Written for guitar buddy Jeff at JP Auto, Hilo before driving down to help him unsnarle his credit card processing dialup vs IP dilemmas. He said I should write a song about his data tech blues so I did.
Lyrics
The Data Tech Blues
- by David Elias
Come you ladies and you gentlemen listen to my song
You might think it's right or you might think it's wrong
Just a little bit of everybody's story out today
The data tech blues gonna carry us away
I got the blues
I got the tech blues
Lord I got the data tech blues
I was born on analog both the vinyl and the tubes
Dialup was working on the phone lines that we used
Everything was slow but how were we to know
That the fax and the modem were the first that had to go
I really don't know why but then I had to try
The cleaner sound of audio they wanted me to buy
It's Compact Disc they said, your ears are not misled
By the hiss of tape and scratchy sounds your albums always make
Then Ethernet caught up with me, an RJ45
But I'd rather hear a jukebox with a 45 archive
Now I have to plug it in with something called CAT5
And USB is using me it's eating me alive
Every time I turn around I need another thumb drive
Now they put it in the air just to get it in my ear
It's WiFi and it's Bluetooth with a 5G nearly here
I can't see or taste or smell it but I sometimes hear it clear
When I shout out to Alexa, "Would you play me something Dear?"
I got the blues
I got the tech blues
Lord I got the data tech blues