Replaced by a Robot Lyrics

All signs point to humans in the workforce

Becoming out-of-date

As computers gear up

To secure that fate

I'm the one on the front line

Being pushed to the outer aisle

All in the name of progress

Twenty first century style

Had me civil rights; considerations

For my concerns and pains

But that robot's got no union

Got no time-clock, won't complain

How do I tell my family

That I'm now obsolete

Been replaced by a robot

And pushed out to the street

This is nothing like science fiction

More like a horror show

As it comes in here to supersede

Everything I do and know

It walks, it talks, it rolls on wheels

And does my work like it's all free

No chip to feel remorse

For what it's doing to me

Little LEDs where it's eyes might be

No emotion as it stands

Ready and waiting for input

Prepared for its next commands

In disbelief I stare back at its

Mechanical hands and feet

Been replaced by a robot

And pushed out to the street

I can't compete with this contraption

It's just so cunningly cold

It's parts can easily be replaced

And me? I just grow old

While that robot's polished metal

Plastic and glass just seems to shine

My skin and bones, flesh and blood

No match for mechanical mind

How long before A.I. catches up to exceed

Human intellectual capacity

To reach singularity

Doesn't matter for me

I'm already out

Already obsolete

I been replaced by a robot

And pushed out to the street