Paper Radio lyrics

IntroStatic and a half-remembered song

Verse 1We built a radio out of paper and hope
strung an antenna from the back of our throat
and we sang to a town that had turned off its set
the kind of nothing you don't quite forget

Pre-ChorusAnd nobody listened, and we played it anyway
'cause the song was the point, not the people who'd stay

ChorusTurn up the paper radio
loud enough to feel like we matter
every note's a flag we throw
at a sky that won't get any flatter
paper radio, paper radio
sing it till the silence cracks
we were never gonna make it
so we made it about that

Verse 2The signal was weak but the wanting was strong
and a weak signal's still a signal all along
they can cut the power, they can pull the plug
we'll hum it in the dark like a held-on hug

Pre-ChorusAnd nobody listened, and we played it anyway
'cause the song was the point, not the people who'd stay

ChorusTurn up the paper radio
loud enough to feel like we matter
every note's a flag we throw
at a sky that won't get any flatter

BridgeIf the broadcast dies, we become the wire
hand to hand, we carry the fire

OutroStatic and a half-remembered song.
We were the station all along.