Virtual Party (Lifelines Live Version)

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
Aah.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, all night

Well, well, well
We're invited to a virtual party tonight (you try it)
Well, well, well
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 unbelievable, 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... yeah'

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? Whoa

Well, well, well
You're invited to a virtual party tonight (What did you say now?)
Well, well, well
You're invited to a virtual party tonight (One more time now)
Well, well, well
You're invited to a virtual party tonight (One more one more one)
(Ready or not here comes the 21st century)
You're invited to a virtual party tonight