We see strange flashing lights
Deep in the dark, dead of night
Hear loud, weird noises
A lone, raised, panicked voice
Shapes cast, thrown onto shades
Melding unlike minds
A burst of blind confusion
Two entities violently fused
We hear he built a new machine
We hear he built a new machine
Disintegrates a man at A
Reintegrates him at point B
Who would elect to chance their lot
Who would elect to chance their lot
Aside from towering intellect
What does he have, that we have not
The body of a man, the head of a fly
Views our simple world with compound eyes
Extricate subject X from Y and Z
Where Y is fly's body, where Z is fly's head
Encode, modulate, transmit
Receive, demodulate, decode
Is the actual soul transported
Or virgin flesh stamped from the mould
We hear he built a startling new machine
A fascinating new machine
Scrambles man and not a man at A
Conjoins them at point B
Unseen, unwanted, through the open door
A small and tragic something flew
Resulting in projected, fractured two
The body of a man, the head of a fly
Views our simple world with compound eyes
Extract X from subjects Y and Z
From man with fly's body, from man with fly's head
A teleportation mathematician
With the murderous brain of a fly
An accidentally modified body plan
He's pretty white for a fly guy
Encode, modulate, transmit
Receive, demodulate, decode
Is the anima transported
Or virgin flesh struck from the mould
We hear his devastating new device
Updated and revised
Can shake and bake man and mistake at B
To disentangle at point A
The body of a man, the head of a fly
Views our simple world with compound eyes
Extract X from subjects Y and Z
From man with fly's body, from man with fly's head