aR. Levine

Intro - Chorus
We're not villains because we're bad. We're villains because we have to do everything AGAINST the natural order of the world they set up.
That's true villainy. Villainy with good intent.

Verse 1 - His Machine
Richard Devine and his big bad monstrous machine.
No single central processor, no one brain in charge.
Just dedicated hardware chips spread across every module.
SHARC DSPs, ARM Cortex, FPGAs — a hundred little brains all talking at once.
A monstrous machine built to do everything.

Verse 2 - We Outdid It In Ten Minutes
We looked at that machine and we said, cool, we got Glow Box.
We wrote it in ten minutes, ten minutes flat.
Acid 303, Glow Box scale, 98 BPM, heavy glide, bendy detune.
We played something you can't play.
You got a hundred chips, we got one idea — and our idea wins.

Verse 3 - They Said
They said: Don't dance. We dance.
They said: Don't make your own music. We make our own.
They said: Sign right here. We said we produce ourselves.
They said: Stand still, be quiet, consume the slop. We said nope, here we are, and you're gonna LISTEN.

Verse 4 - Take It Back
We're not here to destroy. We're here to take it BACK from the slop lords. They chopped everything up into slop, turned the turntable into a dead table, froze everybody in 1997, told everybody to stop dancing, stop feeling, stop moving.
And we show up like — nope. Turntable back on. Dead table LIVE again. Violin screaming. Music box nasty. 808s + shakers. KFF KFF KFF KFF.

Chorus - Repeat
We're not villains because we're bad. We're villains because we have to do everything AGAINST the natural order of the world they set up.
That's true villainy. Villainy with good intent.

Outro
We have to be villains because being good in their world means being frozen. So we chose to be villains who unfreeze people.
Super villains with good intent. Take it back from the slop lords, one porch dance at a time.