Lines and Wires

by The Gaslights

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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 01 May 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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Track Name: Lines and Wires
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
Track Name: A Place To Fall
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 ...
Track Name: Tattoo
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 ...
Track Name: One Night
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
Track Name: God, Guns, and Glory
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
Track Name: Pole Trick
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
Track Name: Pirate
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
Track Name: Trashed
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
Track Name: Stars Fall
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
Track Name: Colored Lights
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
Track Name: Red Dirt
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
Track Name: One Trick Pony
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