Scare Away The Dark

Album: Whispers (2014)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song hones in on modern society's obsession with the internet and technology and features anti-technology lines like "we're all slowly dying in front of fu---ng computers."
  • A regular song in Mike Passenger Rosenberg's live sets the singer performed the song on television for the first time on the March 28, 2014 episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
  • The video was directed by James Lee (OneRepublic's "Counting Stars"). The clip features a drab office coming to life with plants and animals. Passenger said: "We had so much fun making it – massive thank you to everybody involved (especially the actors that ran around like naked lunatics in a field in the middle of nowhere on a Monday morning …. LEGENDS !!)"

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