10 Things Left Behind S1E 5: “The Song on the Radio”

[INTRO] [Radio static] [DJ voice] “And now, a song recorded seventeen years ago…” [VERSE 1] I was driving through the midnight With the city turning blue When a melody came through the speakers And I thought I recognized you It was nothing I remembered Yet I knew each little line Like a memory hiding somewhere At the back of my mind [CHORUS] There was a song on the radio I had never heard before But every note was calling Like I’d heard it all before It said, “Don’t wait forever For a moment to be right” Then the DJ said the time was Eleven seventeen that night [VERSE 2] I pulled beside a blue mailbox Underneath a broken sign There was a photograph beside it And a letter without a line A woman in a yellow coat Walked across the street alone She carried a red umbrella But left it by the telephone [PRE-CHORUS] Then the song began repeating Like it wanted me to know Somebody had been trying To tell me where to go [CHORUS] There was a song on the radio And suddenly I knew The voice wasn’t singing to me It was singing about you Every note became a doorway Every lyric became a clue And somewhere underneath the static I heard somebody say my name [BRIDGE] Maybe songs remember What people choose to lose Maybe every melody Is an alibi for truth [FINAL CHORUS] There was a song on the radio And when the final note was gone I realized the singer Had been waiting all along [OUTRO] [Radio static] “Track seventeen.”