It's 11 o'clock in the evening - I'm barefoot -
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And I'm logged-on to the INTERNET.
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I usually pickup my e-mail in the afternoon
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But on weekends sometimes I forget...
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I yell down the hall to the bedroom, "Honey, I'll be right there..."
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She says "that's ok, dear, I got a brand new book here and
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I'm not going anywhere".
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A funny thing about a couple when a couple of years've gone by.
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You don't talk; you think you know each other so well you don't have to try...
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you take for granted what you used to call enchanted just a while ago...
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ah..when does a mystery turn into history?
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I don't know...
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Anyway, I got another meg of data coming down the line;
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A Wall Street profile...spreadsheet from a friend of mine...
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Up on the screen pops a little green box says 'click on me'.
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Somewhere I swear Alice in Wonderland's callin'...
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I look up at the clock (not as late as I thought: only quarter to one).
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Download's finished, I could take five minutes and have me some fun.
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The invitation's from a web location in Hong Kong.
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It's already started, this virtual party runs all night long!
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I say all night?
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We're invited to a virtual party tonight...(you try it)
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You're invited to a virtual party tonight...
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There's computers in the microwave, computers in the automobile, computers in the phone.
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Oh and even my wife who used to tell me to 'get a life'
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has got a computer of her own.
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I spend so much time saving time I can't find any time to spend ...
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I've taped sixteen episodes of "Star Trek" but when am I gonna show them?!
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It's un-believable, must be sixty, seventy people here at the party site.
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Icons, Avatars, Images of Movie Stars surfing tonight...
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Well I'm looking for a chat when I get a note that
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says 'ya wanna go...to a place more private? I kinda think you'll like it...'
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I say 'I...yi...'
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She says her name is 'Mata Hari' and that she's particularly fond of older men...
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Well maybe so, maybe not, maybe she's a guy that's got this urge to pretend...
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And then it occurs to me, I don't need this fantasy...
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after all, everything I'd be looking for, I've got and even more,
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sleeping at the end of the hall...
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I shut down the box, still it's three o'clock by the time I get to bed...
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I lift up the covers; snuggle next to my lover; find a note there instead...
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it says "the book was dumb, logged on, found a message from Hong Kong...
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for a virtual party (I'm goin' as 'mata hari') may be all night long..."
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I say all night?
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Oh, Oh, you're invited to a virtual party tonight...
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(what did you say now...?)
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Oh, Oh, you're invited to a virtual party tonight...
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(one more time now)
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Oh, Oh, you're invited to a virtual party tonight...
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(one more one more one more)
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Ready or not here comes the 21st century
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You're invited to a virtual party tonight...
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VIRTUAL PARTY ([email protected])
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| Peter, Paul & Mary |
