The Ethernet-The Tangent

[ti:The Ethernet] [ar:The Tangent] [al:Not As Good As the Book] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Ethernet - The Tangent [00:37.19]As night comes to the city [00:40.55]She's working hard on her computer [00:45.75] [00:50.84]She takes her work and bundles it up now [00:54.18] [00:55.24]And then she shrugs her shoulders [00:59.75] [01:04.88]Slowly plods her way downstairs [01:08.28]Drops the key off [01:09.42] [01:10.31]Starts the motor [01:14.23] [01:18.58]Saves her life on tiny disks [01:21.92] [01:24.36]They're not backed up [01:25.78] [01:26.50]But she'll take that risk [01:28.85] [01:32.56]Give or take an hour or two [01:35.47]He'll be heading in the same direction [01:40.95] [01:45.80]Swapping one desktop for another in the search for his reflection [01:54.15] [01:59.86]Figures dance before their eyes [02:02.93]But keep the world outside at distance [02:07.23] [02:13.30]Help to keep outside the night [02:16.90]Four floors up he knows she's gone [02:19.99]He felt the movement in the ether [02:23.66]With the city spread below [02:26.61]He calls to her across suburbia [02:31.43]The city will not carry his voice tonight [02:38.35] [02:44.26]Back at home the keys still click to the rhythm of their isolation [02:53.29] [02:57.39]The flicker on the VDU's got the same old shade of grey frustration [03:06.93] [03:11.89]Both the desktops look the same in the quiet of their bedrooms [03:20.33] [03:25.48]Help to keep outside the night [03:28.22] [03:28.79]Four floors up he knows she's gone [03:31.88]He felt the movement in the ether [03:35.88]With the city spread below [03:38.64]He calls to her across suburbia [03:46.95] [03:49.11]Though the tiny icon lights up green in an empty room but goes unseen [03:56.30]She can't hear his hifi Joni singing [04:00.49]Everything comes and goes [04:02.95]Pleasure moves on too early [04:05.80] [04:06.64]Trouble leaves too slow not tonight [04:13.34] [04:16.12]He never knows if he'll be found [04:19.11] [04:19.71]Running for the underground [04:22.43]But she looks for him in there [04:25.11] [04:30.08]Scanners trace him through the park [04:33.34]A red dot moving through the dark [04:36.54]She waits for him in there [04:40.39] [04:44.35]All the anger all the pain [04:47.16] [04:47.67]Surfaces inside again [04:51.12] [04:57.20]All the passion all the sex [04:59.97]All the heat of being [05:02.29]Cyber ex [05:03.69] [06:17.46]Figures dance before their eyes [06:20.60]But keep the world outside at distance [06:26.74] [06:30.97]She's waiting on the Ethernet [06:34.63] [06:38.10]But he's not connected yet [06:43.94] [06:44.67]Four floors up he knows she's gone [06:48.13]He felt the movement in the ether [06:51.38] [06:51.99]With the city spread below [06:54.72]He calls to her across suburbia [06:59.14]The city will not carry his voice tonight [07:11.84] [07:12.54]Four floors up he knows she's gone [07:15.58]He felt the movement in the ether [07:19.20]With the city spread below [07:22.31]Be calls to her across suburbia [07:26.02]Pleasure moves on too early [07:28.57] [07:29.42]Trouble leaves too slow tonight tonight tonight tonight [07:38.85] [08:07.30]Everything comes and goes