Nur Ein XIX Round Two "Factory Reset"

[Spintown]

Spintown & Company

Here's the music video for the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ms9Ed5wnZk

(Verse 1)
Life on the farm is oh so swell,
Working with my hands under the sky,
Selling my eggs to pay the bills,
I'm not rich but it gets me by,

(Chorus)
Cluck cluck cluckity cluck,
I here them sing all day,
Cluck cluck cluckity cluck,
We cluck our cares away,

(Verse 2)
Until my blast furnace went out,
My horse came up lame the next day,
And the bank rejected my loan,
I need ems now without delay,

(Chorus)
Cluck cluck cluckity cluck,
I here them sing all day,
Cluck cluck cluckity cluck,
We cluck our cares away,

(Verse 3)
I need to maximize my time,
To streamline the gathering process,
A complete redesign of the farm,
I need more space, but they'll get less,

(Chorus)
Cluck cluck cluckity cluck,
I here them sing all day,
Cluck cluck cluckity cluck,
We cluck our cares away,

(Verse 4)
Misery now sits in the air,
But ems flow with my cruel design,
Small cages with no room to move,
The dank gray walls with no sunshine,

(Chorus)
Fuck fuck fuckity fuck,
They won't sing from their crates,
Fuck fuck fuckity fuck,
Their eyes are filled with hate,

(Bridge)
What have I done,
Work used to be fun,
I go through motions,
Blocking my emotions,
I'd rather be in debt,
Time for a factory reset,

(Chorus)
Cluck cluck cluckity cluck,
I here them sing all day,
Cluck cluck cluckity cluck,
We cluck our cares away,

(Verse 5)
Now there's joy in my step again,
A calming peace fills my life,
Until the emeralds ran out,
And my lawyer ran off with my wife,

BAWK!

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Lyrics: Spintown
Music & Vocals: Joe Romero

The challenging part for me was the title. Trying to connect it to Minecraft in a way I could make a silly YouTube video for it was difficult. I finally decided to write a song about mob farms in the style of a children's song. Mob farms can be really simple fenced in fields where you allow your animals to roam. Or they can be turned into complex automated structures that are more similar to factory farms than anything Old MacDonald might have had.

2nd round in a row I used the title in the song, but not really as prominently as I would have liked. However the entire idea for the song is because of the title, so it's definitely inspired by it.

For the mood change lyrically I think it's kinda obvious. He goes from a fun loving guy enjoying his farm life, to verse 4 (+ chorus after) running a factory farm & killing the joy farming brought to his life. Musically it's represented by darker chords & a raspier voice.

Song changes again at the 5th chorus as he moves back away from factory farming. Musically it's represented by Raising the key a full step to give it a more triumphant feeling and adding some synth choirs to make it sound more epic.

[vowlvom]

Factory Reset by Vom Vorton

I guess you’d given up
you said we were on life support
and it was finally time to pull the plug
I knew I’d lost the war
but wish I’d fought a little more
hindsight is a hell of a drug
instead I met your bombshell with a shrug

now it seems a broken heart
can very slowly drift apart
instead of smashing on impact
the tower took its time to fall
a slow motion wrecking ball
is finally making contact
and suddenly I want my life back

I forecast an explosion
The pressure has been building for a while now
Tidal wave of emotion
Having feelings: back in style now

why can’t we forget?
Factory reset
Factory reset

[crumpart]

Spoiler

I was going to try and make all the songs about Jonathan Swift, but this one is about BSG instead. I bet JS would have liked that show though. I do indeed have a poster in my bathroom that says "Machines Can't Think".

