A Day with the Phone Off

[Soft Felt Piano Intro] Finger swipes the power button one last time The screen goes dark like closing one eye [Verse 1] No more ping that jolts us awake No more thumb scrolling endlessly The wood grain of the table suddenly real And the book lying there has waited long [Pre-Chorus] The phone's stillness turns out not to be scary But the empty space we've long been missing [Chorus] one day with phone off The world still turns yet the heart gets to rest one day with phone off We are a person, not a notification [Verse 2] I go to the backyard to pull weeds instead of scrolling Cook a meal for just myself and the hunger The old radio sings an old familiar song Yet somehow brighter than any feed [Chorus] one day with phone off The world still turns yet the heart gets to rest one day with phone off We are a person, not a notification [Bridge] Tomorrow morning I'll switch it on again But today we choose to be blind to the signal To remember that beyond that screen [Chorus] one day with phone off The world still turns yet the heart gets to rest one day with phone off We are a person, not a notification [Outro] The phone still face down, afternoon has come I pick up a pen to write by hand instead of typing [Fade Out] [End]