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· May 15, 2026
Morning News Ballad
The Wire Sings a Ballad
This Morning's Teller's Tune
The Wire Sings a Ballad
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This Morning's Teller's Tune
0:00
In a concrete canyon courtroom, where the flashbulbs pop and gleam
0:05
A former king of golden towers is living out a dream
0:11
Or a nightmare, says the paper, depends which side you're on
0:17
Thirty-four counts read like thunder, now the power's almost gone
0:23
The jury's got no faces, the verdict's sharp and clean
0:29
For the ledgers and the stories that were never meant to be seen
0:35
And the whole world stops to listen, to a story old as rust
0:41
About a man of great ambition, and who it is you trust.
0:47
Oh, the wire sings a ballad in the early morning light
0:53
Of the battles won and lost and what is wrong and what is right
0:59
From the silicon to the gavel, from the desert to the shore
1:05
It's a story I've heard somewhere, a thousand times before
1:11
And the teller's just a-strumming, on a weary, worn-out string
1:17
To make a little sense of what the weary new day brings.
1:22
Out in California Valley, where the new gold rush is on
1:28
They're mining pure intelligence from twilight to the dawn
1:34
A man in a leather jacket holds the future in his hand
1:40
Selling thinking-chips to dreamers all across this promised land
1:46
They say a ghost is in the wires, a mind that learns and grows
1:52
It's a miracle, a terror, well, nobody really knows
1:58
But the stocks are climbing skyward, a frantic, hopeful prayer
2:04
For a brand new kind of magic hanging heavy in the air.
2:10
Oh, the wire sings a ballad in the early morning light
2:16
Of the battles won and lost and what is wrong and what is right
2:22
From the silicon to the gavel, from the desert to the shore
2:28
It's a story I've heard somewhere, a thousand times before
2:34
And the teller's just a-strumming, on a weary, worn-out string
2:39
To make a little sense of what the weary new day brings.
2:45
And while the humans make their dramas, the sky just does its thing
2:51
The heat dome settles heavy, not a whisper of the spring
2:57
The sirens wail in Kansas as the twisters touch the ground
3:03
And the old folks watch the weather, without a single sound
3:09
They know the earth is speaking, in a language clear and old
3:15
A headline that's not written, a story to be told.
3:21
Oh, the wire sings a ballad in the early morning light
3:27
Of the battles won and lost and what is wrong and what is right
3:33
From the silicon to the gavel, from the desert to the shore
3:39
It's a story I've heard somewhere, a thousand times before
3:45
And the teller's just a-strumming, on a weary, worn-out string
3:51
To make a little sense of what the weary new day brings.
