Lyrics
(Sound of a car engine idling, a soft click as a call connects)
Hey.
The old Pay-N-Pak by the Alkali Flats Overpass
is a Spirit Halloween, been that way since last August.
The asphalt’s got the same steep gradient as before,
just cheatgrass growing through the automatic door.
[Chorus]
Some things get a new coat of paint,
and some things just get erased.
Funny what the wire remembers,
and what the rust misplaced.
[Verse 2]
The steel up here still holds the heat from noon.
The guardrail hums a low transformer tune.
"Don't look down," your brother said that night,
just a coyote grin in the sodium light.
[Chorus]
Some things get a new coat of paint,
and some things just get erased.
Funny what the wire remembers,
and what the rust misplaced.
[Bridge]
A survey marker gleams a little pinprick star,
shows where the footing ends and the real hazards are.
Just another number logged for torque and sheer.
[Outro]
Anyway. Give a call.
(click, dial tone hum)
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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