Lyrics
The Westinghouse transformers gave a sigh at 9:03
And the lawn chairs left their sweat-marks on the back of every knee.
You dragged the speakers to the porch to feel the batteries drain
And we watched the heat lightning flicker west of Schenley Park again.
[Chorus]
And we were just a circuit with a poorly soldered seam
You were just a flicker in the power-failure dream.
(We were just a circuit)
You were just a flicker in the dream.
[Verse 2]
Your father found his radio, the dial was stuck on static
Your mother said, "At least it's not so goddamn automatic."
We smelled the neighbors' charcoal and the wax from borrowed light
And we named the constellations on your rooftop half the night.
[Chorus]
And we were just a circuit with a poorly soldered seam
You were just a flicker in the power-failure dream.
(We were just a circuit)
You were just a flicker in the dream.
[Bridge]
No headlight glare on the retaining wall, no distant freight train groan,
For the first time since forever, you could hear your own blood flow.
[Outro]
Just the flicker of your face
In all that empty space.
About Vaughn Kiln
Vaughn Kiln was born in the shadow of Pittsburgh's defunct steel mills, and his music still carries their metallic ring. His father was an ironworker, and Vaughn’s wiry, jagged guitar lines are built on a similar logic of stress and tension. He writes songs in the basement of the row house he shares with his partner of seven years, the metalsmith Elara. These are taut, anxious anthems about…
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