Favorite Son Volt/Uncle Tupelo/Jay song
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You nailed it. This has been my favorite song period (not just Farrar song) since I heard a pre-release cassette of Trace. I have had other favorites at other times, but I seem to always come back to this. I saw SV play that outdoor country festival in Soldier Field in Chicago last October. It was "Columbus Day" weekend, and if I wasn't so shy I would have yelled out a request for "Out of the Picture."lewhoney wrote:Out of the Picture --
"Take away this Columbus day, no more bones on display/ Black Hawk never had his say..."
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Interesting...I almost never hear this song mentioned anywhere. But, hey, for what it's worth,Left A Slide wrote:camaroheadus wrote:THERE IS A SLOWNESS ON THE THROTTLE
A CIVILITY AT HAND
PAINTED OUT OF A CORNER
BRAIDS TO BIND THE STRANDS
TO DECIDE WITHIN THE BARNSTORM
OVER SHADOWS FEEDING IN THE LURCH
JUST SURVIVED BY A STONE'S THROW
THE DECISION WHEELS AT WORK
PEACE BE FOUND IF TEMPORARY
SIRENS STIR THE SEEDS OF REGRET
GATHERED CLOUDS ARE UNLEASHING
SIGNS TO WALK THEN PLACE YOUR BET
THE SQUATTERS ON HIGH STATIONS
THE TALKERS THAT HOLD SWAY
THE VERBAL BACKSLIDE RUSHES OUT
LIKE GRAPESHOT FINDS PREY
NO ANCHOR DROP SANCTUARY
NO EARMARKED BEACONS TO SHOW
NO FINDING YET UNCOVERED
JUST A WIDE SWING TREMOLO
BROKEN DOWN LESSONS LEARNED
REDEEMED ON EPITAPHS
BY BLINDFOLDED REGULARS
WITH COUNTENANCE TO SWITCHBACK
ECHO FAREWELL TO MIDNIGHT
TO THE LONELINESS OF THE CHASE
TO THE MINUTES PASSED AS RED-LETTER
TO ELYSIAN FIELDS DEFACED
NO PANGS PROVIDE DELIVERY
BREAKING OUT OF THE THROES
NO REVERIE DECIDED
JUST A WIDE SWING TREMOLO
NO MERCY IN A POKERFACE
LEND AN EAR BEFORE YOU GO
NO SENTENCE YET DECIDED
JUST A WIDE SWING TREMOLO
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camaroheadus wrote:THERE IS A SLOWNESS ON THE THROTTLE
A CIVILITY AT HAND
PAINTED OUT OF A CORNER
BRAIDS TO BIND THE STRANDS
TO DECIDE WITHIN THE BARNSTORM
OVER SHADOWS FEEDING IN THE LURCH
JUST SURVIVED BY A STONE'S THROW
THE DECISION WHEELS AT WORK
PEACE BE FOUND IF TEMPORARY
SIRENS STIR THE SEEDS OF REGRET
GATHERED CLOUDS ARE UNLEASHING
SIGNS TO WALK THEN PLACE YOUR BET
THE SQUATTERS ON HIGH STATIONS
THE TALKERS THAT HOLD SWAY
THE VERBAL BACKSLIDE RUSHES OUT
LIKE GRAPESHOT FINDS PREY
NO ANCHOR DROP SANCTUARY
NO EARMARKED BEACONS TO SHOW
NO FINDING YET UNCOVERED
JUST A WIDE SWING TREMOLO
BROKEN DOWN LESSONS LEARNED
REDEEMED ON EPITAPHS
BY BLINDFOLDED REGULARS
WITH COUNTENANCE TO SWITCHBACK
ECHO FAREWELL TO MIDNIGHT
TO THE LONELINESS OF THE CHASE
TO THE MINUTES PASSED AS RED-LETTER
TO ELYSIAN FIELDS DEFACED
NO PANGS PROVIDE DELIVERY
BREAKING OUT OF THE THROES
NO REVERIE DECIDED
JUST A WIDE SWING TREMOLO
NO MERCY IN A POKERFACE
LEND AN EAR BEFORE YOU GO
NO SENTENCE YET DECIDED
JUST A WIDE SWING TREMOLO
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THERE IS A SLOWNESS ON THE THROTTLE
A CIVILITY AT HAND
PAINTED OUT OF A CORNER
BRAIDS TO BIND THE STRANDS
TO DECIDE WITHIN THE BARNSTORM
OVER SHADOWS FEEDING IN THE LURCH
JUST SURVIVED BY A STONE'S THROW
THE DECISION WHEELS AT WORK
PEACE BE FOUND IF TEMPORARY
SIRENS STIR THE SEEDS OF REGRET
GATHERED CLOUDS ARE UNLEASHING
SIGNS TO WALK THEN PLACE YOUR BET
THE SQUATTERS ON HIGH STATIONS
THE TALKERS THAT HOLD SWAY
THE VERBAL BACKSLIDE RUSHES OUT
LIKE GRAPESHOT FINDS PREY
