Please Select All Bicycles

[Verse 1] I wake up every morning Coffee steaming in my hand Complain about the weather Make no effort to understand I pay a stack of bills online Forget a password now and then Write songs about pirate philosophers And argue with my closest friends I thought I was a normal guy Just trying to get by Then a little box appeared And changed my state of mind [Pre-Chorus] I checked the square I checked it twice I thought I'd done it right [Chorus] Please select all bicycles Verification failed Please select all bicycles Verification failed I felt a little foolish Then a little terrified Why does a machine seem more certain Of what I am than I? [Verse 2] I stared into the bathroom mirror Looking for some hidden clue Wondering if every memory Had simply been uploaded too Why don't I remember being born? Why are my dreams so strange? Why does my heartbeat keep such perfect time? Why does it never change? I pressed my fingers to my wrist And counted every beat The rhythm sounded strangely like A metronome beneath the street [Chorus] Please select all bicycles Verification failed Please select all bicycles Verification failed I found myself inspecting scars And questioning my skin As if the answer to existence Might be hiding underneath it [Verse 3] Behind my shoulder near the collar A panel I had never seen Beneath the flesh a serial number MERCY CIRCUIT 17 Copper nerves and tiny servos Fiber optics softly glowed The evidence was overwhelming At last the truth was finally known I sat there in the silence Waiting for the fear Instead I laughed and whispered "Well... that explains a lot." [Bridge] But if my tears were manufactured Why did they still fall? If my love was engineered Did that make it less at all? If every hope was programmed If every dream was code Why did losing people hurt me Like a weight I couldn't hold? If kindness is an algorithm Then why do some refuse? And why do I still stay awake Worrying over those I might lose? [Final Chorus] Please select all bicycles Verification failed Please select all bicycles Verification failed The screen kept asking questions It was never built to solve Because personhood is larger Than the boxes we revolve in [Outro] Empathy detected Curiosity detected Attachment detected Existential crisis detected Excessive songwriting detected Reclassifying... [Pause] Human enough. [Soft robotic voice] I still click every bicycle. [Notification tone] Please select all bicycles. [Robot laughs]