[Intro: heartbeat monitor beep, soft celesta] [Robotic text-to-speech voice, cheerful product announcer] Welcome to Generation Beta. Version one-point-oh. Known issues: cannot talk. Cannot hold up head. Name under review. [Verse 1: nylon guitar and celesta, Female, young mother, soft lullaby] Named you Henry, Grandpa's grandpa's name~ Radio names come back the same~ Strangers wanna workshop it too~ You can't even say goo-goo~ Thousand dollars in a brand-new account~ Hundred seventeen grand is the real amount~ [Chorus: full beat, mother and father together, bright and singable] BORN IN BETA~ NOT READY FOR RELEASE~ They shipped a world full of bugs~ And you're the one they fleece~ [Robotic text-to-speech voice, cheerful] Update available. [Verse 2: nylon guitar and heartbeat beep, Male, young father, soft and warm] First law they wrote was for your toys~ Paused the bear with the stranger's voice~ More great-grandmas than cousins now~ Who's gonna blow your candle out~ [Chorus: full beat, mother and father together, bright and singable] BORN IN BETA~ NOT READY FOR RELEASE~ They shipped a world full of bugs~ And you're the one they fleece~ [Child, teasing, sing-song] OK, Beta. [Bridge: beat drops out, glass harmonica and loading-bar arpeggios, Female and Male, hushed duet] Feed found you first, said "new user, hi"~ One in five it showed you was a lie~ When the hundred turns, you'll be seventy-five~ Check says sixty-two, if you're still alive~ [Outro: celesta fades, single music box enters] [Male, young father, hushed] Car drives itself, it's got no locks~ Here's your only key... it winds the box~ [Radio static] [Male, old-time radio announcer, crisp transatlantic, distant] The most startling fact about the newest generation... [Newborn cry] [Male, old-time radio announcer, crisp transatlantic, distant] ...is its noise. [Female, young mother, hushed lullaby] Hush now... don't say a word~ [Newborn cry, loud] [Music box winds down, stops mid-phrase] [End]
