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America, Location 12

by Dispatch

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1.
Be Gone 06:00
Come down low To the ground Let the mother breathe you down All the spirits swirling away Hard to tell the form that they Take up your arms Find your heart Does it know what you’ll do Come and stand Side by side Woman, man and the battles at night Boil that bark Braid my hair See that smoke hell if I care To write all my lost brothers Only to burn the letters So they reach you somewhere Be gone be gone be gone Said the little one to the bad ways Be gone be gone be gone Let the fight be for another day Dare to write all my lost brothers Only to burn the letters So they reach you somewhere Be gone be gone be gone Said the little one to the bad ways Be gone be gone be gone Let the fight be for another day And i though that my mind was folding in And I hoped that it wasn’t the rain And he spoke of holy rollers, how they glide across the hall And he pictured them in carousels when they were two feet tall And he wakes up in the eye of the watchmakers dirty glass And he swims for all the decoys and the lives that they pass Be gone be gone be gone Said the little one to the bad ways Be gone be gone be gone Let the fight be for another day Be gone be gone be gone Said the little one to the bad ways Be gone be gone be gone Let the fight be for another day
2.
long hair and longer stride and your cut off painter pants chargin down the craggy mountains with our thrift store friends who you find so... so in love with the falling earth oh you wake in the middle of the falling night with summer playing coy in the attics of the city night we talked corso and the MC5 you could dance like we were all ALL right only the wild ones, give you something and never want it back oh the riot and the rush of the warm night air only the wild ones, are the ones you can never catch stars are up now no place to go... but everywhere one i met in the green mountain state i dropped out, and he moved away heard he got some land down south changed his name to a name the birds could pronounce only the wild ones, give you something and never want it back oh the riot and the rush of the warm night air only the wild ones, are the ones you can never catch stars are up now no place to go but everywhere... no place to go but everywhere and in the city the mayor said those who dance are all mislead so you packed your things and moved to the other coast said you gonna be like charlie rose only the wild ones, give you something and never want it back oh the riot and rush of the warm night air only the wild ones, are the ones you can never catch stars are up now no place to go... but everywhere only the wild ones, give you something and never want it back oh the riot and rush of the warm night air only the wild ones, are the ones you can never catch
3.
We try to understand The right to life like fire to the arson You got it right at last, but then the world Had a different plan and it took it all away Years and years you fought To try to light your darkness with a reason Maybe a woman someday, maybe even a child To hold and help and start over again And we run and we gun and we die young And we curse and we crush and we hide And we fight and we fuck and we make up And we love and we shove it aside Years and years you fought To try to light your darkness with a reason Maybe a woman someday, maybe even a child To hold and help and start over again And we run and we gun and we die young And we curse and we crush and we hide And we fight and we fuck and we make up And we love and we shove it aside Your eyes they shine, they shine from somewhere else I’m going in and out, I gotta lie down Never seen a light like that myself And we run and we gun and we die young And we curse and we crush and we hide And we fight and we fuck and we make up And we love and we shove it aside Your eyes they shine, they shine from somewhere else I’m going in and out, I got to lie down Never seen a light like that myself Your eyes they shine, they shine from somewhere else
4.
Aw it's dark outside I’ve been trying to get a ride (While) my body waits, my body waits America warm my face I've been trying to turn the page Once i was a little boy, staring at my shoes You came along and found me in the chicken coop But time takes over, i can't say when Time takes over, may we do it again Take me to the beachhead let’s go over All of those rocks at the end of the road Take me down to main street with no clothes on with our bare feet on the Painted yellow lines with our shadows far behind us Broke into that summer school and fooled around on the infirmary cot And we can be like all those fairies making their rain angels in the eddies And I have no expectation just an adolescent heart Take me to the beachhead let’s go over All of those rocks at the end of the road Help me down the seawall let's find Marci See if she got that Invitation to the movie, the one where the kids break out of juvie And then by their own admission they go and turn themselves all in Just as they get there to the station, The young one wheels and begs the pavement For brother speed to make arrangements with the spirits of the night Take me to the race track let's go bet on Aw the one that no one expects to win and Let's bet on the skinny horse he will surely try the hardest to come in first I bet you for the winner they put on some kind of fancy dinner Let’s be like those Philadelphia sisters That have prayed straight for a hundred years I have no expectation, just to be here in the present And behold you for a second before it all goes away
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6.
I walk down the road looking for my tribunal Like tom and huck stumbling down the aisle of their own funeral Please goddess of the road, get me on my way You see my love just left me so I’m on my own And my heart’s banged up looking for a foster home The highway moon is getting me dizzy I see a mirage of medusa, A top of an Appaloosa, what I wouldn’t do to be with you and your caboosa Whispering to Mr. beck now who’s the real loser Here come again the midnight Lorry, I think I might be moving along There’s a lot of places I got to get to, I know you’re out there but I never even met you Take me to the land of no worry and then I‘ll just keep playing this song Mr. Driver I hear the music playin’ and I see the lights, Will you throw me a ride A PYT ushers me back to the rear I haven’t been many places and i definitely haven’t been here To think i was just a lonely soul in the cold with my thumb out Now I’m rolling a smoke and being told to stick my tongue out We bounced and blared and so did the Lorry She teased my hair and held me close with a story Of rag tag visions as the moonlight poured in Second star to the right and straight on til’ morning Here come again the midnight Lorry, I think I might be moving along There’s a lot of places I got to get to, I know you’re out there but I never even met you Take me to the land of no worry and then I‘ll just keep playing this song Mr. Driver I hear the music playin’ and I see the lights, Will you throw me a ride Looking at her face was like looking at the sun She said you can’t ask of everybody what you don’t ask of one Either way, we got today and that’s all we may be allowed I know that if we hold it together, There’s real love we can bring about Here come again the midnight Lorry, I think I might be moving along There’s a lot of places I got to get to, I know you’re out there but I never even met you Take me to the land of no worry and then I’ll just keep playing this song Mr. Driver I hear the music playin and I see the lights, Will you throw me a ride
7.
