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I Want To Die (Like They Do In Sci-Fi)
Words & Music by Brooke Lunderville, 2007.
It's not all bad being a redshirt, is it? Fame! Fortune! Phasers! Coldsleep pod malfunctions due to infection with a steganographic virus planted by malevolent AIs! Beats prostate cancer. Okay actually I'm trying to use reverse psychology on fate here, because now it would be totally ironic if I died in bed boringly at age 107, right? Right?

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     War and starvation fill many a hearse		     Am  Em
     Heart disease takes two lives for every three	     Dm  B  E
     If you die in a car crash, you won't be the first	     Am  Em
     But I'm hoping there's something less common for me     Dm  B  E

I want to die like they do in sci-fi!				A  E  A
A really glamourous death, a really famous last breath		A  E
I want to die like they do in sci-fi!				A  E  A
I want to do something new, if it's the last thing I do		F  E  A

	I could be strangled by quantum entanglement			Am  F
	Or maybe it turns out that comets cause cancer			Dm  B  E
	I'll be unspeakably mangled by Lovecraftian angles		Am  F
	Or burn in the atmosphere like a star dancer			Dm  B  E

I want to die...

	I'll get lunar silicosis, 307 ale cirrhosis			Am  F
	Or crustacean deprivation on the world without shrimp		Dm  B  E
	Maybe an alien probe will laser my frontal lobe			Am  F
	and make me travel back in time to the Hindenberg blimp		Dm  B  E

I want to die...

	I'll be murdered inside a proton super-collider			Am  F
	By an evil AI who didn't like my query				Dm  B  E
	I don't have to decide the best way to have died		Am  F
	I'll do it infinite times thanks to many-worlds theory		Dm  B  E

I want to die...

(guitar break)

I want to die...

AUGHHHHHHH!

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