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Static on Every Station

from Static on Every Station by Tom Andes

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I like to tell people this is about driving around Southern Oklahoma and Northern Texas getting high with someone whose boyfriend was in prison, but that's half the truth. The lyrics are about several different people, an amalgam of feelings of love and loss. When I wrote this in 2003, I was very much under the influence of Wilco, and I loved how many of Jeff Tweedy's lyrics were metaphors for failed communication, hence the refrain and the title of this song. At the time, I played this in A, pushing my voice to hit the high notes, and I recorded it as an acoustic demo and sent it along with a bunch of other songs to friends on a CD. Fast forward 15 years. I remembered writing this song, but I couldn't remember the chords, the lyrics, nothing more than a couple changes and a general sense of what it was about. Fortunately, one of those friends still had the CD I'd burned them, so I relearned the song, dropping the key into a range that is natural for my voice and lets me use open chords on the guitar. This recording really benefited from rehearsals with Beau, who helped me evolve the electric guitar parts during the verses. Listening to it now, I can hear how the love I've had for R.E.M. since junior high informed this in ways I wasn't aware of when I wrote it.

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I lost the signal
I lost connection with you
In these troubled times
It's too easy to forget
How I still miss you
And the way you'd light that cigarette
And tell me
To cut us out another line

In a week of Mondays
In a week of Monday mornings
When we were getting high
Instead of looking for work
You told your mother
We'd be right back with her car
And then you took her wallet
Right out of her purse

And I don't know
How I'm feeling
I don't know
But I'm reeling from you
Had my mind made up
Thought I'd had enough
But there's static on every station
Static on every station
Static on every station on the radio

You're in another state
You're in another state of mind
And it's a place whose borders
I hope I never cross
Where that country music plays
And those highway miles fade away
Like an anthem
To what you didn't know you'd lost

And I worry for you
And I still adore you
I don't know what's in store for you
I guess we'll have to wait
But he's no good for you
And just because he wouldn't sell you out
That don't mean
He'll never sell you short

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from Static on Every Station, released January 24, 2022
Tom Andes: lead vocals, acoustic and electric guitar
George "Beau" Bishop: backing vocals, drums, percussion
Stoo Odom: bass

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Originally from New Hampshire, Tom has lived all over the country, on both coasts and (twice) in New Orleans. Currently, he lives in Albuquerque, NM.

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