Every hero needs a theme song, an ode to his greatness, a bard’s tale that explains his role in the world. Elon Musk finally has his, even if it’s more melancholy fable than rah-rah rouser.

The bard in question is Matt Sharp, vocalist and frontman for The Rentals, who came to fame as Weezer’s bassist. The song is “Elon Musk Is Making Me Sad,” and you can hear it via the Soundcloud link below. It tells the story of two boys growing up in the 1980s, both children of divorce and of the middle class, both of whom receive a Commodore VIC-20 home computer. One is Musk; the other is Sharp (or at least a version of him).

Sharp recounts the boys’ mixture of friendship and rivalry, as Musk taps into his ability with computers and his ambition:

I used mine to make fake I.D.’s and buy beer in junior high

While my foe studied every bit of that 8bit whore

By the chorus, Musk, two years younger than Sharp, is on his way to the Iron Man inspiration he is today: “Like a rocket ship he blasted by, To incredible heights.”

Cause, Elon’s making me so sad cause I calculated the math of our birthdates

And I had a head start out of the start gate, 2 years plus 86 days, but that all went to waste

Oh, Elon you’re making me so sad cause the race that I wanted to have was not much of a race

And I tried, Love! For a moment, I thrived, Love! But could not keep my stride up to keep pace

“The song itself is not a tribute to Musk,” Sharp says. It was one of many songs he wrote over the last year and a half, in the wake of his father’s death, many of them with science fiction themes. “I was trying to get off this blue marble as quick as I could, I think,” he says. And you can only think about leaving Earth for so long before Musk—the man of electric cars and hyperloops and rocket travel and life on Mars—enters the picture.

And so Sharp imagined a world in which he and Musk had grown up together—he even compiled an album comparing photos of them at similar ages. (FWIW, the real life Sharp had a Coleco Adam home computer, a lesser version of the Commodore Vic-20. And yes, he used it to make fake IDs for his middle school friends. Which isn’t not innovative.)

Despite the song’s title, Musk is the foil in this story, the character against which the hero is measured. But at least it’s more complimentary than Heather Anne Campbell’s song, in which Musk destroys the Earth to take revenge on the bullies who beat him up as a kid.

Here are the lyrics from the song, which features Matt Sharp, Nick Zinner, and The Gentle Assassins Choir, and was mixed by Dave Fridmann and Matt Estep:

Let me tell you a tale about a rivalry

Grab an Eagle Number Two and keep the score

There were these two young boys that came from average broken homes

With all the luxuries the middle class affords

Oh, Lord...

Elon’s making me so sad cause I calculated the math of our birthdates

And I had a head start out of the start gate, 2 years plus 86 days, but that all went to waste

Oh, Elon you’re making me so sad cause the race that I wanted to have was not much of a race

And I tried, Love! And for a moment I thrived, Love! But could not keep my stride up to keep pace

But for a second, there’s no question, I had the lead in ninety-five

I mismanaged my advantage; like a rocket ship he blasted by

To incredible heights, incredible heights

In nineteen eighty-two, on Christmas day

Santa gave us each a brand-new Commodore

I used mine to make fake I.D.’s and buy beer in junior high

While my foe studied every bit of that 8bit whore

Are you keeping score?

Cause, Elon’s making me so sad cause I calculated the math of our birthdates

And I had a head start out of the start gate, 2 years plus 86 days, but that all went to waste

Oh, Elon you’re making me so sad cause the race that I wanted to have was not much of a race

And I tried, Love! For a moment, I thrived, Love! But could not keep my stride up to keep pace

But for a second, there’s no question, I had the lead in ninety-five

But the small ambitions of a musician, I could not keep my eye on the prize

I watched him fly by, to incredible heights

When it’s time to say goodbye, what will they write on my tombstone?

Just that last little line from the Happy Days Video

Not so good, Jonze

Hey, Elon! (Hey, Elon!) I don’t know what I have become (Hey, Elon!)

I need someone to help change my fate

I think you can save me! (Can you save me? I think you can save me!)

Do you think you can save me? Do you have the power to help me escape?

Oh, Elon! Let me be the first one, of your new civilization to be saved

Yes! I’ll try, Love! I swear to you I can thrive, Love!

This time I’ll keep my stride up and keep pace

Only you can change my Q-score! Make me the first one out of that door

First boots out on the Martian Floor to proclaim...

Oh, that Elon! Sent me all the way, Son, a hundred thirty-nine million miles away!

Elon! Send me away; send me away! Elon, send me away (Tell me I'm saved!)

Elon! Tell me I’m saved; tell me I’m saved! Elon tell me I’m saved (Send me away!)

You have the power to save, you have the power to save me!

You have the power to save, you have the power to save me!

And then I will say, I went to Mars and won the race! Yeah, I will say, I took first-place!

Oh, I rode that Old Heart of Gold the whole way and in the end, hey! I won the race!

Oh, oh! Elon! Let me win the race; win the race! Oh, Elon! Let me take first place!

Elon! Tell me I am saved; I am saved! Elon tell me I am saved!

You have the power to save; you have the power to save me!

(Elon, tell me I am saved!)

You have the power to save; you have the power to save me!

(Tell me I am saved!)

You have the power to save me! You have the power to save me! (Send me away!)

You have the power to save!