Southbound Vertigo Parkway (Lyrics)

Southbound Vertigo Parkway

(seen in film "The Code: Linux", when Linus Torvalds is driving a car to his workplace in the USA)

(Words: Jöns Hallanaho)

 

Feeling like the King of America

Southbound Vertigo Parkway

The weather´s quite unlike the Antarctica

You´re never alone in Silicon Valley, U.S.A.

 

Seems I was the chosen prodigy

Writing code like sonnets by Shakespeare

Some sort of alchemy

They couldn´t even get near

The meek didn´t inherit the earth

The geeks defined the worth

“Go public, sell the shares, as soon as you can,

get out and go on, to the next thing, retire young”

 

Could have been the King of America

The weather´s quite unlike the Antarctica

Southbound Vertigo Parkway

 

Hung out with the digerati

Made me part of the glitterati

What could be a better vault, than

Living next door to San Andreas Fault?

In this random vein of gold

Trying to find a foothold

That´s the price, for striking it rich

After giving your boldest pitch

That´s the price for striking it rich

 

Should have been the King of America

Southbound Vertigo Parkway

The weather´s quite unlike the Antarctica

Even when the stars shine

 

You´re never alone in Silicon Valley, U.S.A.

 

Well, here we go…"Changing the world” is our set

Selling jelly beans on the Internet

The frontier became racetrack

For the predators and egomaniacs

If you go away for a week

You turn, find yourself obsolete

You´re always keeping score of

Who´s making more

Under the truculent sun

 

I was the chosen prodigy

Writing code like sonnets by Shakespeare

Could have been the King of America

Southbound Vertigo Parkway

The weather´s quite unlike the Antarctica

Southbound Vertigo Parkway

Southbound Vertigo Parkway

 

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