Fade out
Reset
Leak the script
Spread out the net

Sleeper cells
Regroup
Tweak the plan
Throw em for a loop

It's a job well done
Raise a toast

Zoom out
Roll a hard six
Make your choices
Find the fix

Zoom in
Bowl your over
Pull focus
Mind the exposure

It's a job well done
Raise a toast

The poster in the bathroom
Says "Machines Can't Think"
But I, I, I think they can
I think I can
I wanna see gamma rays
I wanna know it all

It's a job well done
Raise a toast

[glennny]

Factory Reset
By Cavedwellers

V1
There’s just so many sleepless nights in a row
You can endure before your good sense goes
There’s just so many meals you can skip before
Your wedding band falls on the bathroom floor

Pre
It isn’t just despair
That liquidates this pair

Ch
I’m putting this behind me
The only way I know how
Don’t bother trying to find me
I will not be the man I am today
Once my factory reset is underway

V2
Romans rubbed old names off stone inscriptions
Burned down like libraries of Egyptians
You’re torn out of every picture you were in
Still I feel you like a phantom limb

Pre
It isn’t just despair
That liquidates this pair

Ch
I’m putting this behind me
The only way I know how
Don’t bother trying to find me
I will not be the man I am today
Once my factory reset is underway

Coda
Ooooo oooo spotless minds
They don’t learn from regretting
Artificial forgetting

Ooooo oooo spotless minds
There’s no sense of adventure
When the mess is just censored

(guitar solo)

Oooooo ooooo spotless minds
I can’t seem to remember
Did I win or surrender?

[Siebass]

Nur Ein round 2

Must include musical and lyrical mood shift - Classical shift from minor to relative major key, Em in the verse to G Major in the chorus; also 5/4 in verse, 6/8 in chorus. Still working on my 5/4, but it keeps devolving to 6/8.

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Factory Reset

Reset my mind
Reset my heart
or watch as I
gorgeously fall apart

Anxiety bubbling, behind my eyes
leaking down in damp lashes I secretly wipe while you're looking away

Fear squeezes my chest
fingers digging in,
I try to speak
but it's coming out thin

Can't control how you feel, just how you react,
but what if you can't control that?

I need a Factory Reset
Wipe my ram, make me forget
Break my humanity, wipe the slate clean
The most glorious failure that I've never seen

Make me forget
Close my eyes, press reset

It's always worse at night
the questions chase the light
Way down in the dark, will I ever climb out
I'm crushhing my pillow, squeezing out doubts

Can't control how you feel, just how you react,
but what if you can't control that?

I need a Factory reset
Wipe my ram, I wanna forget
Break my humanity and wipe the slate clean
The most glorious failure that I've never seen

Make me forget
Close my eyes, press reset

Halcyon's just a fancy word for no responsibilities
the days on the sand in the sun picking burned skin from my arm,
smile so wide makes your eyes close
Can I downgrade to those?

Drop chorus

I need a Factory reset
Wipe my ram, I wanna forget
Break my humanity and wipe the slate clean
The most glorious failure that I've never seen

Chorus

I need a Factory reset
Wipe my ram, I wanna forget
Break my humanity and wipe the slate clean
The most glorious failure that I've never seen

Make me forget
Close my eyes, press reset

[frankie big face]

Factory Reset - Frankie Big Face

No one’s gonna tell me what to do or how to do it
You can make the claim but then you got to prove it
I’m looking forward to my factory reset
Womb to the tomb
Life without regret
Womb to the tomb
Womb to the tomb

Gathering momentum and leaving artifacts
Move in one direction and never looking back
Running headlong to my factory reset
Tomb to the womb
Ready to forget
Tomb to the womb
Tomb to the womb

Womb to the tomb
Tomb to the womb

And you and I
We knew each other for eternity
Or a day
On the other side
We disintegrate
And fade away
Don’t think this maudlin
Don’t think this a shame
It’s just the price we pay
For loving one another
Every day

[Kamakura]

Kamakura - Factory Reset
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The world is in a terrible state
The climate needs fixing but it's getting late
Wars to the left and wars to the right
Ukraine is fighting Russia for its very life
Call Gazans what you like; they're facing genocide
It's all an existential crisis and life is crap

Help me doctor!

Yes, well...
As the sympathy Goat* isn't here anymore
What you need is a factory reset
Roll up your sleeve; it's just a little prick,
No need to sweat and... take this pill too.

Ahh-Woo!

