Midwest Hotel
by The Gaslights
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Old Blue Love
03:16
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Lyrics:
Well I heard that you were leaving
Time had come for you to go
TIme to put away the six string
And head out farther down the road
There's a lady waiting
Under easy southern skies
With your past down in her heart
With your future in her eyes
When you came back to this town
You shook it up, you made it mean
I think you made us all remember
Why we first came to believe
Now you tell me that you're leaving
And I'll forgive you now, only once
You came back for the music
But you left again for love
Well you left again for love Strong and proud
The kind of love that makes you cry out loud
The kind of love the old songs talk about
That old blue love
But if she ever leave you all alone
Angel, you can always come back home
Back to that stage and that microphone
That old blue love
Just remember
The man you leave behind
As you head out of the county
Toward the man you hope to find
He ain't ever gonna leave you
He ain't ever gonna go away
And he might lead you back
To the man you were someday
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2. |
Sweet Marie
03:56
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Lyrics:
She says she's gonna leave this town
Head south and settle down
Find a little room to rent
Try to lose the loneliness
She says she's gonna leave it all
Before she finds another chance to fall
She ain't been the loving kind
She's gonna leave it all behind
I wish you well My sweet Marie
Go out and be the next big thing
But remember, remember, pretty baby
That you can always come back to me
You can always come back to me
She don't need a movie kiss
Someone to take her from all this
She just needs four wheels that roll
With a decent radio
She ways that she's just gonna leave
Head out somewhere where there's room to breathe
Have drinks in brand new bars and
Look up at less broken stars
I wish you well My sweet Marie ...
New secrets to forget
New lovers to regret
New streets to call her own
A new place to be alone
She ways she's gonna head out now
Before the night falls on this town
She ain't been the one to cry, hell
She don't even say goodbye ...
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3. |
Wicked Love
03:43
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Lyrics:
Clouds they cull the rain
out of the Alabama sky
And darkness, she come heavy
like the weight of your goodbye
I should be too old for this
To love the going like I do
Even though the going
takes me far away from you
Wicked love, Honey it ain't no love
No wicked love
This ain't no wicked, wicked love
it ain't no love ...
Free, and no one knows my name
or what the past has done to me
And I lost track of time somewhere
way back in northern Tennessee
Your signal, bouncing in the air
and I can't touch your voice from here
And guilt, she hangs on me
For not missing you the way I should ...
Oh love ...
And it ain't nobody's business
Where I lay my head tonight
And it ain't nobody's business
if it's wrong or if its right
And it ain't nobody's business
if I do or if I don't
Who I choose to stand beside me
If I will or if I won't
You know I won't ...
When I get back we'll pass like trains
Rumbling hard then out again
You'll sit back in that saddle babe and
I'll learn to settle in
But I know how that lostness feels
The rhythm of those six black wheels
And no one taught me how to fall
I learned that one alone ...
Wicked love ...
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4. |
Gone
03:35
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Lyrics:
I think it's my last time listening
to the silence of Missouri snow
All I've got is a nine to five and
there's another one down the road
So I'll pack it in
I've paid my dues
Ante up baby because I don't owe you
I've done all you've asked me to
And now I'm gone
And I'm heading to the land of cypress trees
Where the Midwest cold can't follow me
Heading down where the River don't freeze for long
Baby, I'll be gone
I'll be gone, I'll be gone, Long gone
Well I think it's my last time waiting
For somebody to break my heart
Last time running into my old wrecks
In them River City bars
So I'll knock one back
About last call
I know how you always loved to watch me fall
I never meant a thing at all
Well now I'm gone
I think it's my last time leaving
This old, familiar town
Heaven knows I've tried to make my peace
But I can't settle down
Here I go
Place your bets
I might fail but I haven't yet
All I leave is one regret
That I stayed too long ...
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5. |
Galveston
04:59
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Lyrics:
A hundred miles and back again
Down the road to Galveston
We traveled in the spring
Cut across the Texas night
Back to Houston's city light
I remember everything
You lit my cigarette
You told me I'd be fine
We hadn't said it yet
The last goodbye
The last goodbye
Baby the last goodbye
The last goodbye
I headed south and tried my best
I got back, you headed west
Left me in our empty house
I got the call out from L.A.
There was nothing that you could say
You had to 'figure this out'
So I took down your picture
And I took back my bed
And I started to believe in all them things
I should have said
Like the last goodbye ...
Well, I watched you pull away
You pushed me to the wall
I tied up my boots and I waited for the fall
But when it came it was nothing at all ...
When you finally made it back
Your bags were packed
Sitting just inside my doorway
When I asked you for my key
You gave it back to me
And there was nothing left to say
I lit my cigarette
I told you you'd be fine
And I never will regret
Our last goodbye ...
