theme song: somebody will

[mellowtigger]

Today's theme song comes to us via technoshaman, via Plague Poems, in which the poet writes about being "a pessimistic utopian".

I know we will never reach that place
but still I cling to the idea.

I like the sentiment of the poem, that we strive today so that somebody in the future (and who is not us) can benefit. In that vein, this song captures the idea very well.

http://www.sassafrassmusic.com/songs/sci-fi-fantasy-fandom/somebody-will/

And I want it so much.
Close my eyes, I can taste the Mars dust in the air.
In the darkness the space stations shimmer in orbits that I will not share.

But I’ll teach the student
Who’ll manage the fact’ry
That tempers the steel that makes colonies strong.
And I’ll write the program that runs the computer
That charts out the stars where our rockets belong.
It will never get easy to wake from my dream
When the future I dream of is so far away.
But I am willing to sacrifice
something I don’t have For something I won’t have
but somebody will someday.

And it feels like a waste.
All this working and waiting and battling time,
And all for a kingdom that all of my efforts will never make mine,

Sure, the music quality may not exactly win awards, but the lyrics remind of that time that somebody wrote a great song about life as a code monkey. It's not often that tech reaches poetry.