Lyrics
The cirrus clouds over the Deschutes spillway were thin as a promise.
We laid on the concrete, still warm from the August day's heat.
The air tasted like copper 'fore the rain begins to fall,
Felt the whole sky get heavy, felt the static in it all.
[Chorus]
We were the barometer kids, born to a low-pressure town.
Yeah, we swore we could feel it in our bones when a storm was comin' 'round.
Hummin' a new radio song, trying to drown the future out.
[Verse 2]
That summer of the hundred-year flood, you climbed the diversion gate.
Someone yelled "the pressure's droppin' low, it's gettin' late."
You just laughed, kicked your boots off, a silhouette against the gray,
Said a prayer to Gordon Lightfoot and jumped in anyway.
[Chorus]
We were the barometer kids, born to a low-pressure town.
Yeah, we swore we could feel it in our bones when a storm was comin' 'round.
Hummin' a new radio song, trying to drown the future out.
[Instrumental Break]
[Bridge]
Does the wind off the Ochocos still carry the same smell?
Is it just humidity, or a story we can't tell?
[Chorus]
We were the barometer kids, born to a low-pressure town.
Yeah, we swore we could feel it in our bones when a storm was comin' 'round.
Hummin' a new radio song, trying to drown the future out.
[Outro]
Just the hum of the high-tension wire,
And the changing sound.
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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