Connor's Soliloquy - Dan Bull

I’ve been ordered here for a purpose

Due to my experience from a career in the service

To all appearances, I’m merely a person

But there are circuits concealed in the surface

But nobody’s perfect, not even mine

I can see the fear she’s feeling inside

But can’t quite empathise with the reason she is crying

But I don’t need to deal with it, my priority

Is reaching the scene of the crime, high-rise horror scene

I’m only even here to provide quality, authority

On whatever unfolded on this property

So once I told it to the SWAT, I’ll see what subtletly I can reveal

And employ in my appeal

To the android with whom I’m gonna have to deal

Seems antisocial but on closer inspection

There’s definitely some personal connection

Whether he was turned due to hurt or rejection

There’s a little girl needing urgent protection

Who doesn’t deserve this aggression, now for me

To be stepping out to the penthouse balcony

Ow, did he really fire a round at me?

Ding!

How could he think it’d help anything?

Now, we’re really in a painful conundrum

I’m gonna begin with a straightforward introduction

I’m Connor

Would you do me the honour of stepping off the ledge?

No, not the edge, are you off your head?

He’s gotten scared, had enough and said if we stepped any closer

They’d be dropping dead, fate hanging by a cotton thread

Or a copper wire or it might be fibre-optic

I am trying to inquire into what has got his clock ticking

But there isn’t time for the whys and the whats

This is life on the line and it’s my job to stop this

It’s not a trick you can fix with a drop kick

Clifftop, cliffhanger, logic that is toxic

It’s rock solid but he’s standing on a rock cliff

So no SWAT longshot’s gonna stop this

No sudden change of heart from a soft kiss

No M. Night Shyamalan shock plot twist

This is an uncommon situation, I do not wish

That one of my songs had a really big drop, shh

If only things could have been different

If only things could have been different

If only

If I’d have just listened better, I could have sussed this in a second

The blood dripping on the dresser couldn’t have been any fresher

I guess I must have given into the pressure

But luckily, I’ve been given a little refresher

To experiment and test a different method

To better fix the dilemma enveloping us at present

Getting under the desk and then I pick up a weapon

Then getting under the skin of this particular specimen

Non-citizen, he’s never been convicted a felon

So I must sift through the evidence

When predicting his temperament

Then commit to whatever decision that I’ve eventually given

As if I was there with the kid

And I’m staring into his retinas with her

Even thinking it’s making me shiver

And if we mess it up, how could the parents ever forgive us?

For such a deadly decision

We must be there with precision and from every position

It’s a roulette and this could go so many ways

Head spinning like a set of helicopter rotor blades

If there’s a God, then God just wrote a play

Is it a comedy or tragedy?

We’ve got to know today

There’s no escape, no doctor note or stay of leave

No hope and pray, you’ve got to vote remain

If you don’t then the shot will blow your brain

So rough, the shockwave will mean you’ll suffer loads of pain

So, look the other way, oh, just a little late

Pulled back my elbow and then I stuck it in your face

Look, I’ll do whatever stuff the predicament takes

Just to make the guarantee that our abductee is safe

Is this the fall of mankind?

Nah, I hear this all the damn time

Androids are the people with the cellphones

Talking to the humans who would tell them, «Call the land line»

Can high artificial intelligence

Really be aware if it is committing a deadly sin?

Or is it synthetic and it is merely pretending to think?

Whether it is or isn’t, their existence can end in a blink

In the end it doesn’t matter, flesh and metal are another matter

And I guess it’s just another chapter

In the neverending epic of connected interaction

That ascend from elements and chemicals up into passion

If only things could have been different

If only things could have been different

If only