Coming through Static Songtext
von Ian North

He walked across, alone
He saw that it was green
Oh, and he dreamed
Of all the dreamplaces all over the world

There where his wife and children waited
Home for the milk and bread
Waiting seven years to declare
That the thing was dead

He walked down a street
And he got to the freeway
Along acess roads and the two lanes
Down the boarding

Ticket to nowhere written on his skin
Skin shed on the way
Down through the green hills
Towards the sea


Stole a truck outside a Charlotte
Drove to the everglaze
But the cops caught up with him
And he had to shoot them down, down, down

Now, they say you can see him sometimes at night
Hung gators in his swamp
Just because they′re green
Because they're green, no

And he was coming through the static
And they could almost hear the tune
Like voices from the moon

I got a heart like a radio
It gets scrambled in the night
My heart is no astronomer
It loses its way in the dark

He′s got a madman on the tuner
Picks some noises it doesn't understand
Distant voices in the room
Coming through the crack along the line

Sometimes I hear a voice I know
Sometimes speaking a foreign tongue
Sometimes sounds like the rust or the leaves in the forest
When the night comes down


And it's coming through the static
And I can almost hear the tune
Like voices from the moon

There′s a song of a love that can′t be found
Song of a love that's lost
There′s a song of a love that's given up
For the sake of what it cost

Then there′s a song at the radio
Sings, song of all that's green, oh
The humming of the lyric, when it meets the air
And makes the rain come down

Baby, love is a dream of a better world
To my feeling coming round
You might feel like you′re a radio station
Buried in the ground

And you're coming through the static
And they could almost hear the tune
Like voices from the moon