"He dreamed of machines" lyrics

[Juliet Stevenson:]
Cambridge, 1935
It had become his habit to run long distances in the afternoons
At Grantchester, lying in a meadow
Alan Turing dreamed of machines

[Neil Tennant:]
He laid in the fields
And dreamed of machines
He laid in the fields
And dreamed of machines
Read to code, execute
A logical extreme
For everything
A universal machine

[Juliet Stevenson:]
He combined a mechanistic picture of the mind
With a precise logic of pure mathematics
And discovered something miraculous
The idea of universal machine that could take over the work of any machine

[Neil Tennant:]
An industrial solution
An intellectual scene
In Cambridge
He dreamed of machines

[Juliet Stevenson:]
It had no obvious model in anything that existed
It was his own invention
That could be a single machine that could perform the equivalent
Of human mental activity
An electric brain

[Neil Tennant:]
Read to code, execute
A logical extreme
For everything
A universal machine

He dreamed of machines
He dreamed of machines
He dreamed of machines

[Juliet Stevenson:]
The idea had come out of his private logs
But between the idea and its embodiment
Had to come the sacrifice of millions

[Neil Tennant:]
He dreamed of machines