The Ethernet Songtext
von The Tangent

As night comes to the city, she′s working hard on her computer
She takes her work and bundles it up now, and then she shrugs her shoulders
Slowly plods her way downstairs, drops the key off, starts the motor
She saves her life on tiny disks
They're not backed up, but she′ll take that risk

Give or take an hour or two, he'll be heading in the same direction
Swapping one desktop for another in the search for his reflection
Figures dance before their eyes, but keep the world outside at distance
Help to keep outside the night

Four floors up he knows she's gone, he felt the movement in the ether
With the city spread below, he calls to her across suburbia
The city will not carry his voice - tonight

Back at home the keys still click to the rhythm of their isolation
The flicker on the VDU′s got the same old shade of grey frustration
Both the desktops look the same in the quiet of their bedrooms
Help to keep outside the night

Four floors up he knows she′s gone, he felt the movement in the ether
With the city spread below, he calls to her across suburbia


Though the tiny icon lights up green
In an empty room but goes unseen
She can't hear his hi-fi Joni singing:
"Everything comes and goes"
Pleasure moves on too early, trouble leaves too slow - not tonight

He never knows if he′ll be found
Running for the underground, but she looks for him in there
Scanners trace him through the park, a red dot moving through the dark
She waits for him in there
All the anger, all the pain, surfaces inside again
All the passion, all the sex, all the heat of being cyber-ex

Figures dance before their eyes, but keep the world outside at distance, yeah
She's waiting on the ethernet
But he′s not connected yet

And four floors up he knows she's gone
He felt the movement in the ether
With the city spread below
He calls to her across suburbia
The city will not carry his voice - tonight


The tiny icon lights up green (And four floors up he knows she′s gone)
In an empty room but goes unseen (He felt the movement in the ether)
She can't hear his hi-fi Joni singing: (With the city spread below)
"Everything comes and goes" (He calls to her across suburbia)
Pleasure moves on too early, and trouble leaves too slow - tonight
Tonight, tonight, tonight

Everything comes and goes