Lyrics
The Gideon bible on the nightstand is a shadow on the wall.
You hear the ice machine two doors down, waiting on the call.
This clock radio's buzzing out a static kind of prayer.
You just trace the grain in the cheap wood, and picture her right there.
[Chorus]
And the world holds its breath in the ringing hour.
(Just for a moment)
Just a voice on the wire, that's the only power.
(Maya, can you hear me?)
[Verse 2]
The cold on the window feels just like the lake back home in fall.
"'Bring me back a rock,' you said," barely a whisper in the hall.
You check the cracked phone screen, another minute crawling past.
Some promises you build to break, and some you build to last.
[Chorus]
And the world holds its breath in the ringing hour.
(Just for a moment)
Just a voice on the wire, that's the only power.
(Maya, can you hear me?)
[Bridge]
It’s a different kind of framework, holding up a day this way.
A single, silver plumb line, so the whole thing doesn't sway.
[Outro]
4:18. And the line goes live.
(Sound of a phone ringing, then a single click)
About Bill Wexler
Bill Wexler builds things. By day, he works as a carpenter in Gary, Indiana, the city where he was born and raised. By night, he builds songs from the quiet, ordinary moments of his life: the hum of a freight train, the weight of a toolbox, the challenge of raising his teenage daughter, Maya. He had Maya when he was 18, and his minimalist soul music is a plainspoken chronicle of a decade spent…
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