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This part is love.
This part is worry.
This part would kill a man,
This part is empathy.
Plug in, turn on, and what goes down you'll just have to see

This makes it shy
And this part acts guilty
This part does cruel things
And calls it morality
All hooked up together rather in disharmony

Could save a life, or he could explode
All that he does is in the code
But he cant say why, 'cause he's in the dark, and so are we, believe me

Here it's cool doubt
But this part is naive
One part believes in god
One rages, jealously
Plug in, turn on, and what wins out, just wait and see

There is no brain, no central control
The sum of the parts exceeds the whole
Still get your heart watching it cry like you and me
We never built a soul to speak of
Still he can make you fall in love
He'll swear up and down he feels it all like you and me
But surely that just
Cannot be

And if this were a man
It'd be haunted by memories
A question for every star
To drive itself crazy
It would laugh till it cried
And almost drew your sympathy

But there is no brain, no central control
The sum of the parts exceeds the whole
Still get your heart watching it die like you and me
But We never built a soul to speak of
Still he can make you fall in love
He'll swear up and down he feels it all like you and me
But surely
that just cannot be.

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from The Fascinating Thinking Machine, released March 6, 2014

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Kicklighter Tallahassee, Florida

I'm Everett Young, the founder of Kicklighter.

I'm 48 and picked up guitar 7 years ago, after finishing a PhD in political psychology and not getting the tenure-track academic job I thought I wanted.

My latest album is 2.5 years in the making.

My next step is to pursue composing for the orchestra. When or whether I'll return to pop music, I don't know. Thanks so much for listening!
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