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Once more there came to me a perception
Of the strange contrast between the stars and us
Overhead obscurity was now in full retreat
The population freed from the sky
Came out of its hiding place
Star by star
And on every side of the shadowy hills
Or the guessed featureless sea extended beyond sight
I'd rather be a cyborg than a goddess
I'd rather be swept into space
A vain admiration
A marvellous levitation
I'd rather be swept into space
I perceived that I was on a little grain of rock and metal
Filmed with water and with air
A little grain of rock and metal
Whirling in sunlight and darkness
And on the skin of that little grain
All the swarms of men
Generation by generation
Had lived in labor and in blindness
All the swarms of men
With intermittent joy and intermittent lucidity
I'd rather be a cyborg than a goddess
I'd rather be swept into space
A vain admiration
A marvellous levitation
I'd rather be swept into space
And all their history
With its empires
Its philosophies
Its proud sciences
With intermittent joy and intermittent lucidity
All the swarms of men with its social revolutions
Its increasing hunger for community
Was but a flicker in one day of the lives of stars
If one could know if there were here and there
Other grains of rock and metal inhabited by spirits
We would know whether man's search for wisdom and for love
Was an insignificant tremor
Or part of a universal movement
I'd rather be a cyborg than a goddess
I'd rather be swept into space
A vain admiration
A marvellous levitation
I'd rather be swept into space
I'd rather be a cyborg than a goddess
I'd rather be swept into space
A vain admiration