Ten Second News

(album: Trace - 1995)

When you find what matters is what you feel
It arrives and it disappears
Driving down sunny 44 highway
There's a beach there known for cancer
Waiting to happen

When you're out across the county line
The news travels slower than a ten-second buzz
But only you'll ever know
Cause day by day it disappears
Only you'll ever know

And it's hard enough soaking up billboard signs
You scorch and drown alive, never knowing why
The levee gates are open wide
There's a cough in the water and it's running into town

Bright eyes, don't change, stay the same
There must be an answer for what keeps it going on
But only you'll ever know
Cause day by day it disappears
Only you'll ever know, only you'll ever know
Cause day by day it disappears
Only you'll ever know