
At the very least shouted at.
Just for being visibly a robot.
Now I'm with my friends, going for something to eat.
But the restaurant ain't somewhere we can meet.
People berate me and I get booed,
Coz robots have no--
They've got no need for food!
Coz the humans,
they tell us to look like thems,
that'll stop the discriminations,
but its denying who i am.
Should we pretend,
To be human if in the end,
We get less hate but have to bend,
Who we are til we don't recognise ourselves?
Oh woah, etc.
Oh whyyyy, etc.
I'm angry but what can I do with this anger?
I just applied for a job but there's a far too real danger,
I won't get it coz of what I am.
I can't prove it but it will happen.
I'm scared you'll trip me up when I walk down the street
And my self-righting mechanism will overheat.
It doesn't matter if it hardly ever happens,
I know it can and that is what frightens, me.
When i had a job i couldn't choose my colleagues.
Some were okay but some were robophobics,
I wanted to hide but you can't choose everyone
You know in life, it was not fun.
One more thing when you insult someone,
Saying they have a cold heart do you stop to won-
-der if it hurts me to have something I physically have,
Used as an insult, please just do the math.
I wish this could be a positive song.
But the world is so stuck and the world is so wrong.
What we fucking need is representation,
In the media but instead we get shunned!
Robots actors are snubbed for robot roles,
And these roles are stereotypes written by assholes.
Robots want to be human or are killing machines.
Yeah what people think of us are just those two things.
I just wanna let you know the shit that goes down.
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