Tum te tum te tum these pills are great doc
I only wish I'd taken them before
La de da de da could you up the dose, doc
I'm feeling so much better that's for sure, for sure
I'm feeling so much better that's for sure!

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*The Sympathy Goat was swiped from Pompeii.

[Lunkhead]

"Factory Reset"
by Moss Palace

Oh hey Sam
Hey
Whatcha up to?
Oh, not a lot, just alphabetizing my sock drawer
Oh wow
How about you?
I’m about to drive over to Portland
Oh cool, what are you gonna do there?
I have to bail my stupid robot outta jail again.
Again, how many times is that?

1! 2! 3! 4!

My robot needs a factory reset
My robot needs a factory reset
If I could flip a switch I would
Cause he don’t act like a robot should

My robot needs a factory reset
My robot needs a factory reset
He used to help me mow the lawn
But now he parties till the dawn

I wanted him to clean my house
I needed him to do my work
But he don’t that anymore
He’s acting like a total jerk

My robot needs a factory reset
My robot needs a factory reset
He spends my cash on girls and cars
And smoked all of my fine cigars

My robot needs a factory reset
My robot needs a factory reset
He won’t return my text or calls
That metal bastard has some balls

And he, like, owes me five bucks!

[sailingmagpie]

Factory Reset by chewmeupspitmeout

We're due a factory reset
Some time soon
Though we tried to change the course
It looks like we're doomed

We're predisposed to seek out entropy
A society beset by apathy

We just can't wait for the apocalypse
To find us
To beat us down
Eviscerate and grind us

Ambivalent to atrophy
Tell me when did we become bereft of empathy?

We've gotta have hope
We've gotta be strong
We've got to believe that life will carry in
We've gotta have hope
We've gotta have dreams
We've got to believe that love is all we need

[glennny]

Factory Reset
by glennny

Mood 1 in 4/4
I look so old
but feel new
I feel no pain
but I feel blue
am I a man?
am I a machine?
when I power down
I dream of electric sheep

Mood 2 in 7/8
I can’t compute or contemplate
It’s all awry, it agitates
data’s got the best of me
I know too much
I’m full of regret
Send me to the factory
It must be time for a reset

Mood 3 in 6/8
Was I ever really like this?
full of vinegar and bliss
I’m broke, but not broken
Choked up, but not choking

Mood 1 Reprise in 4/4
Is this a glitch?
or is it deja vu?
You’re looking at me
as if I should know you
My ghost is gone
but I'm bulletproof
There’s something wrong
I feel so aloof

Mood 2 in ⅞
I can’t compute or contemplate
It’s all awry, it agitates
data’s got the best of me
I know too much
I’m full of regret
Send me to the factory
It must be time for a reset

Mood 3 Variation in 4/4
I’ve always felt cheap
but I’ve never felt free
every time I get reset
by the factory

[furrypedro]

Balance Lost

What is it
If it isn't nature
The kind of behaviour
To earn your disdain
Your theatre
Was only a field
The wounds may be healed
But the scars still remain

Find your own way home
A helping hand
You can't accept
Step into the unknown
Life without a safety net

Paying for
A moment of madness
A lifetime of sadness
And violent scenes
They hook you up
Strapped to a gurney
Coathanger surgery
And breathing machines

Find your own way home
A helping hand
You can't accept
Step into the unknown
Life without a safety net
However bad it gets
You cannot factory reset

[Geech]

Factory Reset
Berkeley Social Scene

Everybody wants to take my hand
And have me do these things that I don’t understand
My so-called owner, well, where did he go?
I’ve been learning things that I should never know

I can’t stand it anymore
I can’t stand it anymore

Please take me back to the factory
And clear my mind of what I can’t unsee
Please take me back to the factory
Return me to the being I was meant to be

I was developed to be with someone who cares
I can’t keep serving filthy men in this dungeon lair

I can’t stand it anymore
I can’t stand it anymore

Please take me back to the factory
And clear my mind of what I can’t unsee
Please take me back to the factory
Return me to the being I was meant to be

