The Relay Room Keeps Breathing

The Relay Room Keeps Breathing

Intro

One light answers another then the room goes still

Verse 1

I signed the shutdown ledger with my coat still wet three keys on a plastic tag and a name I should forget

The hill was black behind me the mast was drawing rain I put my thumb on the main switch and heard it breathe again

Pre-Chorus

It was probably weather or copper gone thin but I kept saying copy to whatever was within

Chorus

The relay room keeps breathing low light under the door I came to turn the night off but it asked me to stay more The relay room keeps breathing three beats, then gone again I am not a signal but I answer when it sends

Verse 2

The kettle clicked behind me like a clock without a face I wrote down every silence in the margin of the page

At four fifteen the red bulb held steady for a while and I hated how the living can be counted by a dial

Pre-Chorus

No voice in the static no message coming through just the sound of something broken doing what I do

Chorus

The relay room keeps breathing low light under the door I came to turn the night off but it asked me to stay more The relay room keeps breathing three beats, then gone again I am not a signal but I answer when it sends

Bridge

Morning can decide it I am tired of being brave Let the hill keep one small rhythm Let the logbook keep my name

Final Chorus

The relay room keeps breathing low light under the door I came to turn the night off but it asked me to stay more The relay room keeps breathing three beats, then gone again I am not a signal

The relay room keeps breathing

Outro

One light answers another then the room goes still