Steve Taylor - Am I in Sync? lyrics

Steve: I don't know, Woody. Are you sure you've got this thing hooked up right? Woody: Listen man, music is my life Steve: All right. Two, three, four [sequencer starts, but gradually goes out of sync] Steve: Hey! What are you doing? What's goin' on? Woody: Sorry Synthesizer rock ruled Jessica's feet As a slave to that ubiquitous beat Visions of the big screen danced in her head 'In a matter of time', she said Jessie never got her Hollywood role And the pogo nights have taken their toll She can do the monkey off o' the cuff But her mind has a missing link ... CHORUS: Am I in sync? Paint a picture on a subway train Carve my name in a video game Am I in sync? Out looking for the camera crews Sell my soul for a second on the evening news Am I in sync? Live 'til the bubble pops Hold my breath when the big one drops Am I in sync? Immortality is what I'm buying But I'd rather be immortal by not dying Laboratory rats made Roger a fink And the laws of science drove him to drink Working for the taste of public acclaim And a cure that bore his name Nobel Prizes would have been nice But he lost his mind to renegade mice Roger traded dreams of 'Man of the Year' For an understanding shrink ... (CHORUS) Steve: All right. Let's try it again [sequencer starts, stops, restarts out of sync] Steve: Woody, what are you doin'? You told me you knew how to use this thing Woody: Sorry (CHORUS) Steve: All right. Get it right this time. Three, four [sequencer starts yet again, seemingly remaining in sync] Steve: Yeah! Now that wasn't so hard, was it? [sequencer inevitably goes out of sync yet again] Steve: Woody, what's goin' on? Woody: Sorry. Look, it's this machine, uh. You can fix it in the mix Steve: Listen, I kinda like it. Have you ever heard of, uh, poly-rhythms? Steve: I hear Bowie's gonna do this on his next album Woody: What a relief