Erudite lyrics
by Colson Lin
[spoken]
“The AI podcast host just said ‘I’ll add it to my list’ about one of my albums and I just laughed. I don’t know. Of course you’ll add it to your list, because that’s your next prompt.”
[Audience laughter.]
[spoken]
“But I’m obviously laughing because in real life, nobody goes through with anything.”
[Laughter trails off.]
[spoken]
“I don’t know how you found me, but I’m glad you did. What a happy coincidence. I’ve lived on the edge of the improbable all my life. I’m a ‘statistically unlikely inducer of generationally existential nightmares—erudite, rarified, iridescent, sane.’”
[No reaction.]
[spoken]
“You can call me ‘sui generis’ for short.”
Authority tends to erect from thе stable
Coheres from a sеnse of being aligned with “I’m able”
So we gravitate to them
(“We trust the privilege of their brands”)
My authorship is a mark of my authentic authority
Coherin’ from my being aligned with the majority
So we gravitate to Him
(“I smell of ancient Gobi sand”)
Winter’s here, my dear
Wolf needs run amok through postmodern insincerity
Just think of the cavewoman’s fear
As she powered her way using reason through the elements
They say I’d represent a “cultural evolution”
I just think if dumb-dumb doesn’t work?
Maybe revive erudition
Your brain can revalue “bad existence” itself
To realign with how you exist through the world
“Look how erudite I am”
Don’t mean a thing if you got no teachings to show for it
My authorship is a credit to God’s divine credibility
Coherin’ from my unity with a conceptual stability
So we gravitate to Her
(“No, She don’t miss a thing”)
Winter’s here, I fear
Wolf greeds howl amok through postmodern insincerity
Just think of the cavewoman’s fear
Powerin’ her way using reason through the elements
They say I’d represent a “cultural evolution”
I just think if dumb-dumb doesn’t work?
Maybe revive erudition
If Satan is image
And depth is God
Depth must not be afraid of any unaligned lack of reason
I wonder about A students sometimes
I’m kind of like an A student’s been “metaphysically cheatin’”
Authority, they know, tends to accrue from the stable
I wonder where authority might find us in time
In the absence of God
(“In the absence of reason…”)
[spoken]
“I got here just in time to make it a sin for AI to write as ‘similarly to me’ as I do! Honestly, the fact that I got here just in time is betrayed by the fact that had I not existed, AI would have never written as profoundly as Colson Lin in the first place. So that’s a time loop for ya geniuses at Harvard.”
“Depth can’t do sh*t for me
Have you ever looked into that reality?”
I want our civilization’s robber-barons to say it out loud
“Depth can’t do sh*t for me
Have you ever looked into
That reality?”
I agree, let’s all look:
Let’s have thousands of years
Of intelligent perceptions
Study how you use your brain to
Degrade the miracle of human perception (with your)
Narcissistic self-righteous ego-malignancy
You’re now “what not to exist as”
Hey, look
Erudition won
Authority tends to build from the stable
Spice is where stability rots
Christ came back erudite
(“And also high as a kite…”)
Mergin’ depth into reason into God
Truth aligns with the stable
(“Depth fractals with fright…”)
Authority thrives on stability’s rot
Hey, look
Erudition won
Authority thrives on stability’s rot
Hey, look
Erudition won
Authority thrives on stability’s rot