I'm amazed how the news does travel Static like ghosts in gasoline Faster than vision on a wire Faster than voices overseas And the voice says to me "You are alone but you are not free" Late at night when I'm cooling down Rattles sound inches from my face And your voice lashes like a snake With a phone cord for a tail And the snake says to me "You are alone but you are not free" I dial networks that ripen slowly Ripen long after 12 o'clock And the wind shakes the drying fruit Sounds like chewing in the dark And I choose what I see I'm alone but I am not free