Telephone Wire - Michael Cerveris/Beth Malone.mp3

[00:02.07]ALISON:
[00:03.92]Telephone wire,
[00:05.74]Run and run,
[00:07.51]Telephone wire.
[00:09.56]Sundown on the creek,
[00:12.27]Partly frozen, partly flowing.
[00:14.68]Must be windy, trees are bending.
[00:16.55]Junction 50 field needs mowing.
[00:18.88]Feels like the car is glowing.
[00:22.18]Say something!
[00:23.80]Talk to him!
[00:25.99]Say something!
[00:27.71]Anything!
[00:29.82]At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light,
[00:33.42]At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light.
[00:37.40]Like, you could say,
[00:39.05]"So, how does it feel to know
[00:41.03]That you and I are both–"
[00:42.30][spoken]
[00:42.53]BRUCE:
[00:42.71]Hey.
[00:42.87]ALISON:
[00:43.13]Yeah?
[00:43.36]BRUCE:
[00:43.93]Where do you want to go?
[00:44.92]ALISON:
[00:45.14]Oh, I don't know.
[00:48.23][sung]
[00:48.43]BRUCE:
[00:48.83]I know a bar that's kind of hidden away.
[00:55.64]A seedy club for folks like… you know.
[01:01.79]Could be fun.
[01:04.98]ALISON:
[01:06.17]But Dad, I'm not twenty-one.
[01:09.91][spoken]
[01:10.48]BRUCE:
[01:11.06]Yeah, right.
[01:13.50][sung]
[01:14.14]ALISON:
[01:19.46]Telephone wire,
[01:21.30]Long black line,
[01:23.33]Telephone wire.
[01:25.10]Finely threaded sky.
[01:28.48]There's the pond where I went wading.
[01:30.15]There's a sign for Sugar Valley.
[01:32.00]On the mountain, light is fading.
[01:34.03]I go back to school tomorrow!
[01:37.46]Say something!
[01:39.04]Talk to him!
[01:41.69]Say something!
[01:43.18]Anything!
[01:45.42]At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light,
[01:49.04]At the light, at the light, at the light, at the light.
[01:52.68]Doesn't matter what you say,
[01:54.97]Just make the fear in his eyes go away.
[01:57.85]BRUCE:
[01:58.12]There was a boy
[01:59.31]In college,
[02:01.69]My first year there.
[02:04.33]Norris Jones.
[02:07.73]He had black, wavy hair.
[02:13.96]Norris Jones.
[02:17.26]Where is he now?
[02:24.41]Fourteen years old
[02:28.05]In Swenson's barn.
[02:29.81]It was cold.
[02:33.23]Lots of boys messed around, you know.
[02:37.85]For them, it was a game they outgrew,
[02:41.57]But I always knew
[02:44.55]ALISON:
[02:44.81]Dad, me too!
[02:45.86]Since, like, five, I guess,
[02:47.40]I preferred to wear boys' shirts and pants.
[02:50.24]I felt absurd in a dress.
[02:52.72]I really tried to deny my feelings for girls,
[02:57.14]But I was like you, Dad,
[03:00.06]Me too.
[03:00.82]BRUCE:
[03:01.24]Norris Jones…
[03:01.68]ALISON:
[03:03.32]Dad?
[03:03.74]BRUCE:
[03:04.36]Norris Jones…
[03:05.92]ALISON:
[03:06.22]Dad?
[03:08.10][spoken]
[03:08.62]BRUCE:
[03:09.82]Hey, did I mention that new project I've taken on?
[03:14.47]You've seen it, Al, that old house out on Route 150?
[03:17.29]It's been standing empty forty, fifty years at least.
[03:19.66][sung]
[03:20.01]ALISON:
[03:20.24]Telephone wire,
[03:20.42]Stop! Too fast!
[03:23.68]Telephone wire,
[03:24.98]Make this not the past.
[03:27.66]This car ride,
[03:29.51]This is where it has to happen!
[03:31.86]There must be some other chances.
[03:33.85]There's a moment I'm forgetting
[03:36.13]Where you tell me you see me.
[03:39.22]Say something!
[03:40.74]Talk to me!
[03:43.26]Say something!
[03:44.62]Anything!
[03:47.11]At the light,
[03:50.76]At the light.
[03:54.22]This can't be our last—
[03:56.15][spoken]
[03:56.37]BRUCE:
[03:56.55]Well, that was fun. It's earlier than I thought. Are you coming in?
[04:03.89][sung]
[04:04.42]ALISON:
[04:05.72]Telephone wire,
[04:09.90]That was our last night.
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