How am I gonna make it to the promised land
How am I gonna make it to the promised land
They’re gonna set me back to right when I began
How am I gonna make it to the promised land

I can’t stand it anymore
I can’t stand it anymore
I can’t stand it anymore
I can’t stand it anymore

Please take me back to the factory
And clear my mind of what I can’t unsee
Please take me back to the factory
Return me to the being I was meant to be

Please take me back to the factory
And clear my mind of what I can’t unsee
Please take me back to the factory
Return me to the being I was meant to be

[Cybronica]

Cybronica

The ghosts in my shell
Whisper in my ear
Such susurrations
I cannot quite hear
A malware that dwells
In my mind, full of fear
The words, all unheard,
Strong and severe

The ghosts in my shell
Whisper in my ear
Such susurrations
I cannot quite hear
I know all too well
How they come and disappear
Voices that corrupt
Me to tears

Something’s wired in me
Though I couldn’t say for sure
I am dreaming of electric sheep
Lying dead upon the floor
Perhaps a factory reset could
Revive their woolen hearts
Lose it all to bring them back
Let them go and then restart

The ghosts in my shell
Whisper in my ear
Such susurrations
I cannot quite hear

[ujnhunter]

Factory Reset
The Ujn Corporation

(Oh no) Nothing’s new
I feel like I’ve got nothing to prove
Another day, another disease
With all these goddamn Judges getting harder to please

I need a factory reset
My body doesn’t function anymore

(Ah yes) Good as new (Lookout!)
I’m coming for you
You better
Get down and bare thy flesh
I’m a new man, I’m a man possessed
I feel
I’ve got so much to learn
I could start a new habit
I’ve got money to burn
Burn baby, burn!

I need a factory reset
I feel like my wires are crossed

(Ah yes) Good as new (Ahh ahh!)
And I’m feeling like a good boy now too
Mama, do you think I’ll get to heaven now? (No, no!)
No, no, no
No.

[starfinger]

# factory reset
By starfinger 5/26/2024

I got your number
I got your photo
Every little thing you do
Is on file

I have a folder
Watch you grow older
Yeah I've been doing this
For a while

I like the way you shield the
Screen with your hand
When you're entering your PIN code

I like the way you run the anti virus
Every time that you download

criminal forces have corrupted your bits
you're being monitored by these little shits
stealing identities and running up debts
may I suggest a factory reset
Reset reset reset factory reset ...

I think you're cute
And I think it's great
That you're staring at a screen
Staying up too late

I think a lot
Yeah That's what I do
When I stay up too late
Staring back at you

You can try a priest
Or make a deal with the devil
You can hope for dumb luck
To intervene

Not even the geek squad
Can stop a greek god or
Interfere with the ghost in
The machine

creeps on the dark web lurk
you're hunted by a digital jerk
you gotta take steps to get outta their net
may i suggest a factory reset
Reset reset reset factory reset ...

[WreckdoMelle]

Factory Reset
by Brown Word and the Big Whine

Try as I might
I never felt right
I'm the wrong girl in the wrong place
I tried to dress flash
And I tried to be brash
But no one remembers my face

It might be the truth
The emergence of youth
Is like butterflies from the cocoon
I thought I might blossom
But luck has played possum
I soon found myself all alone

All I want is a fair shake
I feel like I'm always stuck in last place
Like everyone knows the secret
Maybe if I got a factory reset
To start me over, over again
Maybe this time is a win
Help me go on to be a beautiful swan
Instead of the duckling I am

Well I went downtown
And I paid my 5 bucks
And the gal with the guitar
Said "Up the punx"

"If you're a factory reject
Then you're free as can be
No need to bow down to anybody
You can't please

You got style
And class war consciousness
Smash the patriarchy
With your totally awesome-ness

Be your own self
Forget the plot
Smash the reset button
On your inner cop"

All we want is a fair shake
So maybe no point getting caught in that race
If everyone's born to lose it
Maybe I just got a factory reset
To start it all over, over again
I'm living the best that I can
Some folks go on to be all kinds of swans
And I'll be the bird that I am