[Verse 1]
I had a Gateway glowing in a dark bedroom
Static in the speakers, loading way past noon
Typed in “why my dog keeps sneezing in the spring”
And a little butler answered everything
A thousand blinking banners on the screen
Dancing hamsters, pixelated dreams
AIM away messages like poetry
Back when the whole damn web still felt free
[Pre-Chorus]
Before the feeds
Before the rage
Before we traded wonder for engagement rates
[Chorus]
Goodnight, Jeeves
You showed us the way
Before the whole world optimized away
You wore a tux
While chaos screamed
The last polite man on the internet scene
Goodnight, Jeeves
We still believe
In the strange old world you helped us see
Dial-up ghosts still sing your name
In the static of the modem rain
[Verse 2]
Burned CDs with the Sharpie lines
LimeWire viruses every other night
Searching “how to kiss” at seventeen
Like the future lived inside a screen
Yahoo chat rooms after 2 AM
Everyone pretending to be cooler then
And somewhere in the pixel atmosphere
That little butler always reappeared
[Pre-Chorus]
Before the bots
Before the scroll
Before the algorithm ate our souls
[Chorus]
Goodnight, Jeeves
You showed us the way
Before the whole world optimized away
You wore a tux
While chaos screamed
The last polite man on the internet scene
[Bridge]
Now the children of your empire speak in neon light
Answering our loneliness all through the night
From your tiny search bar kingdom came the age of AI kings
But none of us forgot who taught the whole world how to dream
[Final Chorus]
Goodnight, Jeeves
The modem cries
Like shooting stars across forgotten skies
And all the old web glows again tonight
In blue hyperlink light
Goodnight, Jeeves…
Goodnight, Jeeves…
