Paroles de la chanson The trial par Pet Shop Boys

[Juliet Stevenson]
1951
His fascination with computers had a complementary aspect
He was particularly self-conscious of things that other people accepted without thinking
Thinking and doing, the logical and the physical
It was the problem of his theory and the problem of his life

[Neil Tennant]
Can you think what I feel?
Can you feel what I think?
Can we sleep together as lovers?
Can we think and feel the same thing?

[Juliet Stevenson]
As he walked along Oxford Road, Manchester, he caught the eye a young man
Arnold Murray was nineteen
Currently unemployed and very hard up
Alan invited him to lunch
Explained that he worked on the electronic brain
And asked him to come to his home at the weekend
They did not have much in common to talk about, but found links
Alan talked about astronomy, played a tune on the violin
And let Arnold have a try

[Juliet Stevenson]
"Can you think what I feel? Can you feel what I think?"
He said with terrific emphasis at one point

Alan made it clear that he wanted them to sleep together as lovers
And this they did

[Neil Tennant]
Can you think what I feel?
Can you feel what I think?
Can we sleep together as lovers?
Can we think and feel the same thing?

[Juliet Stevenson]
Everything had changed
The Manchester bells were ringing for the death of King George VI
The new Queen Elizabeth flew back from Kenya
And it was on that very evening that the detectives paid a call
It had not taken them long to detect Alan Turing's crime

The case was heard on 31st of March, 1952

[Neil Tennant]
Regina versus Turing
Alan Mathison Turing
Being a male person was party to the commission of an act
Of gross indecency
With Arnold Murray, a male person

[Juliet Stevenson]
The verdict quivered between the old and the new dispensations
And came down for the new, the scientific alternative to prison

[Juliet Stevenson]
He was placed on probation

With a condition that he submit for treatment by a duly qualified medical practitioner at the Manchester Royal Infirmary
It was chemical castration
Never far below the surface lay the highly traditional equation between sodomy, heresy, and treachery
A government minister said the homosexual is now automatically considered a security risk

[Juliet Stevenson]
Alan wrote, "Turing believes machines think
Turing lies with men
Therefore machines do not think"