Interference

For a while now I've wanted to write a song about some experiences that happened to me when I was having a really bad time a few years ago. When I was at my worst I seemed to affect electrical equipment. I completely wiped my hard drive. God-knows how. And another time a street light went off when I walked up to it. It turned on again when I'd walked past.

A couple of weeks ago I read that this is a phenomenon that has been recorded. It's called Street Lamp Interference (SLI) and a project has been set up to study it called the Street Lamp Interference Data Exchange. Reading a few stories of 'SLIders' helped me write my song. I know it's probably circumstantial nonsense but I still think it's a great subject for a song:

Dark Receiver

Street lamps see her coming
Fade away to nothing
Sets her compass spinning
With no other witnesses

She walks streets at midnight
Bathed in pools of black light
And when her thoughts surround her
Volts flow from her fingers

Dark receiver
Static showers
Down on her

She attracts repulsion
With her cold transmissions
Weak electrons scatter
Car horns whimper back to her

She rides faulty train lines
Switches off their stop signs
And when her thoughts surround her
Volts flow from her fingers

Dark receiver
Static showers
Down on her

City lights no longer
No lamps here to bother
She calls out for thunder
Fuses skin with undergrowth

She scares crows at midnight
Sparks from flower-flashlight
And when her thoughts surround her
Volts flow from her fauna

Dark receiver
Static showers
Down on her
On her
On her