Workarounds

[Verse 1] I am an awful cook, a hazard by the stove But I can doctor frozen pizza like a treasure trove I have the short-term memory of a fleeting spark But my calendar alerts are marching through the dark [Chorus] Oh, the system keeps me standing when the foundation breaks We build a digital bridge over all our mistakes We don’t know the answers, just the places they hide With a workaround waiting on the other side [Verse 2] I’m a terrible artist, can't draw a straight line But I can find the perfect GIF to show I'm doing fine I can't write a professional email without a robotic tone But I'm a visionary director prompting on my phone [Chorus] Oh, the system keeps me standing when the foundation breaks We build a digital bridge over all our mistakes We don’t know the answers, just the places they hide With a workaround waiting on the other side [Verse 3] I have zero spatial awareness, lost in the street But I can follow a blue dot right down to my feet I don't actually know how the complex math is done But I can build a spreadsheet to calculate the sun [Chorus] Oh, the system keeps me standing when the foundation breaks We build a digital bridge over all our mistakes We don’t know the answers, just the places they hide With a workaround waiting on the other side [Bridge] [Tempo slows slightly, sparse arrangement] I don't know a word of Japanese, my accent is bad But Google Translate's open in another tab And I don't know how to live right now, or stay in the zone But my cloud storage archives the joy that I've known [Build up] No, I'm not much good at writing lyrics, I don’t have the craft But I can prompt an LLM to write a first draft [Chorus] [Full instrumentation, uplifting] Oh, the system keeps me standing when the foundation breaks We build a digital bridge over all our mistakes We don’t know the answers, just the places they hide With a workaround waiting on the other side [Outro] Just the places they hide... A chatbot whisperer, late in the night... [Fade out on a lo-fi synth chord]