Queen of Despair (Ode to the Diode)

I’m a space cadet
I’ll be the first to admit it
I’m a space cadet (space cadet)
I’ll be the first to admit it

Feeling inundated with surface noise skip
Swamped with static hiss crackle blip
Feel like I’m wound too tight
Mainline the power grid tonight

Hooked up to the TV IV
Drain, drain all day
Whispers quietly away

Clips and blips
Steer me out into the stream
Of channel-scratchy noise
And away from the world

Space cadet
I’ll be the first to admit it
I’m double-sided in three ways

Fractionalized behind bit-mapped eyes
I miss your digitized face
Broken in pixelate

Desynchronize
Come unglued
Stretch out your strands and I’ll connect with you
Disconnect with you

Oh, space cadet
I’ll be the first to admit it
I’m double-sided in three ways

Stub out your frustration
In my ashtray hole
My black-and-blue soul

Pour my brain into a paper cup and scrape across the universe

I’ll be your king of decay
You’ll be my queen of despair
We’ll make a lovely desperate pair