Todd Phipps - Shortwave

Lying in my bed at night
The dial lights up my room
My thoughts and dreams are gettin' carried away
On the waves of the smell of warm glowing tubes

Voices and music coming from afar
Paint a vision of far off lands
Surf the waves of magnetic destinations
With the tuning knob in my hand

Shortwave
A window to the world had opened
Shortwave
Turned on my grandpa's radio and listened
To distant worlds and wondrous places
Happy songs from smiling faces
Shortwave carry me away

I heard pontiffs and teachers
Dispatches from the globe
A plethora of tongues and accents and secret code modulations
From places I could never go

Signals skippin' 'cross the ionosphere
Long wire aerial buzzin' with the waves
The beautiful and the strange, and the sometimes amusing
And random hawkers of someone's wacky craze

Shortwave
I heard the lightning crackle before the thunder
Shortwave
A window to a world of wonder
And tinfoil hats and snake oil sellers
Exotic music and crazy preachers
Shortwave carry me away

Shortwave
A portal to a world of magic
Shortwave
Received the glorious mundane and tragic
Well I was never gonna rattle the rafters
With the 4" speaker in my Hallicrafters but
Shortwave carried me away

Written by:
Todd Phipps

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