Hey now, overcome your concern about the weather And whether or not I'm still alive Check the vital signs So soft spoken and shy Never gets high anymore Did you poison my food? Forgive me, I've paranoid flu ♪ I've been lying wide awake paralyzed by the buzzing of the television These modern things we know, getting you off These modern things we know, getting you off ♪ Haunting us, these different meanings and spectral beings We're fighting sleep with broken, rusted weaponry Sing so softly and low, like you want me to hear Stolen what you can't afford What's that muffle beating for? I've been lying wide awake paralyzed by the buzzing of the television These modern things we know (Getting you off) These modern things we know (Getting you off) ♪ Something I could never say, speak so softly and low Something I could never say Something I could never say Something I could never say Something I could never say, speak so softly and low (Speak so softly) If you love me let me go Speak so softly (Speak so softly) Stolen what you can't afford, what's that muffle beat? (Speak so softly) Something I can never say, speak so softly and low (Speak so softly)