Dead Channel Summer

Intro – distant, filtered

Sun go down on the satellite sea…

Nobody callin’ back to me…

Verse 1

Blue motel glow and a half-dead moon

TV in the corner singin’ out of tune

Ash in the swimming pool, bikes in the yard

Kids spray-paint halos on a rusted-out car

Everybody’s laughing with a crack in their teeth

Cheap little paradise, expensive grief

Postcards burning in the dashboard light

Dreams taste bitter when they sit too long at night

Pre-Chorus

I hear the wires hum your name again

Like static in the bones of the summer wind

Chorus

Dead channel summer, radio rain

We dance in the dark just to feel something strange

Neon ghosts in the shopping mall glow

Nobody leaves and nobody knows

Dead channel summer, glitter and rust

Love in the speakers but the signal don’t trust

Hands to the sky while the city comes loose

Everybody’s running but there’s nothing to lose

Verse 2

Cigarette sunset over convenience stores

The sky look bruised like it’s been here before

Plastic saints in the laundromat spin

Washing old sins that keep crawling back in

I saw your shadow in a vending machine

Smiling like a glitch in a fever dream

Everybody’s talking in a coded haze

Stuck in the loop of the end-of-days

Bridge – stripped down / dreamy

If I sleep now, will the world stay still?

Will the floodlights fade from the windowsill?

If I call out through the dead FM

Will you come back through the static again?

Chorus

Dead channel summer, radio rain

We dance in the dark just to feel something strange

Neon ghosts in the shopping mall glow

Nobody leaves and nobody knows

Dead channel summer, glitter and rust

Love in the speakers but the signal don’t trust

Hands to the sky while the city comes loose

Everybody’s running but there’s nothing to lose

Outro – fading, warped, spoken

No reception…

No tomorrow forecast…

Just heat…

Just static…

Just us…