Vocabulary Words:
access / companion / crave / document / escalate / hazy / mischief / oasis / suspend / visual
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Song Lyrics
It’s the Web; it’s a game of cat and mouse,
It’s the Web; click-click goes Katherine’s mouse.
It’s the Web, and you better watch out,
’Cause the Web has you trapped in its madness now!
I knew a girl named Katherine,
Who spent all her time alone, with no companions,
No one to hang with, but she seemed
Happy enough just with her computer screens.
All day every day she craved games,
Wanted them so bad, she needed to play.
She would feel the need, not the need to get away,
No, the need to play, the need to escalate,
And to increase the intensity every day.
So many games, so many roles to play,
For so many days that her vision was hazy,
She couldn’t see straight, then she went a little crazy.
She figured anything that her eyes could see,
Any visual scene, must be reality.
Katherine wasn’t living a second life,
She was living a 22nd life on 20 different sites!
Hook
Young Katherine didn’t know exactly who she was
Until she got home and booted her computers up.
And then she knew just fine; she was on top of it,
She was written like a Web page or a document.
She was a profile, a dozen home pages,
MySpace, Facebook was an oasis,
A place where she was safe to be herself,
But I wondered how good this could be for her health.
So I got it in my mind to do a little mischief,
To make a little trouble, yeah to be a little twisted.
So one day when she was gone, I logged on,
And changed her passwords, so now when she tries
To go online, it’s like, “Access Denied.”
She can’t get inside like half of her sites,
So now she can have a life, and suspend
Her bad Web habit, which had to end.
And what about her games and her profiles?
I control them now, ha ha, no doubt.
So now when you’re online thinking it’s Katherine,
It’s actually her little brother Ray that you chat with!
But now my sister Katherine comes outside,
We play Wiffle ball, took our bikes for a ride.
Smiling with the wind in her hair, she was like,
“What’s this game called?” I said, “Real life!”
Hook