¨Ï 1985 Steve Savitsky
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Am C
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Beside the world we live in
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G C Em
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Apart from day and night
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Am
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Is a world ablaze with wonder
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Em Am
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Of magic and delight
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Like a magic crystal mirror
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My computer lets me know
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Of the other world within it
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Where my body cannot go
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Dm
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Chorus: You can only see the shadows
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Am G Am
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Of electrons on a screen
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Dm Am
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From the world inside the crystal
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Em Am
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That no human eyes have seen
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The computer is a gateway
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To a world where magic rules
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Where the only law is logic
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Webs of words the only tools
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Where we play with words and symbols
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And creation is the game
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For our symbols have the power
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To become the things they name
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Chorus
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Now you who do not know this world
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Its dangers or its joys
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You take the things we build there
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And you use them as your toys
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You trust them with your fortunes
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Or let them guard your lives
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From the chaos of creation
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Just their final form survives
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Chorus
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Call us hackers, call us wizards
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With derision or respect
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Still our souls are marked by something
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That your labels can't affect
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Though our words are touched by strangeness
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There is little we can say
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You would only hear the echo
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Of a music far away
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Chorus
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World Inside The Crystal
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| Kathy Mar |
