Lyrics
The swamp cooler on the roof kicks on at 3:17,
Spitting a humid, dusty taste of what has been.
You trace the coffee ring she left on Tuesday’s bill,
Standing at a sink that’s suddenly too still.
[Chorus]
They call it a current, you just call it the room.
A linoleum ocean in the afternoon.
You tell yourself you’re standing on the solid ground,
Not drowning in the silence of a single sound.
[Verse 2]
The magnet from a Mexicali dentist holds the light.
“Pay it on the third,” she’d said, “and hold me extra tight.”
The third has come and gone, the paper’s turning gray,
A little paper anchor in a harbor of decay.
[Chorus]
They call it a current, you just call it the room.
A linoleum ocean in the afternoon.
You tell yourself you’re standing on the solid ground,
Not drowning in the silence of a single sound.
[Bridge]
And you want to smash the window, let the dry heat in,
Scour the watermarks from where a ghost begins.
[Instrumental Break]
[Outro]
Just a linoleum ocean.
In the afternoon.
About Merle Hadrian
Merle Hadrian was born in Calexico, California, the son of an Okie irrigation worker and a mother from Mexicali. He spent twenty years working the same canals as his father, writing songs on a beat-up Telecaster about the borderlands he called home. After losing his wife, he cashed in his pension to make a pilgrimage to Bakersfield and record the stories of his life, turning the dust and…
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