Static on the Radio

[Verse 1: Jim White]

3 A.M. I'm awakened by a sweet summer rain

Distant howling of a passing southbound coal train

Was I dreaming?

Or was there someone just lying here beside me in this bed?

Am I hearing things?

Or in the next room did a long forgotten music box just start playing?

[Pre-Chorus 1: Jim White, Aimee Mann]

And I know

It's a sin putting words in the mouths of the dead

And I know

It's a crime to weave your wishes into what they said

And I know

Only fools venture where them spirits tread

'Cause I know

Every word, every sound bouncing 'round my head

[Chorus: Jim White, Aimee Mann]

Is just static on the radio

Static on the radio

Static on the radio

Static on the radio

Static on the radio

Everything I think I know is just static on the radio

Static on the radio

Everything I think I know is just static on the radio

[Verse 2: Jim White]

Midnight rendezvous with a pretty girl wearing a torn and tear-stained gown

Like a ghost ship, she appeared from nowhere on a lonely highway and flagged me down

I gave her a lift downtown to the Greyhound station under the flicker of the neon light

She kissed me goodbye, and in the mirror of her eyes, I saw my own reflection

[Pre-Chorus 2: Jim White, Aimee Mann]

And I know

The blind will sometimes lead the blind

And I know

Through shadowlands and troubled times

And I know

Forsaking love, we see the signs

And I know

Of truths forever hid behind

[Chorus: Jim White, Aimee Mann]

Static on the radio

Static on the radio

Static on the radio

Static on the radio

Static on the radio

Everything I think I know is just static on the radio

Static on the radio

Everything I think I know is just static on the radio

[Interlude]

[Verse 3: Jim White]

Now there's a church house about a stone's throw down from this place where I been staying

It's Sunday morning, and I'm sittin' in my truck, listening to my neighbor sing

Ten years ago, I might have joined in, but don't time change those inclined

To think less of what is written than what's wrote between the lines

[Pre-Chorus 3: Jim White, Aimee Mann]

'Cause I know

Dreams are for those who are asleep in bed

And I know

It's a sin putting words in the mouths of the dead

'Cause I know

For all my ruminations, I can't change a thing

Still I hope

There's others out there that are listening

[Chorus: Jim White, Aimee Mann]

To the static on the radio

Static on the radio

Static on the radio

Everything I think I know is just static on the radio

Static on the radio

Ain't praying for miracles, I'm just down on my knees

Static on the radio

Listening for the song behind everything I think I know

Static on the radio

Everything I think I know is just static on the radio

Everything I think I know is just static on the radio