[Verse 1]
Signal fading, listen to what I'm saying
Testing, testing
This better be worth all of the breath I'm wasting
Maintaining radio silence from now on

[Verse 2]
Barricaded in the talk radio station
Hostage taken, the red "On Air" light shines on
Something cheaper that passes for free speech
Will have to do

[Bridge 1]
Hear him coming through loud and clear
He's trickling in your ear
He'll tell you anything
You want to hear

[Verse 3]
The tape starts running, he's going to tell you something
The strings start strumming, another humdrum conundrum
Signing off now
Maintaining radio silence from now on

[Bridge 2]
But there's one thing I should have said
"The hostage will end up dead"
It's just a comedy
The hostage is me
[Verse 4]
So pay the ransom beyond the run-out groove and
Get my wife down here, a helicopter on the roof
No police marksman
Maintaining radio silence from now on

[Verse 5]
Mystery voices drowned out by too much choice that's
Not to mention the sad waste of this
Wonderful invention
Maintaining radio silence from now on

[Bridge 3]
Libraries filled up with failed ideas
There's nothing more for me there
I trust in tender ink
And gentle airs

[Verse 6]
Do those drug dealers still polish women made of wax?
Gangsters and world leaders require the same protection
From attack, from a distance it's hard to tell the difference
'Tween a king and a jack, and a poet and a hack
Maintaining radio silence from now on