Lyrics
The lid on the adobo pot rattles a high, thin tune.
You trace the azimuth from the salt shaker to the spoon.
Felt the whole room bend under the hydrostatic press
Of a three-word question you just couldn't address.
[Chorus]
But the silent part's the loudest sound.
You just gotta turn the gain back down.
It's just a shallow sounding, you're not run aground.
Turn the gain back down.
[Verse 2]
It was just past eight on a Kitsap County night.
She asked, "Are you even here under this yellow light?"
The condensation on your glass felt cold against your thumb.
You wanted to transmit, but the frequency was numb.
[Chorus]
And the silent part's the loudest sound.
You just gotta turn the gain back down.
It's just a shallow sounding, you're not run aground.
Turn the gain back down.
[Bridge]
But what if the transducer's cracked inside your chest?
What if the echo you're waiting for just got put to rest?
You plotted a course for home, but the chart was incomplete.
[Chorus]
And the silent part's the loudest sound.
You just gotta turn the gain back down.
It's just a shallow sounding, you're not run aground.
Turn the gain back down.
[Outro]
Just a ping out in the black.
No return path coming back.
About Hollis Finch
Hollis Finch spent four years as a sonar technician on a U.S. Navy destroyer, charting the vast, empty landscapes of the North Pacific. He now writes songs in a damp Portland basement on the same nylon-string guitar his grandfather, a merchant marine, taught him to play. His music maps the quiet echoes of a life at sea and the strange shoreline between military discipline and civilian drift.…
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