Code Turned Back

TTTO “The Bow’s Turned Back”, Heather Alexander.

Dana wrote a beautiful song to the tune, in Hebrew, called <a href=”http://www.fuzzy-fish.com/wordpress-he/archives/328”>Ad E’laich</a>. I translated it into English.

When the night turns lonely, I think of you only

As I sit and stare at the screen

Your bugs astound me, like drugs confound me,

As confused as I ever have been

It is getting late – oh my god, it’s eight

And the office is empty and dark

But I’ll still remain, and compile again,

“We’re alone now,” we both remark

[Chorus]

For the threads are runnin’, the code is cunnin’,

And the bits are zero and one

And the bytes are shiftin’, the code’s upliftin’

The hours so quickly are gone

For the work so hard, you can’t disregard

One more colon, or half of such

In my dreams, you tease, as the deadlocks freeze

And I shudder awake with a touch

You become so cold, as the programs fold

And the shutdown’s sequence complete

But at dawn, next day, with the sun’s first ray

Once again, we both know, we will meet

If they say a machine from all feelings is clean,

I’ll not know if to cry or to laugh

For I know you well, I can surely tell

You feel more than humanity’s half

You are new and fresh, you’re not bone and flesh

You have left me with nary a choice

I need you to live, may the gods forgive

None will cry and I will rejoice

As the voltage risin’, and I’m revisin’,

Myself, my being, my all

As my programs are being installed

The chains of the flesh disappear

In this dream of an engineer

[Chorus]