Friday Clock Out presents:
“Everything I think I know is just static on the radio” and LJ
Static on the Radio
Jim White
Three 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)
Songwriters: Michael Pratt
Static on the Radio lyrics © BMG Rights Management US, LLC
Playlist:
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Frank Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim, “Baubles, Bangles and Beads”
from Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
1967
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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, “City of Refuge (Acoustic Version)”
from B-sides and Rarities
Mute, a BMG Company - 2005
Originally released in 1990 as a bonus disk with The Good Son
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Jim White, “Static on the Radio”
from Drill a Hole in that Substrate and Tell Me What You See
LUAKA BOP - 2004
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Pylon, “cool”
from Gyrate Plus
DB Records - 2007
Their first single from 1979! (It predates and was not included on Gyrate)
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Karol Szymanowski Philharmonic Choir, Cracow, Beethoven Academy Orchestra & Błażej Wincenty Kozlowski, “Ich Bin Und Ich Bin In Tränen”
from Stabat Mater / Sinfonie Nr. 3 / Tryptich
Koch Schwann – 3-1265-2 - 1993
https://www.discogs.com/Karol-Szymanowski-Stabat-Mater-Sinfonie-Nr-3-Tryptich/release/9501882
El Jay Friday Clock Out June 22nd, 2018
Posted In: Music Shows
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