Think Different
words and music by Roy Zimmerman
© 2004
(From "Homeland")

"Think Different" said the slogan on the billboard sign
"Right on!" said everybody as they drove by in line
On the billboard was Albert Einstein, different thinker extraordinaire
Who cared nothing for convention, or computers, or his hair

Think Different, everybody
Everybody, just be you
Oh, Think Different, everybody
'Cause the billboard told you to

I remember couple years ago, someone purchased Einstein's eyes
Not the insight, not the outlook, not the vision, just the eyes
They looked good, too, as far as dead eyes go
And they followed you round the room
And they're sure to fetch a fortune in the next big organ boom

Oh, Think Different, everybody
Everybody, just be you
Oh, Think Different, everybody
Like they do on Madison Avenue
Oh...

You know, if they really wanted you to think different they would have put Theodore Kaczyski up there.

I've been thinking
'Bout collecting
Little parts of
Famous dead people
Just to put 'em
All together
Have one really
Famous dead person

And then I'd license this person's image to sell some cigarette or brassiere
Maybe even have his own Christmas special
with Elian Gonzalez... and John Rocker...
And I think it was Albert, Albert Speer who said

Think Different, everybody
Everybody, don't blend in
Oh, Think Different, everybody
On the count of three let's begin

To Think Different, everybody
Everybody, just be you
Oh, Think Different, everybody
'Cause some 24-year-old silk-suited substance abuser who'd shove his mother down an escalator for a shot at the Nabisco account told you to

Oh...