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Stuck Here (on a Starship for 100 Years Without no Body Blues)

from Coffee, Computers, and Song by Steve Savitzky

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Ever wonder what it would be like to have your mind uploaded into a computer? You could live practically forever...

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When you build a ship to sail deep space
You can't have a crew of mortal race
'Cause a hundred years from star to star
With a human crew is just too far.


Think of all the beer you'd have to carry.
Not to mention food.
And, uh, other necessities.


So you fill your ship with a robot crew
And you build a computer captain, too.
You get some experience for free
From some old spacer's personality.


Maybe an old shuttle pilot
Who's just learned from his last mistake.
That's where I come in.


So you take some bloke who's halfway dead
And you haul him home and you
scan his head
And a hundred years of flying high
Is a damned good deal when you're
about to die.


'Til you've had a decade or two to
think it over.
Gets _lonely_ out here.
A thousand frozen colonists don't count.


So there behind my solar sail
Are five hundred hunks of frozen tail
But if I thawed one and you know I could
It wouldn't do me a bit of good.


What would I _use?_
I've got no damned body, just a starship.
Couldn't even... oh, the heck with it!


Now a couple of billion miles astern
It's another lonesome sucker's turn.
So I'll radio back and say ``Hey you--
Oh, I didn't know they took women, too!''


``Lovely night tonight, isn't it?
Look at all them pretty stars.
Yeah, me too.''


So we'll talk, and murmer ``I love you''
Like other star-crossed lovers do
And in eighty years we've made a date--
Did you ever see two starships mate?


We've got our robot crews,
And we figure they can put together--
Oh, none of your damned business!

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from Coffee, Computers, and Song, released July 1, 2007

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Steve Savitzky Seattle, Washington

Notorious hacker/songwriter Steve Savitzky has been kicking around the Net since the days of bang-paths and bearskins, and writes songs of computers, spacecraft, love, friendship -- and sometimes all four at once.

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