Lyrics
Larry's gonna hate the north-facing window
on Campbell Street, second floor, come November.
The radiator's gonna hiss like a bad condenser mic,
I'll just learn to love the empty harmonic, night after night.
[Chorus]
Calibrating the quiet that's coming for me,
Just me and the hum of the city's machinery.
[Verse 2]
The '72 fuzz bass gets the wall with the water stain.
You said "you're somewhere else again" last night in the rain.
I'll buy a single fork from the Goodwill on San Pablo,
Guess I won't need two, you know? A funny kind of tableau.
[Chorus]
Calibrating the quiet that's coming for me,
Just me and the hum of the city's machinery.
[Bridge]
Every BART train rattling the window frame
Is gonna sound a lot like it's saying my name in shame.
[Outro]
Just calibrating...
Yeah, the quiet...
About Sly Stoney
Sly Stoney was named after a funk legend by his parents, a fact that has haunted him ever since. After dropping out of an Urban Planning program at UC Davis, he moved back to his native West Oakland with a mountain of student debt, a 1972 fuzz bass, and an oversized houseplant named Larry. His music is the sound of that decision: paranoid, joyful, deeply funky, and wrestling with the feeling of…
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