Arthur Isaacson - Beyond the Screen lyrics

You have formed, of me, a picture Based on logic without stricture A contemporary, in your view Perhaps my words you'll soon eschew I think that I should tell you now Although you think me young, somehow That I might be your elder, ow! And rate a sweeping graceful bow For all you know I ancient are With cane and limp to venture far One hundred fifty years or more Perhaps a thousand lived before It's just these new most modern skins Constrict my mind as I blend in Best the language, acceptance win Conceal the truth, my story spin Highlander perhaps, what do you think? No! I've not had much to drink I say with smile and crinkled wink Or would you rather a cyber link? To where? You say but don't believe I know you know what e'er conceived Could come to be, you're not relieved? An alien form, Would I deceive? How do you know, what you do know? It comes in bytes, it smoothly flows Could I be close behind you there? Or in another galaxy, fair? What you see is only light Where I am is out of sight Or what I am, see your plight? Have I instilled a sense of fright? Your machine is telling you That I exist out here in truth But what if your machine et al Really has the name of HAL Perhaps your world does not exist But only is my sly Matrix How will you know and then to fix? If what I say is real or tricks What is the test that you must try? To keep you mind from going awry Better hurry, or bye and bye We'll shut the power, the time draws nigh.