Static On The Radio - 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?

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)

Is just static on the radio

(Everything I think I know is just static on the radio)

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?

'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 who are listening)

To the 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)