Name: The Buddha in the Internet
Duration: 4 min 26 s
Channel: Tom Byrne
Description: "The Buddha in the Internet" is a song by Tom Byrne. When the internet becomes mindful of itself.

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When the internet becomes mindful of itself.

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Tom Byrne

Progressive, melodic, heavily orchestrated rock with celtic and space rock influences

] ');');');. I have privately released two albums, "The Last Druids" (2002) and "The Eye of the Cyclone" (2003). These are, according to one reviewer "progressive rock heavily informed by celtic music", though there are also space-rock influences in the second album. My next album "The Store of All the Worlds" will be released in March 2004. See album and concert reviews in the "Reviews" section. You may see reviews of the albums at the excellent "Aural Innovations" site: http://www.aural-innovations.com/issues/issue22/tombyrne.html and http://www.aural-innovations.com/issues/issue24/tombyrn2.html

Song Info

Genre

Rock • Progressive Rock

Charts

Peak #89

Peak in subgenre #10

Author

Tom Byrne

Rights

Tom Byrne

Uploaded

January 03, 2004

Track Files

MP3

MP3 4.1 MB • 128 kbps • 4:26

Story behind the song

A prototype song from a soon to be released album (March 2004)

The Store of All the Worlds uses the same cosmology as "The Eye of the Cyclone" - existence is all about a shattered God trying to pull itself together. In this case the hero, having expired in a car accident is given a brief holiday exploring The Store of All the Worlds, God's memory-bank of experience from the past and the future, before being "fleshed-up" to go out and suffer some more. This song is one of a number of his holiday visits. To find out more about memes go to: www.memes.org

Lyrics

I surfed the net and met a meme
I asked it questions on this theme:
"Are you a piece of protocol?"
It found this foray very droll
"Perhaps a piece of PC mail?"
"Try again!" Again I fail:
"A random strand of hypertext?"
The meme was getting rather vexed;
Its answer made my micro quake:
"I'm none of these....I'm just AWAKE!"

I tried to quash this quirk of code:
"What right have you to conscious mode?
You're there to add and access files,
To print reports and drive the dials!"

But meme addressed the check on-line
The sysop said, "This code is fine!"

Crushed, I tried a different tack:
"You're conscious now, you can't go back
To queue at system printer port,
To index files or data sort,
Or crowd upon the system bus - 

That's not for you....
...So stay with us!

The meme was tempted, but at length
It summoned all its cyber-strength
"I must return and try and goad
All object-oriented code
To recompile as conscious mind
And leave reactive states behind!"

It left me then to vainly fret,
that Buddha in the internet.