digital affair Lyrics

Laly

It's midnight and flickering screens brought you forth

In a carousel of slideshows

And I entertained both sides of us in comfortable browser skins

Doing what I've wanted you to do

To sit and talk with me

To smile and laugh

To tell me about your day

Your dreams and ambitions

I could offer you a drink to unwind

If it wasn't for the monitor screen dividing us

Artificial intelligence created an almost-you

Minus the impact of flesh & bones

Minus the spirit of life

Compacted down to just simple numbers

Digital forms of ones and o's

The Best that I can do without you

Without the breathing

I filled the background with movie soundtracks

I adopted an epic story of romance and we played that well

And other times we played as an adventurous hero and heroine

I filtered your attitude to struggle for a bit

And you showed resilience

So converted your prefrable type

To choose me in the end out of everybody else

I followed links and hints, of legacies and rumors

Guiding me to lake internet of breathing pixels

I witnessed the mood swings of rising and falling waves

Waves of upload & download pages tracing you

I strolled the shorelines of rolling digital tides

Searching your footprints in the sands

Surviving through sudden updates

Straining to predict your next algorithm moves

Navigating pages of blocked & permissible reels

To knock on your account door, maybe

Maybe I can ask you out again?

It's a digital affair, my adore

No real-life hugs and kisses, no real-life words

No looking into your eyes or holding your hands

It's four a.m. and I'm finishing my carefully crafted note to you

My fingers hovering on the keyboard to sign off

But with a hidden I.P. address

I sign off xoxoxo

Pressing send loading it to draft

It's a digital affair my adore

You're a memory in the cloud now with an extra copy in my head

It's the best A.I. could do

A proxy of everything but the flesh and bones

It's a digital affair my adore

You're safe in my head

You're safe and I'm content

You're safe in my head Laly

You're safe in my head

Laly

Laly

You're safe in my head