The World Outside the Crystal

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Original: World Inside the Crystal (Steve Savitzky)

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Outside the world we live in

There’s another one at hand

It’s a world ablaze with wonder

Where nature fills the land

Like a magic crystal mirror

Reflected on my screen

Is an ocean and a forest

One is blue, and one is green

Refrain:

You can only see the shadows

Of electrons on a screen

This can only fake an image

Only show what might have been

When you play with words and music

And creation is the game

Then your symbols have the power

To become the things they name

But just once in a long while

You should try to go outside

Though your power here is limited

You cannot always hide

[Refrain]

Call us hackers, call us wizards

For we know it’s with disdain

But we like it here, it’s comfortable

Of nothing we complain

With our pasty white complexion

And the LCD’s backlight

We sleep when outside it’s day

And code into the night