Virtual Party ([email protected])

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"

The funny thing 'bout 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
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
The 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!

Wah-wah-way-oh
We're invited to a virtual party tonight... (You try it!)
Wah-wah-way-oh
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?

Wah-wah-way-oh
You're invited to a virtual party tonight
(What did you say now?)
Wah-wah-way-oh
You're invited to a virtual party tonight
(One more time now)
Wah-wah-way-oh
You're invited to a virtual party tonight
Ready or not here comes the 21st century
You're invited to a virtual party tonight