Remote Reply

Is anybody listening Hello Can anyone

hear me Is anybody listening

Calling out into the black

Night after night

Nothing comes back (Nothing comes

back)

Is anybody listening

Is

anybody there

So I traced the lines where the answers land

Counted the footprints,

counted the hands

Most of the windows are lit in empty rooms

Ten thousand voices shouting at the moon

Every echo comes back doubled

One small call splits into a crowd of trouble

Neighbours talking over the line

Filling the dark, the dark,

with their own design

Who is listening

Who is listening

Find the ones who hear Find the ones who hear

Then I found a red light already awake

Keeping its watch for everyone's sake

When a voice goes unheard in the deep of the night

The window glows,

the window burns bright

Sleepers who never once turned around

Still get shaken by every sound

One far station, days on the reply

Mark it down,

don't let it pass you by

You don't reach more people by shouting louder.

You reach them

by speaking

to the ones who are near.

Is anybody listening Is anybody listening

Only the ones who are near

Let the sleepers rest Every heart can choose how to hear Every

call comes home

Signal clear

Signal clear

We are heard We are

heard

Only the ones who are near Every call comes home

Signal clear

We are heard

Is anybody listening

Yes

Somebody's listening