Lyrics
The space you left on the passenger side of my F-150
Weighs more than the whole damn transformer on the pole.
I drive with a list to the right, shoulder dipped and twisted,
Like I'm leaning in to hear a story I'll never be told.
[Chorus]
It's just the phantom voltage humming in the line,
A current with no source, a signal with no sign.
A dead wire singing that you're somehow doing fine.
Just the phantom voltage, Momma, all the time.
[Verse 2]
Last Sunday morning in March, the coffee tasted like rust.
I saw your hands on mine, knuckles white around the cup.
"'Tuck your thumb when you make a fist,' you said," a whisper in the dust.
Some habits are the only ghosts that ever do show up.
[Chorus]
It's just the phantom voltage humming in the line,
A current with no source, a signal with no sign.
A dead wire singing that you're somehow doing fine.
Just the phantom voltage, Momma, all the time.
[Bridge]
These copper strands I string between the sagebrush and the sky,
They carry everybody's words but never your reply.
And I wonder if a part of you got caught up there on high.
[Outro]
Just a hum in the wire...
Phantom voltage.
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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