Off - Frightened Rabbit

We’ll have no telephones here

Just a gentle mouth to a smitten ear

No technology here

Such heady chemistry can’t be engineered

We’ll use no binary code

No pixilated template to contain us both

Ignore the scurrying roads

We’ll stay right here and want for nothing more

And as the earth eats itself, swallows us whole

We will set out ourselves and switch everything off

No machinery here

No chain smoking factories with their monotone sneer

There’s no technology here

No damning indictments or digital sin

So can’t we both disappear?

Run away and play dead like I did last year

We’ll need nobody else at all

Sheltered and happy in our candlelit hole

As the earth eats itself, swallows us whole

We can lie here hidden, pull the wires from the wall

As the earth eats itself, swallows us whole

We will set out ourselves and switch everything off