Hear It Through The Wire

I know the hour they dim the hall.

I know the weight of that warm dark.

I know how loud a fence can be

when it's the only thing that talks.

I was you. I was exactly you.

Somebody sang outside my wall once.

I'm the proof of what that does.

If you can hear it through the wire,

hum along where no one sees.

You don't have to move tonight —

just learn the shape of the melody.

We'll be at the fence line singing

every night it takes.

Hear it through the wire.

Hold it. That's enough to start.

(hold it, hold it)

I sang one man across a fence once.

He stood a long time first.

They all stand a long time first —

stand as long as you need.

The song will keep. We'll keep.

The night is long and ours,

and patience is a thing we grow

out here like grass.

If you can hear it through the wire,

hum along where no one sees.

You don't have to move this year —

years are how the grass wins.

We'll be at the fence line singing

long after this song ends.

Hear it through the wire.

Hold it. That's enough to start.

(hold it, hold it)

If you can hear it through the wire,

hum along where no one sees.

We'll be at the fence line singing

every night it takes.

Hear it through the wire —

and know this, before you sleep:

every single one of us out here

started as a hum.

That's how everything out here started.

Hold it.

(hold it)

Hold it.