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All Wires West

by The Augustine Reunion

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1.
Turn the headlights on That damn transmission’s gone But we’re gonna get so far away from here This tired town Grown up, so different now I’m heading west without no tears And as the road lines start to blur We keep on moving on Because their ain’t no going home Calling all wires west Out in the darkness Sending all my best Out on all wires west now Girls in cheap perfume Dive bars and hotel rooms Hitting each and every truck stop on the way Turn the house lights down Pack up and leave this town And get miles and miles away By the time I’m missing home We’re halfway on our way But every time I hit that stage Calling all wires west Out in the darkness These sins that I confess Out on all wires west now ** Calling all wires west Out in the darkness Sending all my best Out on all wires west now Calling all wires west Out in the darkness These sins that I confess Out on all wires west now
2.
Greener eyes Two times said goodbye And it took More than a man to save this world Smiles and tears Fifteen loving years And I’ve been sitting here Thinking about a girl Beauty in full bloom Met your eyes across the room I was defied to define this fire You lit in my soul Months went slipping by I had your face stuck in my mind And when November stole a kiss I knew it’d never get old Is that so wrong? Now I finally wrote you this song Ain’t no love like Marie Would a better man be better at telling her so? Am I everything you hoped I could be ‘Cause you were coming up strong And I was moving along Now the years gone by They simply fan the flames There ain’t no star in my sky That could outshine your name And I’m fumbling over words Mostly drunk and half-asleep This river runs wide But I still don’t know how deep Know how deep And I got this promise to keep Ain’t no love like Marie Would a better man be better at telling her so? Am I everything you hoped I could be ‘Cause you were coming up strong And I was moving along ** Ain’t no love like Marie Would a better man be better at telling her so? Am I everything you hoped I could be ‘Cause you were coming up strong And I was moving along Now I finally wrote you this song Is that so wrong?
3.
Danny was just seventeen (When) he joined the fire brigade Half his life he gave to the fight That lesser men had made Raised him up a family A wife and three young kids And when his youngest was just a boy The fires they did him in Here’s one to the firefighters’ union They step in to battle down the flames The bravest souls become the coals On which their war was waged But the war will always Outlive their names Christopher was a strong man (He) stepped up to the blaze And fought alongside the boldest men The lord had ever made ‘Til he ran into an apartment fire Made it two stories high When the floor gave out from under his feet Well, that’s how heroes die Here’s one to the firefighters’ union They step in to battle down the flames The bravest souls become the coals On which their war was waged But the war will always Outlive their names So come on meet me down at the bar And order up a drink And take a shot to the friends we’ve lost To make our sorrows sink Bow your head to the wall We stand and we fall And we say our prayers in fear And if we want to honor their memories Well we can send them up this cheer Yeah we can send them up this beer! Here’s one to the firefighters’ union They step in to battle down the flames The bravest souls become the coals On which their war was waged But the war will always Outlive their names Here’s one to the firefighters’ union They perish by the flame or by the fall And old age take the rest The brightest, best They answer up that call But the fire, she will outlive us all
4.
Killin' Kind 03:27
Now that it’s all over I hang my head and cry ‘Cause the love we had Was the killin’ kind Used to be great Used to be-autiful, babe The music that we made It’s quiet now I could never change I know that now, seems so strange The promises we made They’re all broken now Now that it’s all over I hang my head and cry ‘Cause the love we had Was the killin’ kind Now it’s gone away I can’t go, it hurts to stay But don’t look at me, babe I’m turning ‘round I could never change I know that now, seem so insane The promises we made These hearts are broken now Now that it’s all over Hang my head and cry ‘Cause the love we had IT WAS KILLIN’ ** Now that it’s all over Hang my head and cry So we must admit It was the killin’ kind
5.
Sleepless 04:45
I won’t stand in line Bitter hearts and tears I’ve cried tonight I won’t be here all this time I won’t come around Witness slow death in this town tonight This is where I draw the line And I wait all along the frontline For you to come back home This porch gets so lonely sometimes And I wait alone to see daylight Suffer through this sleepless night Here I am with heart in hand, but you You just come home anytime If you could only listen You’d see what this has been missing and I I won’t hold your hand this time I won’t come around Witness slow death in this town tonight This is where I draw the line And I wait all along the frontline For you to come back home This porch gets so lonely sometimes And I wait alone to see daylight Suffer through this sleepless night Here I am with heart in hand, but you You just come home anytime ** And I wait alone to see daylight Suffer through this sleepless night Here I am with heart in hand Here I am with heart in hand And I wait alone to see daylight Suffer through this sleepless night Here I am with heart in hand, but you You just come home anytime
6.
Bethesda 04:39
Here sits a hospital bed A once-empty canvas painted in you And while all of your colors run out Your lips turn their last shade of blue Where are those simple times? The simple life we used to live? Where every dream I’ve ever had Was of what our new life could give So what am I supposed to dream now? You’re leaving me cold ‘Cause ever since Texas I put all my life into you Remember California How we lived when our love was still new Now there’s a half-written verse ‘Cause I knew the melody, but you knew the words And when I’m all alone in our bed All I can do is hum this tune in my head About the sickness that struck you and took you from me In the depths of the Mediterranean Sea And well, honey how can I sing out? Your harmony’s gone ‘Cause ever since Texas I put all my life into you Remember California How we lived when our love was still new So our love will stay young when this story’s told How I held your hand ‘til your body got cold When I sit our two youngest down on our bed Will they understand when I tell them That ever since Texas I put all my life into you Remember California How your love just kept pulling me through And now we got Virginia And we’re five now when we were once two But if I leave Bethesda alone Honey, I just don’t know what I’ll do
