Cats Laughing
Signal to Noise
Drinking coffee, have to stay awake and think of youAching awfully, knowing my perceptions aren't trueIf you were what I've made you, not as your acts betrayed youHow could I keep away?But things still lead me on, a word and then it's goneWhat lives here and what's stray?Tell me please, what's signal and what's noise?Interference, or is that the broadcast that I've got?Your appearance renders me incapable of thoughtHere's your voice on the phone, your sweet and sullen toneWhat am I to believe?Did you blow me a kiss, or was that just tape hiss?When I hang up, will you grieve?Have pity, now, what's signal and what's noise?Here's your photo, I found it cleaning out my bottom drawerWhen you wrote, oh, I couldn't keep from wondering what forThrough the gray, through the grain, a picture taken in the rainThat doesn't show your faceConnected dots don't make a line, you confuse me every timeConfusion has its placeBut just this onceWhat's signal and what's noise?
From Letras Mania