Mom, don't pick the phone tonight
I'm downloading songs till morning light
Twenty megabytes before the dawn
At this speed I'll graduate and it'll still be on
Close the line, don't make a sound
The modem's singing all around
Beeeeep... krrrrrr... piiiiiii... trrrr... beep!
The soundtrack of a nerd who doesn't sleep
Dial-up, don't let me go
Fifty-six K moving slow
One wrong call and we're all through
Disconnected... start anew
Dial-up, scream your song
We waited hours all night long
No Wi-Fi, no cloud, no hype
Just hopes and dreams... and one phone line
Three hours for an MP3
Four more just to chat on ICQ with she
MSN is blinking green
And that was all the social scene
Netscape open, Yahoo too
Altavista searching through and through
One picture loading line by line
Back then we called that cutting edge design
Dial-up, don't let me go
Fifty-six K moving slow
One wrong call and we're all through
Disconnected... start anew
Dial-up, sing once more
Like you did in 2004
Slow as hell but somehow right
We conquered worlds at 56K tonight
No buffering? That's fantasy
We called it life and memory
We had patience, prayer and tea
And somehow we were still happy
