This is the first of the two common time (4/4 or 8/8) songs on this album, the other obviously being Life Lite. The vocoder effects were added with the Mininova synth. HACO’s middle part started out twice as long but was later cut back to eight bars. The demented e-guitar sound there was created with granular effects and a rogue wah-wah pedal.
lyrics
Give us drugs to keep us trying
Stop our minds identifying
Egg or chicken, strike or stricken
Shame won’t stop a lie from flying
Smooth seduction is the mother of abduction
Likes anoint the arbiter of nerd-proof satisfaction
A million friends can bend any trend
Until runaway transaction turns into ruthless suction
Let’s do it right, let’s maximise
Smile, don’t ask, to win the prize
Words are free, just don’t say no
To hot air, cold objects – HACO
Kaiser, König, queen or pope
Guillotine beats telescope
Diversify und Spaß dabei
But don’t hijack hope, sonst kommt die Polizei
Let's go tweak the truth to suit your sweet face
Let's try make the world a much dumber place
There are no hobgoblins, no hobbling and wobbling
Only those on the right side, and those in disgrace
We can almost smell the future
App-gezockt, but always kosher
Groomed and sated, on fleek but exsanguinated
Replicated, der ferngelenkte Wärmetauscher
Jetzt mach das richtig, uns ist das wichtig
Mit grinsen wird doch nur die Norm beschwichtigt
Ein Man, ein Wort – dein Griff ins Klo
Hot air, cold objects – HACO
Watch their destiny darken –
Kannst du abhaken
Ruck-zuck durchstarten
We’re sorry you’re departing
But Fahrenheit says Schluß mit Warten
In his panopticon of house-trained foxes
It’s clear HACO works, the tired doc says
And trapped inside our drafty boxes
Who are we to disagree
Plummet, tackle, crisis, trending
Go treat yourself while we’ll do the bending
Upgrades lactate, floodgates vibrate
Revealed: the truth may need some mending
High time to foil the prying eye
Transcend, transmute, transmogrify
Some worlds have bigger fish to fry
But ethics or Essig, ich nehm’ das jetzt ganz lässig
Let’s do it right, let’s maximise
An honest question will suffice
Trust reaps riches words can sow
But if it’s TGTBT it must be HACO
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