Robot Boy ( The GOASST ) Gm F# On the first day, it started to rain C# C#m Children were laughing, and went out to play Gm F# But soon all the streets, were rivers and streams C# F And creatures were trickling in front of the deep Eb Gm Cars floating like ships, over skyscraper tips Eb7 D7 The tallest of trees swaying like seaweed G F Bb Aluminum and paper clips F Cm D Eb Bb Refrigerator parts and microchips G F Bb A rudimentary robot boy F Cm CmX A heart of rubber bands and broken toys Gm F# Just before dusk, afraid he might rust C# C#m He climbed aboard, an upside down bus Gm F# With bottle-cap eyes, he soon realized C# F That nobody else, but he had survived Eb Gm Sifting through the debris, of kindred machines Eb7 D7 Drifting through a graveyard, of sunken cities G F Bb Aluminum and paper clips F Cm D Eb Bb Refrigerator parts and microchips G F Bb A rudimentary robot boy F Cm CmX A heart of rubber bands and broken toys Gm F# For thirty nights, with no land in sight C# C#m He never was hungry, or lonesome or tired Gm F# His mechanical brain, could not go insane C# F His metallic skin, could never feel pain Eb Gm The whales gathered round, in sibilant sound Eb7 D7 They told him about, the only way out: B Em "If you want to survive, if you want to shine? A D Then you've got to find, someone of your kind B Em Em7 As they pulled him away, across the waves" He saw a pretty face, made of tin cans and lace G F Bb Aluminum and balloon lips F Cm D Eb Bb Refrigerator parts and cardboard hips G F Bb A rudimentary robot girl F Cm CmX A heart of rubber bands and plastic pearls