By Jemima Pereira (webmaster@jemimap.cjb.net)
© January 2003
Codes: filk
Rating: G
Series: Star Trek: Voyager

You're not a true filker until you've filked "The Boxer."

This parody of "The Boxer" by Simon and Garfunkle is protected as such by the copyright laws of the United States of America.

I am just a Borg drone
Though my role is manifold;
I once offered up resistance
Like a creature ruled by instinct -
Such are humanoids
All meat and vein
Now this drone does what she has to do
And disregards the pain.
(She'll comply...)

When they took my home
And my family,
I was no more than a girl
Kidnapped by metallic strangers
To a silent maturation chamber
Drowning, scared,
Left to grow,
Taken out when I was finished,
Sent to check a manifold,
Seeing all the places
Only drones can go.

She'll comply,
You'll comply and he'll comply,
She'll comply,
Every living, breathing thing yes it will comply...

An assimilation chamber -
I'm assigned another job
But I see none like me,
Just an endless flow of those
Considered worthiest.
I cut and pare,
But sometimes one looks familiar and
I let them out of there.

She'll comply,
You'll comply and he'll comply,
She'll comply,
Every living, breathing thing yes it will comply...

And the years pass by like seasons on
A world I know is gone -
I am home
In a unimatrix lead by
One who once was me.
We expand,
Taking homes.

On a Borg cube reigns the Borg Queen,
Nexus to a billion brains,
From a nation long forgotten
By all save those who cut them down,
Re-engineered their children
To know neither fear nor pain,
Gave a number to their species
Of which only drones remain.

She'll comply,
You'll comply and he'll comply,
She'll comply,
Every living, breathing thing yes it will comply.
You'll comply and he'll comply,
She'll comply,
Every living, breathing thing yes it will comply.
You'll comply and he'll comply,
She'll comply,
Every living, breathing thing yes it will comply.
You'll comply and he'll comply,
She'll comply,
Every living, breathing thing yes it will comply.
You'll comply and he'll comply,
She'll comply,
Every living, breathing thing yes it will comply.
You'll comply and he'll comply,
She'll comply,
Every living, breathing thing yes it will comply.
You'll comply and he'll comply,
She'll comply,
Every living, breathing thing yes it will comply.
You'll comply and he'll comply,
She'll comply,
Every living, breathing thing yes it will comply...