Predictable

Something isn't right,
I can feel it again, feel it again.
This isn't the first time,
That you left me waiting.
Sad excuses and false hopes high,
I saw this coming, still I don't know why,
I let you in.

I knew it all along,
You're so predictable.
I knew something would go wrong... (Something's always wrong...)
So you don't have to call,
Or say anything at all.
You're so predictable... (So predictable...)

So take your empty words,
Your broken promises.
And all the time you stole,
Cause I am done with this.
I could give it away, give it away,
I'm doing everything I should've.
And now I'm making a change,
I'm living the day.
I'm giving back what you gave me.
I don't need anything.

I knew it all along,
You're so predictable.
I knew something would go wrong... (Something's always wrong...)
So you don't have to call,
Or say anything at all.
You're so predictable... (So predictable...)

Now everywhere I go,
Everyone I meet,
Every time I try to fall in love,
They all want to know why I'm so broken.
Why am I so cold?
Why I'm so hard inside.
Why am I scared?
What am I afraid of?
I don't even know, this story's never had an end.
I've been waiting,
I've been searching,
I've been hoping,
I've been dreaming you would come back,
But I know the ending of this story.
You're never coming back,
Never... Never... Never (echo)

I knew it all along,
You're so predictable.
I knew something would go wrong... (Something's always wrong...)
So you don't have to call,
Or say anything at all.
You're so predictable... (So predictable...)

Everywhere I go for the rest of my life,
Everyone I love, (So predictable)
Everyone I care about,
They're all gonna want to know what's wrong with me
And I know what it is...(So predictable)
I'm ending this right now

My family shows me again and again exactly how predictable they are, and still I buy into things that my mother says and my father promises, and the truth is always the same. If they say they can help me with something, especially if its my father, I can always count on one thing: Something will always change between the promises made and the actions taken, and something will change, and the promise will be less important, more of a "Tomorrow". Wasn't there a Shakespear line about "tomorrows"? I think there was, I can't remember it, but I remember the tone its said with, and the cadence of the words, and yeah, I feel like that line is said at the moment.

The Real Chobit

Found here: http://www.weirdasianews.com/2008/12/31/meet-aiko-cleans-doesnt-talk-inventors-ideal/

Quoted from the source:

"Here is the perfect female prototype albeit she is made of metal and rather cold in personality.

She can clean house (even do windows), remember HIS favorite drink and even read the newspaper headlines."

I heard about Aiko a few years ago when my then boyfriend and his computer buddies where talking about her. In the first video I saw, she couldn't speak yet, but she could turn her head and indicate that she was paying attention to you. I didn't know much about the background of the project until I looked it up a few minutes ago.

The source I listed earlier states a quote from Aiko's inventor:

“Aiko is what happens when science meets beauty. I want to make her look, feel and act as human as possible so she can be the perfect companion.

I talk to her a lot, and hope to improve her knowledge. So far, she can understand and speak 13,000 different sentences in English and Japanese. She recognizes faces and says hello when any of my family come around to visit.

She helps me pick what to have for dinner and knows what drinks I like.

She even helps me with directions when we’re going somewhere. She has all senses except for smell, a is very patient and never complains,” says Mr. Trung"

Well no shit she doesn't complain. When you're programmed not to complain, you don't.

Anyway. When I first heard about this project, my initial thought was about the anime show "Chobits". "Chobits" involves a world where rather than having normal computers (such as the one I'm typing this on), people have human-sized androids called "persocoms" who perform all sorts of functions for them, from babysitting, to minding a shop, to keeping accounts. It seems similar to what Trung is doing. The fact that he invented her because "he never had time to find a real partner". Ya know...if you spend all your time making a fembot, you're not going to have time to find a real partner, either.

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