Lyrics
(Phone ring, clicks to voicemail)
Hey. It's Gene. Guess you're not there.
The payphone's gone from the Pilot station on the Vale exit.
It's been ten years since I stood here, shaking in the October wind.
The ritual was, I'd trace the grid of the substation fence
'Til the last light hit the insulators and it all made a kind of sense.
[Chorus]
This is just the pilot light tone, a little hum across the wire.
Just to say I remember the strain, pulling that memory tighter.
[Verse 2]
I had your number on a coil receipt from Home Depot.
The ink was faded blue, the paper soft from summer heat, you know?
You'd said, "Don't call unless you mean it, Gene. Don't waste the air."
So I rehearsed it to the skyline, my reflection in the glare.
[Chorus]
This is just the pilot light tone, a little hum across the wire.
Just to say I remember the strain, pulling that memory tighter.
[Bridge]
It's funny what the hands remember, the cold dime in my palm.
The silence after the numbers were punched, before the coming calm.
[Outro]
Anyway. Call me if you get this. Or don't.
(Click)
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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