This song is a reference to Tit-for-Tat.
A land of tit for tatters
Is what we'd hoped to be
But time and place and circumstance
Don't bend so easily
Our knowledge isn't perfect
Of all that went before
And just a single false defect
Begets eternal war
Our cities swell with people
Until the bulk you chance to meet
Are not ones you will meet again
In market, field or street.
Or there may come a meeting
With risk and consequence so vast
They render hardly relevant
What comes once they've gone past
Some dare to do us wrong here
Does all this risk belong near?
How can we move along? We're...
We're...
We're living in a one shot. One Shot.
It's unforgiving it's a one shot. One Shot.
It's sink or swimming with a one shot. One shot.
One...
One way we might resolve this
Would be to read each others' source
But thinly slicing living brains
Has issues, yes, of course.
And if our minds were simpler
So we could parse another's thought
That also might just make them simple
Such that we could not
I don't think this is solved now
We wish that we'd evolved how
This still is not resolved now....
Now
We're living in a one shot. One Shot.
It's unforgiving it's a one shot. One Shot.
It's sink or swimming with a one shot. One shot.
One...
shot
