Virtual Party - Peter, Paul and Mary

It’s 11 o’clock in the evening — I’m barefoot —

And I’m logged-on to the INTERNET.

I usually pickup my e-mail in the afternoon

But on weekends sometimes I forget…

I yell down the hall to the bedroom, «Honey, I’ll be right there…»

She says «that's ok, dear, I got a brand new book here and

I’m not going anywhere».

A funny thing about a couple when a couple of years’ve gone by.

You don’t talk;

you think you know each other so well you don’t have to try…

you take for granted what you used to call enchanted just a while ago…

ah.when does a mystery turn into history?

I don’t know…

Anyway, I got another meg of data coming down the line;

A Wall Street profile… spreadsheet from a friend of mine…

Up on the screen pops a little green box says 'click on me'.

Somewhere I swear Alice in Wonderland’s callin'…

I look up at the clock (not as late as I thought: only quarter to one).

Download’s finished, I could take five minutes and have me some fun.

The invitation’s from a web location in Hong Kong.

It’s already started, this virtual party runs all night long!

I say all night?

We’re invited to a virtual party tonight…(you try it)

You’re invited to a virtual party tonight…

There’s computers in the microwave, computers in the automobile,

computers in the phone.

Oh and even my wife who used to tell me to 'get a life'

has got a computer of her own.

I spend so much time saving time I can’t find any time to spend …

I’ve taped sixteen episodes of «Star Trek» but when am I gonna show them?!

It’s un-believable, must be sixty, seventy people here at the party site.

Icons, Avatars, Images of Movie Stars surfing tonight…

Well I’m looking for a chat when I get a note that

says 'ya wanna go… to a place more private?

I kinda think you’ll like it…'

I say 'I… yi…'

She says her name is 'Mata Hari' and that she’s particularly fond of older men.

Well maybe so, maybe not, maybe she’s a guy that’s got this urge to pretend…

And then it occurs to me, I don’t need this fantasy…

after all, everything I’d be looking for, I’ve got and even more,

sleeping at the end of the hall…

I shut down the box, still it’s three o’clock by the time I get to bed…

I lift up the covers;

snuggle next to my lover;

find a note there instead…

it says «the book was dumb, logged on, found a message from Hong Kong…

for a virtual party (I'm goin' as 'mata hari') may be all night long…»

I say all night?

Oh, Oh, you’re invited to a virtual party tonight…

(what did you say now???)

Oh, Oh, you’re invited to a virtual party tonight…

(one more time now)

Oh, Oh, you’re invited to a virtual party tonight…

(one more one more one more)

Ready or not here comes the 21st century

You’re invited to a virtual party tonight…