Lyrics
5:04 AM, the USGS Quad on the pine.
Coffee's black, I trace the Wasco county line.
The paper's worn to velvet where my finger always goes,
From the substation cutoff to where the John Day flows.
[Chorus]
Today I am just a steady hand on a steep gradient.
I can hold the tension, I know the instrument.
This is just another sunrise burning off the alkali dust.
[Verse 2]
The Kenwood fridge is humming a low and steady drone.
Got my Carhartts on the hook, my boots beside the phone.
Momma said, "You can't fix every single short along the way."
But I can torque a bolt down right and call it a good day.
[Bridge]
This paper map can't tell you 'bout the sag in the wire,
Or the quiet in a kitchen when the August heat's on fire.
[Musical Saw Solo]
[Outro]
One more sip of coffee.
One more shaky line.
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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