What the song is about
The singer describes a normal day with technology. They wake up, check their phone and email, work on a laptop, charge a low battery, use apps, watch videos and call friends. The chorus says we are always connected, day and night, and that the whole world fits in our hand. In the bridge, two people have short everyday conversations about tech problems, and the outro ends with See you online.
Useful words and expressions
Devices
- phone, laptop, screen, cable, charger, router, device
- The battery is running low: the battery is almost empty.
- plug it in: connect it to power.
- My phone is dead: an informal way to say the battery is empty. It does not mean the phone is broken.
- The screen is frozen: nothing on the screen moves or reacts.
- tap the screen, scroll down the page, type a password, hit play, click the button, press the key
- upload / download files, share a picture, leave a comment, follow a page
- log in / log out: start or end your session on a website or app.
- shut down: turn a computer or phone completely off.
- restart: turn something off and on again.
- online: connected to the internet. See you online is a friendly goodbye.
- in the cloud: stored on the internet, not on your own device.
- internet connection, Wi-Fi, website, link, video call
- Can you give me the Wi-Fi password?
- Do you have a charger?
- Can you send me the link? / I will send it right now.
- Try to restart the device.
Grammar
- Present simple for routines: I wake up, I check my email, I watch a video. We use it for things we do regularly.
- Present continuous for what is happening now: The battery is running low.
- Imperatives for instructions: Click the button, press the key, share a picture. The verb comes first, with no subject.
- Polite requests with can you: Can you give me…? Can you send me…?
- Will for a promise or quick decision: I will send it right now.
- To + verb for a purpose: I have a laptop on my desk to work and study. I type a password to prove that I am where I belong.
- A first-conditional style sentence: If the website is slow, I simply restart it.
Careful: lyrics bent for rhyme or rhythm
- With an internet connection fast: the adjective comes after the noun to rhyme with last. In normal English, say a fast internet connection.
- If the website is slow or dead, I simply restart it like I said: like I said is only there to rhyme with dead, because the singer never said it before. Also, we usually reload or refresh a website. We restart a device. Dead for a website is very informal. People normally say the site is down.
- The world is inside our hand: this is poetic. In our hands would be more natural.
- Share a picture just for me is a poetic line, not a fixed expression.
- To prove that I am where I belong is poetic. It is not a usual way to talk about passwords.