Scout (Part I) (FAWM 2025-13) Words by Joe Ficklin © 2025-02-26Am G E Am Some say the singularity / Will be the end of human kind Am G E Am Sideways shift humanity / To interface with machine mind C D Em Am C G D Em Cyborg bodies, flesh and steel / Conquer all of Earth's extremes G D C Em C D Am And show us if the heart can feel / When wired with synthetic dreams A C D A C G Seal my mind into a jar / Tie me to a starship's frame E C G D C D G To let a million years go by / Give me time enough to dream Am G E Am The early writers saw this guise / And made the mind a subtle weight Am G E Am To carry, download, or revise / And store within electron's fate C D Em Am C G D Em If the mind can tarry thus / And slip into another view G D C Em C D Am Who am I to make a fuss / And wonder where the soul is due REFRAIN Am G E Am Our bodies age and then decay / For youth is fleeting, gone too soon Am G E Am With barely time beneath the day / And longing is a bitter moon C D Em Am C G D Em If there should lie some chance to be / A way to lock death's sting away G D C Em C D Am And trade this flesh for circuitry / What then is the cause to stay? REFRAIN Am G E Am Upon the cusp we mortal stand / Some hope that bridge will cross the sea Am G E Am That frees us from grave's grasping hand / If so, what shall become of we C D Em Am C G D Em Who choose the wild and lonely sky / When life and death are cycles past G D C Em C D Am If some trace of mind can fly / Give me time to soar at last REFRAIN