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 alone during couple 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 eyes me suspiciously    Hearing the whir of the servos inside    She will 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 here