Medium Wave

© 2004 Midnight Island Music

A man in a room in the morning downtown
Cigarette out, never looking around
A voice on the phone and a guest on the way
A nod to the band getting ready to play
A lifetime of medium wave in my head
Childhood memories of lying in bed
Allan and Max, Foster and John
In my mind with the radio on

A wooden box wired to an old copper screen
How could I know the things it would mean
The hum of the tubes the glow of the wires
The sound of the world in a listener's desires
A lifetime of medium wave in my head
Went right through me but not like they said
Left a trace of the ones that are gone
In my mind with the radio on

I heard one playing on the street today
I've always loved the idea
of hearing voices from so far away
of people who can't see you...