The next song in min-series of brain theme is this prophetic number by the Cleveland, Ohio singer from her 2002 album Let It Rain, highlighting the effect technology has on our most precious and complex organ. Chapman, who shot to fame with her 1988 debut album with song such as Fast Car, has continued to record songs of focused sensitivity, and her intimate, clear voice is quietly attention-grabbing. In an age of increased data gathering and marketing algorithms merging with human activity towards an inevitably singularity, it’s increasingly prescient, the opening and closing phrase, “your wants, desires, needs and wishes will be duly noted”, resonating with a subtle, but unstoppably hard-wired irony.
Your wants, desires
Needs and wishes
Will be duly noted
Processed filed and catalogued
Labeled and encoded
Turned into sitcom dialog
And advertising slogans
We've got a box to put in your brain
Hard wired for downloading
All the secrets and the mysteries
You've been selfishly withholding
The dreams and hopes
That once were yours
Will now be collected and dispersed
So the first to come with cash to spend
Will be the first one served
We've got a box to put in your brain
Hard wired for downloading
All the secrets and the mysteries
You've been selfishly withholding
Make you think you like to be watched
Displayed on the auction block
Invaded in your own home
Stripped naked on the television
Humiliated in front of millions
We've got a box to put in your brain
Hard wired for downloading
All the secrets and the mysteries
You've been selfishly withholding
We've got a box to put in your brain
We've got a box to put in your brain
We've got a box to put in your brain
We've got a box to put in your brain
Your wants, desires
Needs and wishes
Will be duly noted.
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