The Sound of the Crowd

Song Styles

Strange how the scale forms

In tiny patterns

On my antenna

and The Five O’Clock Show, hello hello …

Brooklyn is crawling with famous people

I turn my vehicle beneath the river, west from south

Through the airwaves-

people never read the airwaves

Do we only feed the airwaves?

I really should have seen through the airwaves

Electric fences line our new freeway

Here in the half-light, the motorhomes leave

Knee-deep in water under a pylon

How slow my heartbeat

How thin the air I’m breathing in

Through the airwaves –

People never read the airwaves

do we only feed the airwaves?

Or stamp them out at street level ?

Airwaves – the dampness of the wind

The airwaves – the tension of the skin

The airwaves

Be in my broadcast when this is over

Give me your shoulder, I need a place

To wait for morning

No it was nothing – some car backfiring –

Please don’t ask questions

I itch all over

Let me sleep

Through the airwaves –

People never read the airwaves

Do we only feed the airwaves?

Or stamp them out at street level ?

Airwaves – the dampness of the wind

The airwaves – the tension of the skin

The airwaves I really should have seen through …

–Thomas Dolby, “Airwaves”


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