Random Number Generation is a song from the stage production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. The full version of this song does not appear in the movie, but it can be heard playing on MTV in the background when Yitzak and Hedwig are talking in their motel room, before Tommy Gnosis comes on with his number one hit single, Tear Me Down.
Like a good amount of the music in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, this song has a punkish feel to it. It is a bit harsher than many of the other songs, mostly due to the strong eastern European accent Yitzak sings with, and the anger and intensity e delivers throughout the production.
This song appears on the Original Cast Recording, but is not found on the Motion Picture Soundtrack.
Random Number Generation
Performed by
Miriam Shor, lyrics by
Stephen Trask, music by
Cheater.
all our
feelings and thoughts
expressed in ones and in
oughts
in endless
spiraling chains
you can't
decode or
explain
cause you are so
analog
god dog I eye I god dog
we're the random number generation
we are
random number generated
we are
random numbers
in the regime of the
solid state
wheels spin when you
iterate
k is
x squared minus one
but .54321
when
x is taken times two
that's when
we're coming for you
we're the random number generation
we are
random number generated
we are
random numbers
Mister Little started
something huge
Iggy Pop Iggy Stooge
all the
children shout out,
hey here we are
we're the random number generation
we are
random number generated
we are
random numbers