Static on the Radio

3 A.M., I'm awakened
 By a sweet summer rain
 Distant howling of a passing
 Southbound coal train
 Was I dreaming or was there someone just lying here
 Beside me in this bed?
 Am I hearing things?
 Or in the next room
 Did a long forgotten music box just start playing?
 And I know
 It's a sin putting words in the mouths of the dead
 And I know
 It's a crime to weave your wishes into what they said
 And I know
 Only fools venture where them spirits tread
 'Cause I know
 Every word, every sound bouncing 'round my head
 Is just static on the radio
 Static on the radio
 Static on the radio
 Static on the radio
 Static on the radio
 Everything I think I know is just static on the radio
 Static on the radio
 Everything I think I know is just static on the radio
 Midnight randevou, with a pretty girl
 Wearing a torn and tear-stained gown
 Like a ghost ship, she appeared from nowhere
 And on the highway and flagged me down
 I gave her a lift downtown to the Greyhound station
 And a flicker of the neon light
 You kissed me goodbye and in the mirror of her eyes
 I saw my own reflection
 And I know
 The blind will sometimes lead the blind
 And I know
 Through shadowlands and troubled times
 And I know
 Forsaking love, we seek for signs
 And I know
 Of truths forever hid behind
 Is static on the radio
 Static on the radio
 
 Static on the radio
 Static on the radio
 Static on the radio
 Everything I think I know is just static on the radio
 Static on the radio
 Everything I think I know is just static on the radio
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 And there's a church house
 About a stone's throw down
 From this place where I been staying
 It's Sunday morning
 And I'm sittin' in my truck
 Listening to my neighbor sing
 Ten years ago, I might have joined in
 But don't time change those inclined
 To think less of what is written
 Than what's wrote between the lines?
 'Cause I know
 Dreams are for those who are asleep in bed
 And I know
 It's a sin putting words in the mouths of the dead
 'Cause I know
 For all my ruminations I can't change a thing
 Still I hope
 There's others out there who are listening
 To the static on the radio
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 Everything I think I know is just static on the radio
 Static on the radio
 Ain't praying for miracles, I'm just down on my knees
 Static on the radio
 Listening for the song behind everything I think I know
 Static on the radio
 Everything I think I know, is just static on the radio
 Everything I think I know, is just static on the radio