Shadow Underneath

Lisa heard a whisper in her computer screen

And in the sad laser flicker of the xerox machine

Out the tinted windows, a car sped silently

And everything was quiet, everything was clean

But she felt something waiting

A shadow underneath

Oh, a shadow underneath

Another cup of coffee, snacks from the machine

She stared down the hallway at the plastic trees

Waving under air ducts in the automated breeze

A whisper, a flicker, trembling in the leaves

And she wanted to see it

But she didn't want to see

Oh, she didn't want to see

Down the elevator, falling silently

In the parking lot, silver puddles gleam

A canyon of buildings, lazy pipes of steam

And all of it whispered, all of it breathed

And all the little shadows

Danced around her feet

Oh, they danced around her feet

And she wanted to see them

But she didn't want to see

Oh, she didn't want to see