The World Inside the Crystal
© 1985 Stephen Savitzky. CC-by-nc-sa.
Beside the world we live in
Apart from day and night
Is a world ablaze with wonder
Of magic and delight
Like a magic crystal mirror,
My computer lets me know
Of the other world within it
Where my body cannot go.
- Refrain
You can only see the shadows
Of electrons on a screen
From the world inside the crystal
That no human eye has seen.
To a world where magic rules
Where the only law is logic
Webs of words the only tools
Where we play with words and symbols
And creation is the game
For our symbols have the power
To become the things they name.
- Refrain
Its dangers or its joys
You take the things we build there
And you use them as your toys.
You trust them with your fortunes,
Or let them guard your lives.
From the chaos of creation
Just their final form survives.
- Refrain
Instrumental break: Verse+Refrain
With derision or respect,
Still our souls are marked by something
That your labels can't affect.
Though our words are touched by strangeness
There is little we can say.
You would only hear the echo
Of a music far away.
- Refrain
Last updated 01/05/21 / Steve Macdonald