NO ANCHOR DROP SANCTUARY
NO EARMARKED BEACONS TO SHOW
NO FINDING YET UNCOVERED
JUST A WIDE SWING TREMOLO
BROKEN DOWN LESSONS LEARNED
REDEEMED ON EPITAPHS
BY BLINDFOLDED REGULARS
WITH COUNTENANCE TO SWITCHBACK
ECHO FAREWELL TO MIDNIGHT
TO THE LONELINESS OF THE CHASE
TO THE MINUTES PASSED AS RED-LETTER
TO ELYSIAN FIELDS DEFACED
NO PANGS PROVIDE DELIVERY
BREAKING OUT OF THE THROES
NO REVERIE DECIDED
JUST A WIDE SWING TREMOLO
NO MERCY IN A POKERFACE
LEND AN EAR BEFORE YOU GO
NO SENTENCE YET DECIDED
JUST A WIDE SWING TREMOLO
A CIVILITY AT HAND
PAINTED OUT OF A CORNER
BRAIDS TO BIND THE STRANDS
TO DECIDE WITHIN THE BARNSTORM
OVER SHADOWS FEEDING IN THE LURCH
JUST SURVIVED BY A STONE'S THROW
THE DECISION WHEELS AT WORK
PEACE BE FOUND IF TEMPORARY
SIRENS STIR THE SEEDS OF REGRET
GATHERED CLOUDS ARE UNLEASHING
SIGNS TO WALK THEN PLACE YOUR BET
THE SQUATTERS ON HIGH STATIONS
THE TALKERS THAT HOLD SWAY
THE VERBAL BACKSLIDE RUSHES OUT
LIKE GRAPESHOT FINDS PREY
NO ANCHOR DROP SANCTUARY
NO EARMARKED BEACONS TO SHOW
NO FINDING YET UNCOVERED
JUST A WIDE SWING TREMOLO
BROKEN DOWN LESSONS LEARNED
REDEEMED ON EPITAPHS
BY BLINDFOLDED REGULARS
WITH COUNTENANCE TO SWITCHBACK
ECHO FAREWELL TO MIDNIGHT
TO THE LONELINESS OF THE CHASE
TO THE MINUTES PASSED AS RED-LETTER
TO ELYSIAN FIELDS DEFACED
NO PANGS PROVIDE DELIVERY
BREAKING OUT OF THE THROES
NO REVERIE DECIDED
JUST A WIDE SWING TREMOLO
NO MERCY IN A POKERFACE
LEND AN EAR BEFORE YOU GO
NO SENTENCE YET DECIDED
JUST A WIDE SWING TREMOLO
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As of right now its... Punchdrunk, no wait... Postcard.
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So much promise with so much pain
Surveying eyes overloaded again
No signs to follow and the road is dark
16 miles out of Denver was slow
2000 markers more to go
Criss-crossing the country so many believe in
You’re out there doing what you would die for
Believing there’s no turning back
Let’s take the cities that railroads built
Shipping lines and immigrants
Like Leadbelly says no use for the
Bourgousie towns
Reno—San Antonio
Elko—Nuevo Laredo
You’re beat and bleeding
But stubbornly shining
Trying not to wear hearts on sleeves
But that’s the way it seems to always be
The salt and the steel of the breath
Of those not keeping still
I look for you and I know you’re out there
In this mind we breathe the same air
Lonely roads and freight trains
Will keep us sane
You’re out there doing what you would die for
Believing till there’s no turning back
Five minutes from now it'll be "Methamphetamine."
Surveying eyes overloaded again
No signs to follow and the road is dark
16 miles out of Denver was slow
2000 markers more to go
Criss-crossing the country so many believe in
You’re out there doing what you would die for
Believing there’s no turning back
Let’s take the cities that railroads built
Shipping lines and immigrants
Like Leadbelly says no use for the
Bourgousie towns
Reno—San Antonio
Elko—Nuevo Laredo
You’re beat and bleeding
But stubbornly shining
Trying not to wear hearts on sleeves
But that’s the way it seems to always be
The salt and the steel of the breath
Of those not keeping still
I look for you and I know you’re out there
In this mind we breathe the same air
Lonely roads and freight trains
Will keep us sane
You’re out there doing what you would die for
Believing till there’s no turning back
Five minutes from now it'll be "Methamphetamine."