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Numbers Stations
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Rock Noir - spy stories
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Hopefully intelligent, upbeat, pop rock - plus multiple other genres and rabbit holes I enter
The band is ME - plus any collaborators I can convince to come along for the ride. I love the process of song writing and production - I hope some others get some enjoyments - or chuckles out of these tunes.
Song Info
Genre
Rock • Progressive Rock
Charts
#627 today Peak #11
#80 in subgenre Peak #3
Author
Ron Tintner
Rights
2025
Uploaded
April 03, 2025
Track Files
MP3
MP3 8.6 MB • 320 kbps • 3:46
Lossless
WAV 38.0 MB
Meta Data
BPM
137
Beat
4/4
Key
A min
Vocals
Male
Character
Danceable
coffee-place
dancefloor
Story behind the song
Stimulated my sense of noir. A numbers station is a shortwave radio station characterized by broadcasts of formatted numbers, which are believed to be addressed to intelligence officers operating in foreign countries. Numbers stations have been reported since at least the start of World War I.
Lyrics
Numbers Stations Ron Tintner (c) 2025, ASCAP V1 There are places on the short-wave radio dial Where there's not a lot of reason to go With seemingly random numbers spoken By passionless voices in monotones German, Russian, English, Czech Irregular days and times Telltale evidence of tradecraft Secret codes and spies Half CHORUS: Numbers stations Sending messages... secret messages V2 I write them down in a notebook Looking for patterns and trends But one-time pads make my mission improbable Odds are it fails in the end Still I keep on trying Pursuing this Sisyphean task Listening, writing, night after night Till its solved at last CHORUS: Numbers stations Sending messages... secret messages Numbers stations Sending messages... Making me crazy BRIDGE: I'm close I'll figure it out And when I do I'll know what and where and when And how and who V3 Their secret plans will be secret no more Ill know their tricks and their plots Mangle their communications You see I'm crazy like a fox If knowledge is power Ill have power to burn (And) pull their strings like (they're) marionettes They'll never learn CHORUS
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