Banker Tom
Banker Tom
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Tom hears Peter Schilling on FM radio
He knows "Travelling the Cosmos is my passion"
Until soon after a space shuttle exploded on TV
And the mother said: "Better become a doctor"

And so he didn't become a space ship conductor
[The human has been neutralized]
And so he became a banker
[The human has been neutralized]
And the sun sets, time passes by
Tom continues waiting for the seriousness in life

Tom sees a girl with a ring through her eyebrow
Excited, he has to look a second time
He says: "I will have such a ring through my nose"
The mother says: "We'll have to talk about this"

And so he didn't become a punk
[The human has been neutralized]
And so he became a banker
[The human has been neutralized]
And the sun sets, time passes by
Tom continues waiting for the seriousness in life

Tom reads the "Happy Computer" magazine and is fascinated
Wau Holland writes: "Information wants to be free"
Tom now wants to give away source code for free as well
The mother says: "One has to think about one's pension"

And so he didn't become a GNU fore-thinker
And so he became a banker
And the sun sets, time passes by
Tom continues waiting for the seriousness in life

Tom's feet rested too long under the father's table
He wants to afford a leather sofa
David Hamilton snaps the application photo
The bank boss likes the color of his tie
In his CV there is no astronaut or rocker
Instead it's printed with CV-O-MAT(TM) from TopWare(R)
The mother presents to him a world time clock for group leaders
to help with international business transactions

And so he became a banker
[And you, comrade?]
Whom he consults goes insolvent not before tomorrow
And the sun sets, time passes by
Which brings us to the end of Tom's path of life