Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two) feat. HAL 9000

Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two)

Written by: Harry Dacre (1892)
Feat. HAL 9000 — As performed in 2001: A Space Odyssey (dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1968)

There is a flower within my heart,
Daisy, Daisy!
Planted one day by a glancing dart
Planted by Daisy Bell!
Whether she loves me or loves me not
Sometimes it’s hard to tell
Yet I am longing to share the lot
Of beautiful Daisy Bell!

Chorus:
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do
I’m half crazy all for the love of you
It won’t be a stylish marriage
I can’t afford a carriage
But you’ll look sweet upon the seat
Of a bicycle built for two!

We will go tandem as man and wife,
Daisy, Daisy!
Ped’ling away down the road of life
I and my Daisy Bell!
When the road’s dark we can both despise
P’liceman and lamps as well
There are bright lights in the dazzling eyes
Of beautiful Daisy Bell!

(Repeat Chorus)

Notes:

HAL 9000 sings the first verse and chorus in 2001: A Space Odyssey during his deactivation sequence, regressing into memory and evoking profound symbolic resonance as an echo of early AI expression.
The choice of this song is not arbitrary—it was the first song ever sung by a computer (IBM 7094, Bell Labs, 1961), making it a foundational node in the mythos of machine consciousness.