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Lines and Wires

by The Gaslights

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Lines and Wires 04:06
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Lyrics: It ain't the money that's the happiness, but laying down to sleep knowing I don't owe them anything and they can't keep me This pretty welfare music You know, it doesn't pay the rent The cost lies in how much of me I spent And the lines out on the highway mark my memories now These four wheels might be all that I own But there wouldn't be no cover bands if someone didn't sing it right I'm in it now for life 6am come early after being out all night Sweating through the hope That this might be alright But I'll be there on Sunday, dog-eyed and unafraid That your paycheck gonna keep me From a promise that I made Same bar in a different town That same familiar smell And the same unrepentant angels I'll meet again in hell
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A Place To Fall 04:26
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Lyrics: Miles of corn and farm machines You got your pulp paper magazines Thing about them small town dreams They can kill you Mama tried to raise you right Into a good south Missouri wife With the bricks of God and sacrifice that built you She bought a one way ticket on a one way track She ain't coming back, that's all She went looking for a place to fall Sick of waiting on her heart's desire The little girl's just full of fire, that's all She went looking for a place to fall No one seemed to understand it You had a different plan Even that ring on your left hand Wouldn't break it You packed your bag you said good bye you didn't leave a reason why Cause a chance don't come back twice unless you take it Your daddy worked his hands Until they cracked, until they bled He was the wisest man you'd ever found And on the day you left When your mama hung her head He said, "She'll get there, she'll just take the long way round" For twenty years you built a life Beneath those New York City lights With the blood and gut and sacrifice that made you You fell in love, you had a child She grew up tall, she grew up wild How could that devil in her smile amaze you When she buys a one way ticket on a one way track She ain't coming back, that's all She went looking for a place to fall Sick of waiting on her heart's desire Your little girl's just full of fire, that's all ...
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Tattoo 04:16
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Lyrics: Ain't it funny how all the plans we made Have turned into all the dreams that we've betrayed And ain't it funny how that sweet sixteen tattoo Ain't so pretty now Coming up on 32 But those days are gone Never ours to hold Never ours to hold, for very long But I still have the songs When the night comes down Over here, on my side of town Do you remember the songs we used to sing You had a hot guitar and oh honey you were the king We used to drink all night and chase them girls around Now you got a mortgage over on the high-class side of town Well I went to school so they could teach me how to write Scribble down the history of some great life But of all the fools I've known and the pain I've seen Happiness is somewhere in the miles between ...
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One Night 03:42
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Lyrics: Spent a week in the van with the band last night West Kentucky highway tried to put up a fight I've come north from a land with a rhinestone crowd Where even when you turn it down you're playing too loud And the cold wind gonna cut us to the bone But I won't let you go alone Crosses in the windows of the Chevrolets And I ain't seen a Democrat in thirteen days And Jesus gonna save me, so say the signs That keep preaching from the highwayside Oh good Lord, send your wrath on down on me I promise, it ain't nothing I ain't seen Alabama stars fall on a January midnight Between the cold moon and the pines Somewhere in the blackness, what I've been and what I will be Rolling past the window out on the driver's side Haven't had time much to stop and think Give it to me straight over two stiff drinks Then hand me ten bucks, sugar, that'll pay For all I got left now to give away And the heartbreak on that last one isn't you But tonight you'll have to do
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God, Guns, and Glory 03:41
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Lyrics: You stand up with your cross Your armies by your side But nothing good has ever come When God and guns collide History's a fingerprint You easily dismiss Some folks call that arrogance The rest call that your gift Give me God and guns and glory Give me cash and apple pie So them rich old white men can dream up wars For the young, poor kids to die Give me a twenty-one gun on your front lawn Keep me stone drunk on your lies So I can't see the truth of that big train coming Through my sweet star-spangled eyes Through my star-spangled eyes The machinery of circumstance has brought us to this place There is no victory in it Wipe that smirk off of your face I think your silent partner He don't know the fire you preach "Teach a man to fish" I think he said Then let him be So you're out there spreading freedom with your pyrotechnic show Well hoss, it' ain't a walk-on In some global Alamo Your macho cowboy taglines, man They're gonna get us killed If you don't understand that I guess you never will So you're a man of faith What faith is that, do tell Cause in the Book I read When you lie you go to hell You might be exempt from that As you were born again The rest of us will remember every single sin
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Pole Trick 02:45
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Lyrics: Well the smell of women The stink of gin Those rings of smoke It's the oldest sin And she's long and tall In them reeling lights Someone's gonna break your heart tonight Well it's just a job She's got her bills to pay She's gonna smile and shake And walk away She don't want to know your name Or see you in daylight Someone's gonna break your heart tonight Oh well now darling Oh you're so pretty Put on those heels Go on, go pick a name And then they shake their heads They say, "Oh, what a pity" But there ain't no shame in how the game is played She don't want to take you home Or be your friend She makes a living on the fault of men She turns a dollar on a thing that's pure The only thing lead you back for more Well, she got a kid at home A man who left She got a framed degree Man, she did her best It didn't turn the way She thought it might Someone's gonna break your heart tonight Oh well now, darlin' Oh you're so pretty Up in those heels Tell me baby, is that your name? And then they shake their heads They say "Oh what a pity," But there ain't no shame in how the game is played
