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Y2K Lyrics

[Intro]
The exploitation of software vulnerabilities by hackers and others can result in significant damage to both federal and private sector computer systems

Yeah

[Verse 1]
I never saw it coming it just hit me like a freight train to my chest
As I fell backwards to the floor
I wanted to sink into it, to fade away and disappear
Or shut my eyes and scramble to the door

[Pre-Chorus]
But as I sat and thought about it all
My ghost lives out the door and down the hall
What if everything you've ever done has been in service of a lie?

[Chorus]
Oh, it was just like Y2K I thought there was a better way
But they told me that this was just the way things work
There was nothing I could say
My voice already stripped away
So I just sat back down and watched it crumble into dirt

[Verse 2]
Broken glass surrounded me, my hands and knees were bloodied blistered
Fractured into horizontal lines
And all my hopes and dreams were there, I clambered to my feet and stumbled
Towards the red fluorescent exit sign
[Pre-Chorus]
But when I put my hand upon the door
A siren started tearing through the store
I needed to escape this gilded cage of my own making and fly

[Chorus]
It was just like Y2K I thought there was a better way
But they told me that this was just the way things work
There was nothing I could say
My voice already stripped away
So I just sat back down and watched it crumble into dirt

Yeah

[Outro]

[?]
Decreasing length of time from the announcement of a vulnerability until it is exploited, decreasing length of time for attacks to infiltrate [?] uninstall, resulting in damage to unpatched systems

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