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6. |
Long Black Veil
03:35
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Lyircs:
Ten years ago, on a cold dark night
There was someone killed 'neath the town hall light
The ones that saw, they all agreed
That the one who ran looked a lot like me
She walks these hills, in along black veil
she visits my grave, when the night winds wail
nobody knows, nobody sees, nobody knows but me
The judge said "Son what is your alibi,
if you were somewhere else then you don't have to die"
I said not a word though it meant my life
for I had been in the arms, of my best friends wife
She walks these hills, in along black veil
she visits my grave, when the night winds wail
nobody knows, nobody sees, nobody knows but me
Well the scaffold is high and eternity is near
she stood in the crowd and shed not a tear
but sometimes at night when the cold wind moans
in a long black vail she cries over my bones
She walks these hills, in along black veil
she visits my grave, when the night winds wail
nobody knows, nobody sees, nobody knows but me
nobody knows, nobody sees, nobody knows but me
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7. |
Magnolia
04:39
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Lyrics:
Another shot of whiskey
and I'll be heading on
Thank you for your patience baby,
thank you for your gun
I'm heading west,
ain't that the way you cowboys always run
Somewhere where you can never find me
Magnolia Road, Magnolia Road
Eight thousand feet to heaven
Heaven knows that I've been told
The snow is going to bury all your fortune
And the wind, its gonna fray your soul
Way up on Magnolia Road
Another red-lipped angel
she's going take your love, I know
And I can't wait around for that
That's why I have to go
I'll find myself a cowboy in that Colorado snow
I'll tell him all about your blue eyes
You took your love away
and heaven knows that that ain't right
I can't wait around this time
I'm not prepared to fight
I'll be half way to Salina before the morning light
I ain't sticking around for "sorry"
Magnolia Road ...
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8. |
I Fall Down
04:33
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Lyrics:
I saw you shining in the sky
just south of Greene County
Outshined, like the fading light
in the evening of December
And I don't know why everything I touch turns to ash
It's a certain sickness I remember
And I fall down, I fall down
I fall down, Angel I fall down
Watch me fall down now ...
I've been broke a thousand times
but I broke clean just once
You're supposed to understand my hurry to the door
We bank our lives on solid things
like steady jobs and women
My boots, they've been my surest bet so far
And I fall down ...
I have watched my heroes break their promises
I have heard them talk their pretty game
Twisted up the truth
Spit it back, dishonest
I don't think I've ever been the same
I'm about as perfect as a blind, three-legged dog
But I would follow you if I could follow anything
Believe me, I remember every word you ever told me
Even all them pure, imperfect things
And I fall down ...
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9. |
Not Again
02:22
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Lyrics:
Baby, let's not get that drunk again
I can't remember half the things I said
I sure as hell ain't seventeen
That whiskey catches up with me
Baby, let's not get that drunk again
It seemed a perfect, innocent decision
We thought we'd have some drinks out at the bar
But as the liquor melted inhibition
We turned into the assholes that we are
We thought we'd have just one or two nice cocktails
Then we were joined by several rowdy friends
And as we started telling all them tall tales
Them one or two turned into nine or ten
Baby, let's not get that drunk again ...
The funny thing about Kentucky whiskey
It can almost always ease your mind
Says "world's finest" right there on the bottle
But it can almost always make you blind
I don't remember dancing on them tables
Or mouthing off to that big fucker Steve
I don't remember throwing up my dinner
I don't remember being asked to leave
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10. |
Sundays & Interstates
04:50
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Lyrics:
I'm sitting here tonight in this old barroom
Same bar that always got me through
Less shaky with the glass, the weather's changing
And I've turned so very far from you
I don't need the whiskey to go on, now
Don't need another drink to drown the pain
I spent the last twelve months down at the rock show
Pretty sure that I forgot your name
And time, ain't it all we ever need
Time, ain't it all we ever need
I dream the last day of the dayshift
Heading out no promises to keep
The bourbon makes the vision warm and heavy
As I slip into my restless sleep
And I'm dreaming of a steel guitar in Memphis
Interstates and Sunday afternoons
The life you never thought that I deserved, my love
The road that took me far from you
Time, ain't it all we ever need ...
I ain't running from the past
I got over that right here
Haunted streets we knew so long before
Them ghosts are gone
Time to move along
This broken town can't hold me anymore
And time, ain't it all we ever need ...
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11. |
So Good
03:50
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Lyrics:
There was trouble that night
When I looked into your eyes
I saw the headlines
There'd be trouble down the line
Well, the timing was all wrong
Out of the wreckage of those promises
But the drinks, they were strong
I was braver than I should have been
Well, are you Man enough to let what's been
Slip to everything that could
Tell me sugar, should I let you in
Why you got to be
Tell me why you got be
So good
Don't you break my heart
And don't you make me cry
I can't take another long goodbye
This could never be right
The taste of your sweat
It all could end tomorrow baby
I never could forget
The way you hold my wrists
The way you make me scream
The way you call me on my bullshit baby
The way you let me dream
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about
This record is for the tough ass ladies and gentleman sweating it out on the stages of Kansas City ... and every single one of you who came to a show, bought a record, sent us shots, kicked us when we were down, or helped us get back up. xoxo.
credits
released May 1, 2004
Abigail Henderson: vocals, guitar
Chris Meck: guitar, vocals
Monty Black: bass
Glen Hockemeier: drums
Created over the spring/summer 2004 at the Rock Salon in downtown Kansas City, MO on 1/2" 8 track analog tape, mixed directly to CDR. Engineereed and Produced by Chris Meck at the Rock Salon, KCMO. Mastered by Dana Detrick-Clark for Serious Vanity Music. No animals, Protools, or Autotunes were harmed in the making of these recordings.
Copyright © 2004 Flyover Records, ASCAP.
Abigail Henderson: vocals, guitar
Chris Meck: guitar, vocals
Monty Black: bass
Glen Hockemeier: drums
Created over the spring/summer 2004 at the Rock Salon in downtown Kansas City, MO on 1/2" 8 track analog tape, mixed directly to CDR. Engineereed and Produced by Chris Meck at the Rock Salon, KCMO. Mastered by Dana Detrick-Clark for Serious Vanity Music. No animals, Protools, or Autotunes were harmed in the making of these recordings.
Copyright © 2004 Flyover Records, ASCAP.
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