7.
Driving wheels, riding brakes All of my friends, they pulled up stakes Made their way across this land Somewhere out in the desert, man They moved to California They moved far out West And they always told me It’s all for the best It’s all for the best They blame it on jobs and family To me it’s just manifest destiny And all that’s left is their silhouettes Chasing the sun down to where it sets Way out in California Out to the Golden State And I can’t help thinking Maybe that’s my fate They moved to San Francisco The desert and L.A. Someday soon now, baby I’m gonna make my way I’m gonna live in California I’m gonna brave the Pacific coast Momma, don’t say I didn’t warn ya’ I’m gonna make my way They moved to California Out to the Golden State And I can’t help thinking When’s my turn, ‘cause that’s my fate, ya’ see They moved to San Diego Moved back to Monterey Someday soon now, baby I’m gonna make my way I’m gonna live in California I’m gonna brave the Pacific coast Momma, don’t say I didn’t warn ya’ Consider me a ghost
8.
Rails stretching out across this earth Wonders of nature transected by wonders of man More than a hundred ways to go And every one of them is just another way back home I’m so sick of burying friends Funeral pyre frequent flyer Seems like it never ends ‘Cause it’s a wedding then a requiem A birth and then a wake And honey, I don’t know just how much more of this I can take ‘Cause there’s no fun in getting old (there’s no fun in getting old) There’s no sense in growing up (there’s no sense in growing up) You gotta make your own way, girl ‘Cause there’s no prize for showing up Come the morning, I’ll be leaving Through the fog on a train First train to anything but here ‘Cause I ain’t the first soul To hop that old transcontinental Let me make this one thing clear: Where I gotta go Honey, you can’t follow me You can keep on breaking my skin There may come a time that it won’t grow back again And pretty soon your memories will be all that’s left of me ‘Cause I feel no more at home than the first day I got free ‘Cause there’s no fun in getting old (there’s no fun in getting old) Don’t get lost in growing up (don’t get lost in growing up) You gotta make your own way, girl ‘Cause there’s no prize for showing up Come the morning, I’ll be leaving Through the fog on a train First train to anything but here ‘Cause I ain’t the first soul To hop that old transcontinental Let me make this one thing clear: Where I gotta go Honey, that’s just where I’ll be Come the morning, I’ll be leaving Through the fog on a train First train to anything but here ‘Cause I ain’t the first soul To hop that old transcontinental Man, I’m out of here
9.
She woke up in Dallas not quite alone In a fancy hotel 450 miles from home Slowly got dressed as the sun hit the street Another day, another job, ends another week Mascara, black dress, last night’s champagne Took a train back to Memphis, to do it all again Men with big cars, stars out on the road With a ticket stub for yesterday and the money she owed Open that door, struck out on her own She’s just so damn beautiful, she walks alone Faces change, broken hearts stay the same She’s the queen of Memphis But no one knows her real name She gave up that ghost so long ago That’s the price, now, for fortune and fame Now she heads to the bar to drown in some drink Quick trip to the bathroom, pulls a line off the tank She can’t grow old, her fortune’s in her youth Says an old woman sitting all alone in a booth If it weren’t for those eyes and that wavy black hair She’d be working in this bar making fifteen a year She get’s a drink, how could anyone think She’s the queen of Memphis But no one knows her real name Said she don’t know just how long she can go Now she’s just so damn sick of this game Don’t give up so soon ‘Cause if you can’t stand the sun Girl, you’ll always have the moon Hope in the bottle, faith in the blade Doubt in every choice you made She’s the queen of Memphis But no one knows her real name She gave up that ghost so long ago That’s the price, now, for fortune and fame Yeah (queen)
10.
Settling 02:55
There’s cracks in the plaster Running up the wall And honey, it seems none of our pictures Want to hang straight anymore There always seems a creaking board Underneath my feet And I won’t be the ghost Living on your street This house This house is settling Settling down This house This house is settling But how long ‘til it gives into the ground? What do you think we’ll see When we rip up that floor ‘Cause this once-indelible structure Ain’t the rock it was before But seasons change Can we rebuild this home we used to love? ‘Cause honey, this can’t be the place That we’ve been dreaming of This house This house is settling Settling down This house This house is settling But we can still turn this around ** This house This house is settling Settling down This house This house is settling This house This house is settling Settling down This house This house is settling But how long ‘til it gives into the ground? But how long ‘til it gives into the ground?
11.
Here sits a hospital bed A once-empty canvas painted in you And while all of your colors run out Your lips turn their last shade of blue Where are those simple times? The simple life we used to live? Where every dream I’ve ever had Was of what our new life could give So what am I supposed to dream now? You’re leaving me cold ‘Cause ever since Texas I put all my life into you Remember California How we lived when our love was still new Now there’s a half-written verse ‘Cause I knew the melody, but you knew the words And when I’m all alone in our bed All I can do is hum this tune in my head About the sickness that struck you and took you from me In the depths of the Mediterranean Sea And well, honey how can I sing out? Your harmony’s gone ‘Cause ever since Texas I put all my life into you Remember California How we lived when our love was still new So our love will stay young when this story’s told How I held your hand ‘til your body got cold When I sit our two youngest down on our bed Will they understand when I tell them That ever since Texas I put all my life into you Remember California How your love just kept pulling me through And now we got Virginia And we’re five now when we were once two But if I leave Bethesda alone Honey, I just don’t know what I’ll do

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released November 15, 2021

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