Golden Fleece
Mail-From: : K.KANEF created at 10-Jun-82 18:05:26
Date: : 10 Jun 1982 1805-PDT
From: : K.Kanef at SU-LOTS (Bob Kanefsky)
Subject: : Golden Fleece
To: : Songs at SU-LOTS
Parody-of: : "Golden Thread" (from Holly Near's FIRE IN THE RAIN album)
Such a rush is going through my body!
You are so far across the net.
Tender words run through my tty line.
I will get closer to you yet.
It's hard for me to ponder long
On every friendly byte,
For how can I touch you the way I want to touch you
When I intend to stay home and append to my program
For the rest of the night?
My keys are stuck. I've lost control.
Your thoughts are so close to mine!
We share a craving and a craft, my friend.
We two are walking a fine line.
Is it hard for you to ponder long
On every loving byte?
Oh, how can you touch me the way you want to touch me
When you intend to stay home and append to your program
For the rest of the night?
define CHORUS <
A hacker's love is like a golden fleece:
It can swap in and out, in and out,
Oh, transparently. I know this is true:
I couldn't stop hacking for the life of me,
And I do love it so, mm I do love it so.
>
CHORUS
But lots of code is missing from its body:
My program should be able to hack the net!
Fresh ideas flow through my weary mind...
I have't finished with it yet.
But it's hard for me to ponder long
On every buggy byte,
For how can I hack it the way I want to hack it
When I intend to leave home and befriend a new lover
By the end of the night?
CHORUS
But
repeat 2,<
You can't complete a program. No,
You can't complete a program.
When one version's done,
You'll write a better one.
And then start a better better one.
>
Oh, run, run, be done by three.
It's gotta fly, run, run, efficiently.
[S]He's lying next to me. *
Sexuality, let go of me,
So I can keep on hacking!
(repeat and fade out)