Phone Lines

from 17-24 by bess hepner

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5. Phone Lines
Age 19
I wrote this song on a really lonely night in my dorm room. It captures that half-asleep feeling of being alone- wanting someone to hold you in the darkness but holding yourself instead. Letting your eyes get blurry and unfocused even when you so clearly hold the image of the person you love in your mind. It starts out sad and then becomes passionate and angry- why are we sticking to those fucking phone lines?!? We’re supposed to be in a relationship and yet we’re alone all the time!!! I struggle playing this song the most because I really have to tap into that feeling to perform it well, and getting in that space is deeply uncomfortable.

Art: a collage made by Parker Ziegler in 2013 of the driving distance and places we’d been together and apart during our long distance relationship.

lyrics

Why can’t my eyes focus dear
Even when you are so clear to me
Why can’t my eyes focus dear
Even when you are so clear

Why is it darker at night
Before you turn out the lights, my baby?
Why is it darker at night
When my arms are holding me tight?

Why, baby, do I not feel like you even when I hold myself the whole night through
We stick together baby like paper and glue
Then why are we sticking to the phone lines too?

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from 17-24, released April 26, 2019
Album was recorded in 2019 by bess hepner at Rolling Crone Records (engineered by Doug Indrick and produced by Erika Lundahl) (rollingcronerecords.com) in Seattle. Mastered by Steve Turnidge at Ultraviolet Studios (www.arsdivina.com) in Seattle.

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You Are Loved

Oct 2020
17-24

Apr 2019
Like a Child

Oct 2017

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