Name: Kate's Song (Queen of Memphis)
Duration: P00H05M24S
Description: This was our first real anthem. The first one that really stuck with people after hearing it live. It's also part of the story line.

Kate's Song (Queen of Memphis)

from All Wires West by The Augustine Reunion

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This was our first real anthem. The first one that really stuck with people after hearing it live. It's also part of the story line.

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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)

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from All Wires West, released November 15, 2021
Micah Spruill - vocals, guitar
Walter Wright - mandolin, vocals
Phil Seaford - drums
Jason "Bird" Seaford - bass
JoAnna Lynne - vocals
Adam Hatfield - lead guitar

Recorded by Tim Roberts at Soul Haven Studios, Virginia Beach
Mastered by Chris Kendrick
Written by Micah Spruill

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