Down the Line

from Cadillac Motel by Dogs on Main Street

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Listen on the wind
All the corner boys are restless, scattered
Cinders still smoking

Ah, to begin again
Just another stranded soldier, a bleeding hammer
A broken hymn

All these years I been working
To make them mine
A path unpaved, a promise made,
Just something down the line

I am haunted still
By a scarecrow ghost at every street lamppost
Old ruin I cannot rebuild

I guess it ain't yet willed
But as my country burns, and those to take still earn
It seems a people's dream is killed

And by morning I may surely hang
For thinking of this kind
I will always ache for every fearful face
Unfurling down the line

Watch me shiver across your room
As the ruffles of your skirt tails flutter
Skipping past the tombs

How did it get so blue?
Between the blinding rain and my wicked chains
She smiles, "Your trouble is your truth.

With all your dancing through the dark,
It's hard to keep in time.
All we can hope is for to stay afloat,
Some goodness down the line."

Listen on the wind
I'm a-burning back to them crooked tracks
To where all of this begins

If time would only bend
Then we could frame a path, and make the flashes last,
Write this romantic dream an end

But tonight I think I call their bluff
With just a pair of nines
And we can find our faded form to fight it
Somewhere down the line

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from Cadillac Motel, released January 14, 2022

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