Digital Witness Lyrics
Get back to your seats
Get back, gnashing teeth
Ooh
I want all of your mind
People turn the TV on, it looks just like a window
Yeah
People turn the TV on, it looks just like a window
Yeah
[Chorus]
Digital witnesses
What's the point of even sleeping?
If I can't show it, you can't see me
What's the point of doing anything?
[Post-Chorus]
This is no time
For confessing
[Verse 2]
I want all of your mind
People turn the TV on, it looks just like a window
Yeah
People turn the TV on, it looks just like a window
Yeah
Digital witnesses
What's the point of even sleeping?
If I can't show it, you can't see me
Watch me jump right off the London Bridge
[Post-Chorus]
This is no time
For confessing
[Verse 3]
People turn the TV on and throw it out the window
Yeah
Get back to your stare
I can, but I don't care, oh, oh
I, I want all of your mind
Gimme all of your mind
I want all of your mind
Gimme all of it
[Chorus]
Digital witnesses
What's the point of even sleeping?
If I can't show it, you can't see me
What's the point of doing anything?
About
The second single released off St. Vincent’s self-titled album, “Digital Witness” is Annie Clark’s scathing satire of the selfie age.
Its heavy brassy beats are reminiscent of Clark’s last record, the art funk collaboration with David Byrne, Love This Giant.
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In 2018, NPR ranked this as the #181 greatest song by a female or nonbinary artist in the 21st century, saying:
2014 is the year St. Vincent became a rock star. Heavily influenced by her work with David Byrne just before its release, ‘Digital Witness’ could not have burst more forcefully off of St. Vincent if Annie Clark had been playing a Mad Max flame-guitar to record it. Funky, electric, robotic, distorted and somehow both icily distant and searingly immediate, this track is the biggest pin yet on the map of Clark’s ascent to modern guitar god.
- 1.Rattlesnake
- 4.Huey Newton
- 5.Digital Witness
- 7.Regret
- 9.Psychopath
- 12.Bad Believer
- 13.Pietà
- 14.Sparrow
- 15.Del Rio