Nineteen ninety nine…

Roy Giddens
03:17
2026-02-16 05:02
rap, saxophone, male
[intro] 
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Yeah… yeah… 
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Digit digits… fidget fidget… 
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End of the line… 
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Nineteen ninety nine… 
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Nineteen ninety nine… 
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Nineteen ninety nine… 
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[verse] 
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I’m fidgetin’ with digits, end time in my vision, 
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’99 countdown with a code crash premonition. 
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Don’t cry an anxious tear yeah nah, keep that in suspension, 
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’Til the Xd1 connects and rewires the whole system. 
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Tryin’ not to lose the plot, time forgot, clocks rot, 
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Tick tock glitch shock in a motherboard knot. 
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But the matrix grid don’t care 
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Don’t care don’t care don’t care 
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It’s goin’ down everywhere 
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EVERYWHERE! 
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Better message your mother, tell her to“stay online,” 
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She might be just a number in the warning sign. 
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A billion angry users steering down their screens at me 
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Like I’m the one who coded this catastrophe. 
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[chorus] 
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Who !!! Not me! 
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Computer games 
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Is life ever gonna be the same 
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COMPUTER GAMES 
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The future lookin’ wild, unchained 
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[verse] 
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There’s safety in numbers yeah, that’s what they preach, 
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Only way to stay stable when the code’s outta reach. 
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Figures never lie, but the users never see 
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When the first machine dies quietly. 
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Quietly! quietly quietly it was always meant to be 
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It’s all on a schedule tick, tock, flip, flop dead freeze, 
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Another technician about to sneeze 
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I think he have caught the computer disease 
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What will the year be when the clocks misread 
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This a suicide run ’til the work gets done, 
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The Matrix grid silent  its dead 
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BUT THE WAR HAS JUST BEGUN! 
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Jammed at a red light, system locked tight, 
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Level up on green, keep the future in sight. 
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Two thousand on the rise, what’s it gonna bring? 
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Nobody knows 
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THAT’S THE TERRIFYING THING 
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Nobody knows 
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THAT’S THE TERRIFYING THING………….. 
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[chorus] 
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Computer games 
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Is life ever gonna be the same 
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COMPUTER GAMES 
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The future still lookin’ insane 
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[verse] 
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Still fidget with the digits, yeah the pressure don’t stop, 
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Dot matrix frustration sittin’ heavy on top. 
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Now the new XU I tries connectin’ the spot, 
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Patchin’ up the grid where the old code rots. 
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Y2K bug, man..., it hit like a drug, 
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But the server didn’t care, didn’t even shrug. 
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Didn’t even blink no real bad stink 
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Who cares what the others think 
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Your computer didn’t die, you just dialled back in, 
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No one asked why  that’s the state we’re in. 
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Cause a machine don’t know it’s a brand new year, 
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It just loops what we programmed a glitch, push shift now clear. 
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We all shared the error, we all felt the fear, 
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But the world kept spinnin’ when the clock hit here. 
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We started dancing we need not to care 
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But the world kept spinnin’ when the clock hit here. 
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[chorus] 
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KEPT SPINNIN SPINNIN SPINNIN SPINNIN 
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But the world kept spinnin’ when the clock hit the number 2000 year. 
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yeah  Yeah YEAH YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH 
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