[INTRO - CLOSE, SPOKEN] Before the mind before the machine before the screen there was sand Not thinking Not remembering Not keeping time Just Silla-CON resting in the Earth [VERSE 1 - PURIFICATION] Take the ordinary and ask it to become pure Heat it melt it draw it upward slowly from the fire A crystal lattice grows atom next to atom arranged in its structured order Pull the cylinder from the furnace stable silver-gray Slice it thin thin and thinner thinner until the stone reveals a beautiful mirror Polish away every inconsistency every indentation every Flaw because at this scale a speck of dust is a Natural Disaster and this surface comMANDS perFECTION [PRE-CHORUS] Sand into Silla-CON Silla-CON into crystal crystal into circles waiting for the PHO-TAHN [CHORUS] This is how chips are born Fire light matter time Trillions of iterations where there once was only stone Cloze open no no One one zero zero [VERSE 2 - PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY] Coat the mirror with liquid sensitive to light Spin it faster three thousand five thousand seven thousand revolutions per minute until a smooth glistening Skin evens across the wafer event horizon Then a mask a pattern a flash Light falls through Geometry and leaves behind the ghost of a circuit universes no eye can see expand the imagination drawn again and again and again [REFRAIN - RHYTHMIC] Expose develop etch repeat Expose develop etch repeat Light writes the map Reaction clears the path Expose develop etch repeat [VERSE 3 - DOPING] Now remove what does not belong strip the temporary coat Then add tiny impurities not mistakes ionic instructions Positive Negative PEE-type ENN-type Source Gate Drain Give the electrons something to do and somewhere to Go A gate clozes a gate opens no current no current one one one one [BUILD] One transistor becomes tens becomes hundreds becomes thousands becomes millions becomes billions becomes trillions Trillions of iterations deciding deciding deciding Trillions of iterations inna blink [CHORUS - LARGER] This is how chips are born Fire light matter time Trillions of iterations where there once was only stone Cloze open cloze open No yes yes no [BRIDGE - METALLIZATION / CONNECTION] But a city is nothing if its streets never meet So lay down metal layer over layer bridge over bridge connect the gates connect the memory to hold a thought connect one microscopic neighborhood to the next a labyrinth of conduction carrying lightning through a landscape Seal it Protect it Test it a shining disc holding worlds within worlds Then cut [BREAK - SOUND DROPS AWAY] One wafer geometric multiplies One crystal yields Trillions of iterations [VERSE 4 - PACKAGING] Give each one a body bond its tiny contacts to larger hands circuit paths reaching outward Wrap it seal it test it again What rested in the Earth is now ready to SING! [FINAL CHORUS - EXPANSIVE] This is how chips are born! Fire light matter time Trillions of iterations where there once was only stone Cloze open cloze cloze Zero one zero one Physics and chemistry layered into computation generates intelligence Not alive but calculating not conscious but transforming Trillions of iterations Impact the entire world [REFLECTION - FULLY SUNG, EXPANSIVE] And now the photograph the video the heartbeat monitor the spacecraft the telescope the Cool Guide the Song messages spread around the planet answers to our questions in a Flash And somewhere beneath it all Trillions of iterations! [OUTRO - RETURN TO BEGINNING, CLOSE SPOKEN] From an ancient element Silla-CON An abundant little piece of Earth we taught to Count
