Lyrics
The squeak of a gym floor at Chief Leschi Elementary, Cass.
They've got the voting booths set up by the faded three-point line.
The whole room smells like floor wax and the paper in your hands,
a low hum from the ballast in the lights, a patient design.
[Chorus]
And we're taking soundings in the quiet,
a gymnasium hymn for the coming tide.
Just another depth measurement, a civilian riot
with a number-two pencil held inside.
[Verse 2]
A woman says, "Just sign here on the line, hon," with a VFW pin on her vest.
Her kindness is a current running opposite the news.
It's the first Tuesday of November, putting duty to the test—
the way you stand a watch for something you're afraid to lose.
[Chorus]
And we're taking soundings in the quiet,
a gymnasium hymn for the coming tide.
Just another depth measurement, a civilian riot
with a number-two pencil held inside.
[Bridge]
Do you feel it too? The pressure building fathoms down below?
The hydrostatic press of all these folded paper hopes.
[Outro]
The little plastic stylus hangs there, swinging slow.
The line shuffles forward, Cass. The curtain closes.
About Hollis Finch
Hollis Finch spent four years as a sonar technician on a U.S. Navy destroyer, charting the vast, empty landscapes of the North Pacific. He now writes songs in a damp Portland basement on the same nylon-string guitar his grandfather, a merchant marine, taught him to play. His music maps the quiet echoes of a life at sea and the strange shoreline between military discipline and civilian drift.…
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