We run and we shout
We upload to the cloud
We watch our screens
We chase our spleens
We follow the rules
We make ourselves fools
We flee from our hopes
We slide down the slopes
(noise of falling down the piano)
And then the lights go out


When the lights go out
We start to see
We unfold from our chairs
Look up in glee

When the lights go out
We hear ourselves think
And who knows who knows
We might even sing La la la...

We put down our useless cabled toys
And search in the dark for our shoes
We pull up the blinds for the first time in years
the neighbors may see what we've hidden - who cares
We step on the balconies out in the sunset
And marvel upon it until we go mad


We follow the walls to the doors of our flats
an start dropping the keys onto the mats
The stairways are pitch black but we're not alone
Right now everybody is leaving their home
We reach the entrance, step out to the streets
And feel how in unison the city's heart beats


We are the city now, we are the hive
We are the swarm, we are deeply alive
We hug and we dance, we share bottles with strangers
Artists with bookkeepers, beggars with bankers
We party until the night doth fall
A mad dream that we are a family all
Lalala...

And then the lights went on