Static

By Jawbox

On Novelty

Released on May 1, 1992

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[Intro]

I sunk my eyes in static

You taught me how to see it

Now there's no sign of you at hand

So I stop looking at it

My head is splitting trying

To read the name that you abandoned


[Verse 1]

Congratulations sister

You put yourself right over

Though you don't think I understand

This sudden awkward rupture

This stuck-unhealing fissure

No love could possibly withstand


[Chorus]

And I'd never say

It doesn't mean that much to me

Glad anyway

To see you struggle free


[Verse 2]

Pinned down but unexamined

Though you kept right on looking

At static there behind my eyes

Keep pushing one-way vision

I guess at least it's something

Since everything is so compromised


[Chorus]

And I'd never say

It doesn't mean that much to me

Glad anyway

To see you struggle free


[Outro]

I sunk my eyes in static

You taught me how to see it

Now there's no sign of you at hand

So I stop looking at it

My head is splitting trying

To read the name that you abandoned