The Needle Has Landed

Here I am, in traffic's slow flow

(Where the needle touched down)

Carbon planes draw a cage around the Air Force base

(Where the needle touched down)

My foot on the brake, it's okay to fly low

Over poor Spanaway

An eagle swooped down from a semi-trailer

Took the name of your town from a sharp-toothed freighter

The needle's the same that recorded and played

When you left me at the Greyhound the year I moved away

And if I knew then what's so obvious now

You'd still be here... baby

My baby

So that's why I never come back here

That's why they spit out my name

Your exes have clawed up the Bible

Trying to keep me away

With the sledge of tectonic fever

The needle has landed again

Let it play

And the needle touched down

The needle has landed

An eagle swooped down from a semi-trailer

Took the name of your town from a sharp-toothed freighter

And if I knew then what's so obvious now

You'd still be here...