Static

from I Do Not Have To Be Good by Emily Keener

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Remember when you were in my head
Like that record that you played me
Every night before bed
Didn’t like the dreams it gave me
So I scratched it all to death
But you said it added character
Turned it up and showed your friends

Clear as a bell on a cabin wall
Calling me home when the sun goes down
And the chorus falls
I don’t need your 3am commiserations
There’s a hook for every lonely minute
On this radio station

What were we doing on that couch
No one in that room was gonna figure anybody out
You can learn to love the edges
But they’ll always cut you down
All those classic country songs you hate
I sleep with them turned up loud

Clear as a bell on a cabin wall
Calling me home when the sun goes down
And the chorus falls
I don’t need your 3am commiserations
There’s a hook for every lonely minute
On this radio

I don’t want to love a ghost town
Don’t want to love a specter
I’m the bright blue light
Cutting in on the pastor
Bright blue light
Blinding me through the plastic
Keeping me up all night
Breaking us up like static
On the radio

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from I Do Not Have To Be Good, released May 22, 2020
Emily Keener- guitar & vocals
Curtis Leonard- guitar

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Emily Keener Cleveland, Ohio

Emily Keener is an indie-folk artist from Cleveland, Ohio.

Her debut album, Breakfast, earned her No Depression’s 2017 Singer/Songwriter Award, and she has opened for artists like Jessica Lea Mayfield and Leigh Nash.

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