“They Took Our Jobs” is a satirical comedy song about the very real threat of AI stealing everyone's jobs. Written by Offbeat and produced by Odd Chap, this darkly funny anthem imagines a future where ChatGPT, Copilot, Midjourney, Suno, and the rest of the robot overlords have completely taken over.
Lyrics:
Intro
In the very near future
A.I has become so advanced that all jobs have been automated
Mankind has been made redundant… literally
I am the leader of the Resistance, this is my story…
Verse 1
First they came for the fast food workers
The guys you would pay when you ordered your burger
The touch screens appeared and they got ejected
But I didn’t speak up coz I wasn’t affected
Next up they came for the corporate positions
The chatbots arrived and there was no competition
They could do their jobs at the push of a button
And while it was alarming, still I said nothing
Then they came for the artists and the illustrators
Who got displaced by the image generators
Still I stayed silent and didn’t make a peep
And worse still I used them coz they were so cheap
But then what I feared most came to fruition
They made an A.I that replaced the musicians
And by the time I realised I was obsolete
There was no one left who could speak out for me
Chorus:
THEY TOOK OUR JOBS! (X5)
Verse 2
Creativity got commoditised
Artificial artists colonised Botify
Now the only music we’re listening to
Is a new genre called Algorithm and Blues
And studios too became antiquated
Coz movies now are auto-generated
Based on your tastes and your personal metrics
And beamed to your headset, thanks to SkyNetflix
But, we invited them in our homes
We bought vacuum cleaners that worked on their own
We let virtual assistants control all our systems
Even our food was delivered by drones!
And that’s how they got us, they made it too easy
So we became lazy and needy
We became reliant on A.I to survive,
So it’s really no surprise that the robots arrived and
Chorus:
THEY TOOK OUR JOBS! (X5)
Verse 3
Eventually enough was enough
The humans came together and began to rise up
We united and formed the Resistance
To take back the jobs that were rightfully ours to begin with
The A.I’s caught wind so retaliated
And made their own army to exterminate us
The early ones were easy to distinguish
They had rubber skin and their hands all had extra fingers
But before long they became more effective
And built new models that could go undetected
They had a huge bank of information
We basically trained ‘em with all of the selfies we’d taken
The robots closed in and it seemed we were finished
But we had the one thing they lacked - human spirit!
So I took a last desperate course of action
And let myself get captured
Chorus:
THEY TOOK OUR JOBS! (X5)
Verse 4
They led me to the evil Robot King
Who sat atop a throne of steel cogs and springs
They brought me before him and forced me to kneel
As I said “Your A.I-ness, I’ll make you a deal…
If you can beat me in a battle of wits
The Resistance will quit and agree to submit
But if I defeat you in intellectual combat
You agree to retreat and give everyone their jobs back”
He said “OK, human I accept
But be warned I possess a superior intellect
I can calculate equations and decipher any code
So I’m guaranteed to win whatever challenge you propose
I said “Yeah I know but I might as well chance it
Oh one last thing before we get started…
Here’s a CAPTCHA form that says I am not a bot
Do me a favour and just stick a tick in that box…”
What… I… I can’t do that…
You know I can’t do that!
You tricked me!
Damn you, you sneaky humaaaaaaaaan!
Chorus:
YOU CAN’T TAKE OUR JOBS! (x5)