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All the Way to Petersburg

by John Brennan

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1.
Ten Lights Left 03:07
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White rose on the reverend’s black jacket Don't mean sin is gone Red rose by the magician’s white rabbit Don't mean the show is done Boys and girls play games But not for fun They don't mean nothing by it Just your little gun Red stripes on Old Glory don't mean that This blood has run White stars on a blue field - don't repeat it - We’re all under one Boys and girls play games But not for fun They don't mean nothing by it Just your little gun Go on holding your ground Go and grow your own manna now Ten lights left in town Your fellow sheep Go on holding your ground Go and grow your own manna now Ten lights left in town Your soul to keep
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Train of Sins and Haints 03:06
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Lord if I should die today I don't know what I could say Meet me at them pearly gates Meet me with my sins and haints Guess I'll take the winding road Go out where the plotters go Cry out at the stars in rage You can't take what's ours away Nowhere bound like a castaway Drifting around some island chain Guess it's time to make for the main Lord if I should die today I don't know what I could say Meet me at them pearly gates Meet me with my sins and haints I should fly, I should fly away But I will try to make it better someday Even if it means breaking ranks Lord if I should die today I don't know what I could say Meet me at them pearly gates Meet me with my sins and haints
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May God Bless You 05:26
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Said you'd never look away Said you'd stay in a state of grace Now you look at me so As if you'd seen a ghost I said ‘til death do we part You'd get ahead in fits and starts Now you look at me so Like you'd unbind these ties and go If you turn your back on me I will haunt you If you steal your smile back from me May God bless you Retreat, it's always been your style Limelight blinds you to their wiles But with these others now you show Maybe you’ve needed to be exposed You can always talk to me I'm hear to help, please talk to me You make me feel like I'm a chore You don't care to lie about anymore If you turn your back on me I will haunt you If you steal your smile back from me May God bless you Living with you sometimes Like life with a child of nine When you speak your peace All of history unwinds If I could make you think about That beach in the Carolines Maybe you'd come back down Come back down to me Chain smoking in the cold Coughing ‘til you choke Staring down at your tiny screen Pushing buttons like you’re some big thing Kind of at a certain place Where I need you and I need my space Don't want to feel like I have failed Don't want to leave all my bets on the rails If you turn your back on me I will haunt you If you turn your back on me I will haunt you If you turn your back on me I will haunt you If you steal your smile back from me May God bless you
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Free Things in a Vise 04:41
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Hope you didn't wait up long No it's cool I took a cab home Just tripped in the parking lot And passed out on the couch Me and some work friends We were just talking about What we would like to do and What we could do without Wasn't you I was talking about That blade, it cuts two ways It's the truth, trash caught in the gate Makes me think it's way past time Me and some work friends We were just talking about What we would like to do and What we could do without You say you'd like to know You say you'd like to scry Some future from the stones Do you really need to be shown The place after we fly This cast of hollow bones? So this is what I know A goddam wasted life Wastes everybody's time And every motion foretold A free thing in a vice That gets bent until it folds Yeah I'm being serious I wasn't raised an atheist Ain't as simple as one moment of doubt And what you hide away like a suitcase Me and some work friends We were just talking about Me and some work friends We were just talking about Me and some work friends We were just talking about What we would like to do and What we could do without
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The Conveyor 03:56
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I see it all the time These boys unwind I ain't there to make it fine I ain't there to make it fine Black coffee growing cold Back streets getting old Same names different times After awhile they start to rhyme What goes in is what goes out no greater What goes in is what goes down the conveyor Got a boy of my own He's with his mother at home And I am there to make it fine Just one glass of red wine Then one breaks from the fold Right name and ZIP code Babylon come online I keep the peace in mic time What goes in is what goes out no greater What goes in is what goes down the conveyor I see it all the time These boys on the line I ain't there to make it fine I ain't there to make it fine They throw themselves at the walls Some stick but most fall When they're done speaking their minds They understand who keeps time What goes in is what goes out no greater What goes in is what goes down the conveyor What goes in is what goes out no greater What goes in is what goes down the conveyor
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Won't Hear What You Say 03:19
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Jim's Song 03:12
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There goes old McGuinn Up to the podium again Flag pin on his lapel Crowd comes creeping in Let the song and dance begin To the tune we all know welll It's a new day, a new kind of fight For the old ways keeping us alive Under assault again by the forces of darkness Let's get to the facts These guys they started leaving tracks Fake names, bank accounts There was chatter in the bands Cash changing hands Large sums in small amounts Finally caught a break A lady called crying to say He's a good man come unwound And at the Chesterfield County fairgrounds Tonight he can be found It's a new day, a new kind of fight For the old ways keeping us alive Under assault again by the forces of darkness Hey there old McGuinn I see you finally got your man You got him dead to rights Now listen to me Jim This guy was more boy than man He gave up without a fight This boy he said to me I wasn't trying to be mean Though I half believe he was right I said the law is still the law Ain't my job to make that call As I led him to his black and white It's a new day, a new kind of fight For the old ways keeping us alive Under assault again by the forces of darkness
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All the Way to Petersburg 03:23
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I did leave that shotgun by the door I won't be back round here for some time I'll be thinking about you all the way I'll be thinking about you all the way I know you told me I should not be so inclined Shoot my mouth off with all them Maccabees online I'll be thinking about you all the way I'll be thinking about you all the way They say I'll never see The same way I used to see And they say after twenty I'll be begging them to be free Now I think about how all this came to be My wrists ache from the strain at these confines I'll be thinking about you all the way I'll be thinking about you all the way I'll be thinking about you all the way I'll be thinking about you all the way To Petersburg tonight
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Violet and Gray (bonus track) 03:00
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Hey, he brought you flowers Yeah they look great Beside your other toys Yeah, yeah we know he loves you That's what you don't say And what you're saying It always comes on this way Violet and gray Brave new worlds, pale faces Paler fates Break, if just for a moment You're driving home With the windows rolled down Winters in the South ain't the same As winters in the mountains The frost don't stay, no the frost don't stay It always comes on this way Violet and gray Brave new worlds, pale faces Paler fates Yeah, we know he loves you That's what you don't say And what you're saying

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released August 12, 2017

Recorded at Catalyst Recording, Charlotte, NC.
Engineered by Rob Tavaglione.

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John Brennan - Guitar/Vocals

Daniel Jackson - Drums

Justin Kent - Bass

Grey Revell - Guitar/Vocals

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