last week i left a note on laura s desk it said i love you signed anonymous friend turns out she s smarter than i thought she was she knows i wrote it now the whole class does too and i m all alone during couples skate when she skates by with some guy on her arm but i know that i ll forget the look of pity in her face when i m living in my solar dome on a platform in space cause it s gonna be the future soon and i won t always be this way when the things that make me weak and strange get engineered away it s gonna be the future soon i ve never seen it quite so clear and when my heart is breaking i can close my eyes and it s already here i ll probably be some kind of scientist building inventions in my space lab in space i ll end world hunger i ll make dolphins speak work through the daytime spend my nights and weekends perfecting my warrior robot race building them one laser gun at a time i will do my best to teach them about life and what it s worth i just hope that i can keep them from destroying the earth cause it s gonna be the future soon and i won t always be this way when the things that make me weak and strange get engineered away it s gonna be the future soon i ve never seen it quite so clear and when my heart is breaking i can close my eyes and it s already here on earth they ll wonder as i piece by piece replace myself and the steel and circuits will make me whole but i ll still feel so alone until laura calls me home  i ll see her standing by the monorail she ll look the same except for bionic eyes she lost the real ones in the robot wars i ll say i m sorry she ll say it s not your fault or is it and she ll eye me suspiciously hearing the whir of the servos inside and she ll scream and try to run but there s nowhere she can hide when a crazy cyborg wants to make you his robot bride well it s gonna be the future soon and i won t always be this way when the things that make me weak and strange get engineered away it s gonna be the future soon i ve never seen it quite so clear and when my heart is breaking i can close my eyes and it s already here1