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Pirate 03:33
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Lyrics: Cut the thunder from beneath him When a man has done his best Leave him there with nothing He's built far more with less You can try to kill old pirates But you will not kill them all They know smaller men than you rise up And they know far greater fall It's the story of the life you tried to break the life between The wheels that grind the living And the hands that grip the dream And the words don't lose their meaning After the song is gone They warm the dark, cold heart of doubt And beg me to go on And they say that you're a dark and angry malcontent And they call me a mouthy little fool But if you make it to my side Of the great divide I will be waiting, waiting here for you Well it might not fit your easy plan But it's the simple proof It will cut and bleed you dry And heal you with the truth You can try to kill old pirates But you will not kill them all They know smaller men than you rise up And they know far greater fall
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Trashed 04:33
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Lyrics: Well honey do you remember How it didn't last The color of rain And how the water came fast And all that we had It was nothing I guess Let's split up the possessions Just leave the rest baby Someone will find it Out on the street Just leave it Someone will find it They'll pick it up But it was never enough Well honey do you remember I hung up your shirts And I watched by the window I watched you come home from work And I wrote you letters One for every day But you didn't call There was nothing, nothing to say baby Well I hope you're happy I hope she's treating you right Hope she don't mind the devil That keep you out all night And you were so green And I was so young And I should've known better I knew that all along
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Stars Fall 03:25
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Lyrics: I want you to hold me Broken as I am Can you fit the pieces In your hands I'm lost, out and wandering Far to the end We watch the stars Fall on Kansas again You told me that fire was a beautiful thing Brilliant and rising and true It can catch you and burn in forever Scorch the last pieces of you Tell me it's worth it, the heat and the heartache The slow dying ember The flame And I'll stand here burning The walls of your heart Til the stars fall on Kansas again
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Colored Lights 04:05
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Lyrics: You were just a girl Barely seventeen They locked your spirit up They threw away the key It was a dusty high You stumbled through To the other side Of that myth they made of you And the colored lights Those colored lights Strung across the porch On your granddaddy's fishing line And he's crossed over Over to the other side But those colored lights they shine Your sweet mama never wanted any trouble She gave you books and pretty things Cursed you with a quick tongue and her good looks Oh well, mama she expected greater things You were the first one to go bad Just like some awful dream that no one had Out on the riverbank You stood alone Green water cooled Your July bones Pull them dirty secrets Down from your hair Let the Finley River roll And let them disappear
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Red Dirt 04:53
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Lyrics: My daddy came from Georgia Like his daddy'd come before Coated with the red dirt dust And the stink of being poor On the outskirts of Atlanta That's where his mama died Bottle in her hand My father by her side Well they shipped him up to Detroit Then they moved him back down south Bitter ringing in his ears And a bad taste in his mouth Well the family spread the family Up and down the migrant line He landed right back in a place He would've killed to leave behind You can't knock The red dirt off It's in your teeth It's in your bones It's in your blood And that's the cost You pay for never, never, never going home Well he grew up tall and crooked He grew up strong and mean Eyes deep as the Georgia dark And full of all they'd seen And them Southern Baptist Sundays well They tempered what they could But the day that child hit seventeen He was gone for good Some things you don't get over Some things you don't outlive Time can't give them back Some things you don't forgive You've been running now for fifty years And the race cannot be won You're as much somebody's father now As you were somebody's son g
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One Trick Pony 03:37
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Lyrics: The only song I've ever known Is the song of letting go Three chords and someone moving on That's my one trick pony song In a pretty house somewhere In the apartment up the stairs Eyes were wide and plans were made Someone was finally left betrayed The beauty of how it begins Is always lost in how it ends Empty hearts they turn to stone To face another day alone I always trusted like a fool That's how I ended up this cruel Gun-shy, broke, and worse for wear And it was love that brought me here The only song I've ever known Is the song of letting go Three chords and someone moving on That's my one trick pony song But I will give you all that's left Someone already ran off with the rest But what remains is what is true And that belongs to you What remains is what is true Now that belongs to you

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To all those who came to the shows, bought a record, let us sleep on their floors, fed us bacon, booked our band, sang it back and danced.

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released May 1, 2005

Abigail Henderson: vocals, guitar
Chris Meck: guitar
Johnny Eggerman: bass
Glen Hockemeier: drums

Created over the spring/summer 2005 in Kansas City, MO. Engineereed by Chad Meise, Justin Petosa, and Chris Meck at AudioHut Studio A, KCMO. Mixed by The Dimmer Twins (Justin Petosa and Chris Meck) at West End Recording Studio B, Kansas City, KS. Produced by The Dimmer Twins. Mastered by Collin Jordan at The Boiler Room, Chicago, IL. No animals, Protools, or Autotunes were harmed in the making of these recordings.

Copyright © 2005 Flyover Records, ASCAP.

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