On the first day it started to rain
Children were laughing and went out to play
But soon all the streets were rivers and streams
Creatures were trickling in from the deep
Cars floating like ships over skyscraper tips
The tallest of trees swaying like seaweed
Aluminum and paper clips
Refrigerator parts and microchips
Rudimentary robot boy
A heart of rubber bands and broken toys
Just before dusk, afraid he might rust
He climbed aboard an upside-down bus
With bottle-cap eyes he soon realized
Nobody else but he had survived
Sifting through debris of kindred machines
Drifting through a graveyard of sunken cities
Aluminum and paper clips
Refrigerator parts and microchips
Rudimentary robot boy
A heart of rubber bands and broken toys
For many nights with no land in sight
He never was hungry or lonesome or tired
His mechanical brain could not go insane
His metallic skin could never feel pain.
The whales gathered 'round in sibilant sound
They told him about the only way out.
If you want to survive, if you want to shine
Then you've got to find someone of your kind
As they pulled him away across the waste
He saw a pretty face made of tin cans and lace
Aluminum and balloon lips,
Refrigerator parts and cardboard hips
Rudimentary robot girl
A heart of rubber bands and plastic pearls
