Lyrics
There's a white scar on my knuckle from a roll of Pendleton wire,
Got it stringing fence in the heat of a high desert fire.
Steering wheel's cold under my thumb, it's late November,
And your porch light's the only warmth this whole town can remember.
[Chorus]
And I feel the voltage humming (humming)
Up the high-tension line of my spine.
'Cause every ghost I've been running (running)
Just pulled over on this county line.
[Verse 2]
My momma always said, "Gene, good things don't come cheap."
I can still smell the bleach and onions on her when I couldn't sleep.
She saved for two years for a guitar I was too scared to play,
And I'm staring at your front door from a hundred lifetimes away.
[Chorus]
And I feel the voltage humming (humming)
Up the high-tension line of my spine.
'Cause every ghost I've been running (running)
Just pulled over on this county line.
[Bridge]
The gradient's too steep, the load's more than I can bear,
Then you open up the screen door and just stand there.
[Outro]
A transformer sings its one low, steady note.
I can finally taste the dust that's in my throat.
About Gene Campbell
Gene Campbell was raised in Eastern Oregon by a single mother who worked three jobs and smelled of bleach and onions. He learned to play on a Japanese-made Takamine guitar she saved two years to buy him. By day, he works as a lineman's assistant, stringing the very wires he sings about—the ones that connect and divide the people in his vast, lonely corner of America. These are songs about the…
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