Are You Out There Lyrics - Many Great Companions - Dar Williams

Perhaps I am a miscreation 

No one knows the truth, there is no future here 

And you're the DJ, speaks to my insomnia 

And laughs at all I had to fear 

Laughs at all I had to fear 

You always play the madmen poets 

Vinyl vision grungy bands 

You never know who's still awake 

You never know who understands and 

Are you out there, can you hear this? 

Jimmy Olson, Johnny Memphis 

I was out here listening all the time 

And though the static walls surround me 

You were out there and you found me 

I was out here listening all the time 

Last night we drank in parking lots 

And why do we drink? I guess we do it 'cause 

And when I turned your station on 

You sounded more familiar than that party was 

You were more familiar than that party 

It's the first time I stayed up all night 

It's getting light I hear the birds 

I'm driving home on empty streets 

I think I put my shirt on backwards 

Are you out there, can you hear this? 

Jimmy Olson, Johnny Memphis 

I was out here listening all the time 

And though the static walls surround me 

You were out there and you found me 

I was out here listening all the time 

And what's the future, who will choose it? 

Politics of love and music 

Underdogs who turn the tables 

Indie versus major labels 

There's so much to see through 

Like our parents do more drugs than we do, oh 

Corporate parents, corporate towns 

I know every TV set that's got them lit 

They preach that I should save the world 

They pray that I won't do a better job of it 

Pray that I won't do a better job 

So tonight I turned your station on 

Just so I'd be understood 

Instead another voice said, "I was just too late 

And just no good" 

Calling Olson, calling Memphis 

I am calling, can you hear this? 

I was out here listening all the time 

And I will write this down 

And then I will not be alone again, yeah 

I was out here listening 

Oh yeah, I was out here listening 

Oh yeah, I am out here listening all the time