Translator Batez: Once there was a time you needed transcripts,
And triplicates and duplicates to log,
Translator Bentz: By letter, bone, and tar and,
As the time slipped,
Stenographers and upstrikers and slogs
Both: Yes, it was a sorry time for chalking,
Every foot and head had to be drawn.
Translator Batez: But now we have machines to write the talking,
Translator Bentz: The days of breaking hands with words are gone,
Both: See how we dictate of you!
Translate for you!
Cutting conversation,
Every tongue in harmonation!
And transmit to you,
Make writ of you!
Spinning mandrels,
Innovating ways to make you talk!
Translator Bentz: Lift the tube and mouthpiece from the gurdy,
Aim the dictator against your pout.
Translator Batez: Depress the metal treadle,
Translator Bentz: With your derbies
Translator Batez: Oh, how the waxy barrel spins about
Both: Beat your jaws and start the duplication
A needle traces every err and tone
Translator Bentz: Listen back to your domestication,
Translator Batez: A hearing!
Translator Bentz: And a sentence!
Translator Batez: Through the phones!
Both: See how we dictate of you!
Translate for you!
Cutting conversation,
Every tongue in harmonation!
And transmit to you,
Make writ of you!
Spinning mandrels,
Innovating ways to make you talk!
Dictate of you!
Translate for you!
Cutting conversation,
Every tongue in harmonation!
And transmit to you,
Make writ of you!
Spinning mandrels,
Innovating ways to make you…
Translator Batez: Finally, the shaving engine cycles.
Translator Bentz: Whittling the wax down to the skin,
So the cylinder can be recycled,
Translator Batez: To try your testimony once again,
Both: Bolt your words and measure your intentions,
Rid yourself of every hiss and hoarse
Translator Bentz: Fidelity's the gristle of invention
Both: Capturing
Translator Bentz: Our voices
Translator Batez: For the court!
Both: See how we dictate of you!
Translate for you!
Cutting conversation,
Every tongue in harmonation!
And transmit to you,
Make writ of you!
Spinning mandrels Spinning mandrels Spinning mandrels Innovating ways to make you talk!