FM Radio - Dar Williams

Hey, Mr. Lifeguard

Up in the big chair

Turn up the radio

You’re looking good, yeah

Dancing at the snack bar, singing to each other

We know the words from a record back cover

We got Crawdaddy

We know what’s going on

Sonny and Cher split

What took 'em so long?

The boys are strutting like a foxy lady

So sing it loud in your hairbrush, baby

It’s FM radio

Everywhere I go

FM radio

Call of the night

FM radio

Everywhere I go

FM radio

Call of the night

Lou Reed says he’s

A bisexual

Jackson Browne is

An intellectual

Stevie Wonder bought a house for his mother

DJ telling us we’re sister and brother

We are the cosmos

We are the glam kids

Putting stardust

On our eyelids

Nightbird’s calling for a group meditation

Sending Patty Hearst a positive vibration

FM radio

Everywhere I go

FM radio

Call of the night

FM radio

Everywhere I go

FM radio

Call of the night

It’s in my pocket

When I’m sledding

My cousin’s smoking pot

Before her wedding

Talking Cold War

And rocket launches

I’m talking disco

With my orthodontist

Who cranked Zeppelin?

The driver ed guy

Yelled «Barracuda»

Off the high dive

On a date with

A guy from band, he

Played a trumpet solo

It was Brandy!

Every night I do stuff with my hair

Maybe Queen needs a clarinet player

And the sailors say:

FM radio

Everywhere I go

FM radio

Call of the night

FM radio

Everywhere I go

FM radio

Call of the night

Hey, little sister

Take off the headphones

Don’t try to scrutinize

That’s just a dead zone

Wake up the neighbors, tell me, how do you feel?

And live the fantasy that makes your life real

So if you wanna play

Follow your glory

And if some guy says

That’s not your story

Take a lesson from the FM that I knew then

It’s like a public pool;

you decide where to jump in

To feel the sexiness, the passion, and the fusion and the fission

Remember Bruce Springsteen divorced a model and

Married a musician!

FM radio

Everywhere I go

FM radio

Call of the night

FM radio

Everywhere I go

FM radio

Call of the night

FM radio

Everywhere I go

FM radio

Call of the night

FM radio

Everywhere I go

FM radio

Call of the night

FM radio

Everywhere I go

FM radio

Call of the night

FM radio

Everywhere I go

FM radio

Call of the night

I’m Alison Steele, the Nightbird, and I’ll fly again when 2 am rolls around.

Join me

'Til then, love and peace.

And a good day