Do You Remember Dial-Up?

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DO YOU REMEMBER DIAL-UP?
By John Sobol

Do you remember dial-up?
All those years ago
Do you remember dial-up?
When the world ran slow
Caught before a frozen screen
Modem lights blinking green
Stuck in place like a meteorite in space
Buffering a dream

2 hours
to download a new song
most of December
for king kong
it felt like time was breaking down
Breaking up in a broken frown
Yet there we were slaves to 28.8
Suspended animation lying in state

Tiny numbers that meant so much
Heart flickering with hope
From 2.1 up to 3.5 and sometimes even 4.8
It wasn’t much, it wasn’t enough,
how did we ever cope?
Sliding down this long and lonely slope

That fateful sound that rang
Down the telephone line
Eeee-oooo-wheeerrrrr
How it boggled the mind
We were wideyed owls in the night
Waiting on a better time
Once you were out on a limb
Now you check your phone and grin

Last chorus:
‘cause now its here we ‘re living high-speed lives
Bandwidth as cheap as grass
But once in a while
I crack a smile
For a time in the distant past…

In the distant past

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from datazoic folk, released August 31, 2014
Written and Performed by John Sobol
Produced by John Sobol and Blake Hargreaves
Recorded by Blake Hargreaves

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