I have this song from Carole King’s 1982 “Speeding Time” album on my ITunes, but there is no video online, and the WordPress software will not allow me to embed it as an mp3 audio file in this post. So, best I can do is give you the lyrics and link to a partial audio of the tune at the Amazon site.
The song has been running through my head lately. It’s obviously about a relationship, but it describes a kind of cold, clinical way of viewing the world that one can find in political discussions as well.
“Computer eyes, it hurts to tell you I don’t really want you, but I know if I leave you, it won’t really grieve you, ’cause you really don’t have a soul to haunt you.
Computer eyes, you made me happy for a while, but now I’m going. The coldness that you show me tells me you don’t know me, and that leaves our love so little room for growing.
Don’t want to program making love, I like it real and with feeling, and every time you say you love me, you’re thinking of me, it’s like I kinda get the feeling, that I’m stealing.
Computer eyes, I must have been crazy to ever try you. You see, I’m just a human being and I don’t like what I’m seeing, so you’re gonna have to find another computer eyes to lie to. Yes, you’re gonna have to find another computer eyes to lie to.
Computer eyes, you’re gonna have to learn to cry. Computer eyes, you’re gonna have to learn to cry.”
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