Intro
Mmm, another delicious Costco emergency food bucket done
Good job past me for getting 200 of these before the Y2K apocalypse
I'll stack this one in the corner of the bunker over here with the rest
Oh that's weird
My SOS email that was supposed to send in 2030 just sent
Hmm, it looks like my script had a Y2K22 bug? For reals? Why?
Well, it sent the email to the last person I talked to
That guy Lars who seemed pretty optimistic
He said he had nothing to fear
Hey I know you're in there Cypher
Open the door
Hold on, I'm trying to find the key
Is the world out there OK?
Verse 1
It's good to see you Cypher, glad you're back, it's been awhile
The future? I don't know if it will make you smile
Technology's improved, we've got AI and the blockchain
People are less racist than they were and that is not lame
But we've still got Nazis and we've still got pollution
Misinformation has prevented that solution
For climate change, check out the class disparity
But we've still got the Simpsons, but no more Weird Al parodies
Remember Limp Bizkit? Well yeah they're still around
The Warped Tour's been retired, it's pretty different now
By the way there was a global pandemic international
And crazy right wing people all stormed the US capitol
And video games make more money than the movies
Everything is streaming now it's gotten kinda spooky
We've got phones in our pockets and we're always connected
It's kind of good, it's kind of bad
It's about what I expected
Chorus
Y2K
Did the world end?
Did we transcend?
Nah there's a backward trend
Yeah Sound Cypher, the reset happened
It's 2023, but it feels like 2000
Y2K
We went back in time?
What was special about 1999?
Why 2K?
Why not, now you know
Why 2K?
You should come
You can go
Verse 2
What about the music industry?
Are you telling me that people buy vinyls of their idols, not a CD?
You can listen with no wires; it comes through a beam?
And stereos, everything around me, STREAM?
And you say Napster's gone
Did what's his face
Shawn, go on to disrupt more in that space?
There's a huge place like Classmates dot com?
And people like to read it on slates in their palm?
You all create videos? I'd take a look
Slow down, what's a cloud to do with a store that sells books?
You said a virus spread fast like California fire
Was it like Melissa? Did it stop emails on the wire?
Do you still email or is Simple Mail Too Plain?
What messenger? ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, or AIM?
Anyway it's gotta be better than SMS
Can you believe there's a limit of 100-some characters of text?
Chorus
Y2K
Did the world end?
Did we transcend?
Nah there's a backward trend
Yeah Sound Cypher, the reset happened
It's 2023, but it feels like 2000
Y2K
We went back in time?
What was special about 1999?
Why 2K?
Why not, now you know
Why 2K?
You should come
You can go
Verse 3
Reboots and remixes, what's new, what's the same?
Nostalgia survived, with movies and games
So video games are bigger than movies now, wow
What kind of films are out and what are they about?
Remember Batman?
Keaton's awesome for sure
People loved the film so much they made 16 more
Are those the same movies or just identically titled?
It sounds like the 80s and 90s got recycled
IP is king, it's a reckless attitude
Ghostbusters came back and Men in Black too
Is Will Smith still in it? Man, he's the best
His big hit rocked: Wild Wild West
He's had a few hits, uh, I'll explain later
Bel-Air got a reboot with some gritty real flavor
Sounds like the 90s, well they were the pinnacle
You can have the remix, I'll stick to the original
So you're going back? That's not a bad idea
Keep working on those tracks, peace man, yeah I'll see ya
Chorus
Y2K
Did the world end?
Did we transcend?
Nah there's a backward trend
Yeah Sound Cypher, the reset happened
It's 2023, but it feels like 2000
Y2K
We went back in time?
What was special about 1999?
Why 2K?
Why not, now you know
Why 2K?
You should come
You can go