Begin Again 02:53
Night after night with the sound and the light That comes from down below The street sweepers clean St Augustine And tired they head for home You can begin again Honey you can begin again Holding it all with her hat and her shawl She sways in the hall above Combing the room for a piece of the moon She braces against the wall Night after night with the sound and the light She sings and whispers please Day after day he lies in the way Of his life that was meant to be You can begin again Honey you can begin again You can begin again Honey you can begin again She breaks into his dreams And finds his colors on the floor Says don’t you disappear Stay awake my dear You can begin again Honey you can begin again You can begin again Honey you can begin again
8.
Rice Water 04:35
It’s time to wake up We’re already underway See the moon in the river, she chases the train so close To where we want to be Keep it tight Hold your head in There are eyes on the road that’ll do us in (and I can’t go back again) We don’t even need rice, like we don’t need water, We don’t even need eyes, we don’t even need God We don’t even need peace, like we don’t need laughter, We don’t even need guns, we don’t even need war Are you ok? That was a rough one you had the other day Do you care for a cup of tea It’ll get you high And where you want to be Keep it tight Hold your head in There are eyes on the road that’ll do us in Keep it tight Hold your head in There are eyes on the road that’ll do us in (and I can’t go back again) We don’t even need rice, like we don’t need water, We don’t even need eyes, we don’t even need God We don’t even need peace, like we don’t need laughter, We don’t even need guns but they love their war Pull me up hard like, like I was your last friend in the world Let me down easy, hurt my arm trying to save that girl You think that she’s alright, you think someone grabbed her knees You think she can make it, 2 days to go ‘til the river please Keep it tight Hold your head in There are eyes on the road that’ll do us in Keep it tight Hold your head in There are eyes on the road that’ll do us in (and I can’t go back again) We don’t even need rice, like we don’t need water, We don’t even need eyes, we don’t even need God We don’t even need peace, like we don’t need laughter, We don’t even need guns but they love their war We don’t even need flags, like we don’t need color, We don’t even need lies, but the lie’s alright We don’t even need roads, I’ll see you there after, Faster than the highest wall they’ll build
9.
WindyLike 04:59
You’ll never believe what I heard just now Carried by the rain It was the wind from where all the willows grow She was yelling your name Like a bird caught in a curtain This temporary entanglement may lead to an open sky Oh you’re looking for the perfect pardon, But there ain't gonna be any man anymore Cuz if it’s windy like in the morning and we are all just lost at sea We're gonna fight For in the end our only right Is to live and love and work and be Tell me once again Said the wind to the fleeing boy She told him a tale of a man gone wrong Said keep on running child Keep on running boy Like a bird caught in a curtain Like a bird caught in a curtain She was always more than certain That this temporary entanglement may lead to an open sky Oh you’re looking for the perfect pardon, but there ain't gonna be any man anymore Cuz if it’s windy like in the morning and we are all just lost at sea We're gonna fight For in the end our only right Is to live and love and work and be But if it’s all the same I’d Like to go on And leave the missing mountains to themselves All the cards that you opened up, will only tell you which way to not go Oh you’re looking for the perfect pardon, That man that told you that, the man he done died, and there ain’t gonna be any man anymore Cuz if it’s windy like in the morning and we are all just lost at sea We're gonna fight For in the end our only right Is to live and love and work and be.
10.
Ghost Town 03:05
Hard times, wages, gone with the ages See factory walls are crumbling, now all the coins missing from the fountain Old brick, old pine, hewed from trees from another time Used to hang out at the depot when they came in, Freight trains full of lumber from the mountain Now we’re living in a ghost town Now we’re living in a ghost town, see Now we’re living in a ghost town Now we’re living in a ghost town, see My dad, since 18, steel plant, near main street Savin’ money so he can ask the young waitress, the one with the red hair who's always anxious Clocked in, 4 kids, piled up on the horse hair mattress 30 years at the forgery working, got a notice that the factory was closing Now we’re living in a ghost town Now we’re living in a ghost town, see Now we’re living in a ghost town, see the money all but left now Now we’re living in a ghost town, see see see see… But i’m still here, most of us are There's no happiness here, except for the kind you can score Now folks my age dropping like flies Can’t stop once they get a hit of the good life Now we’re living in a ghost town Now we’re living in a ghost town, see Now we’re living in a ghost town, see the money all but left now Now we’re living in a ghost town, see Now we’re living in a ghost town, now we’re living in a ghost town, see Now we’re living in a ghost town, see Now we’re living in a ghost town, see the money all but left now Now we’re living in a ghost town, see see see see…
11.
I never been to London You never been to Spain I never been to war, you never been to prison But we never been the same After all is said and done There was so much more to relate Now the world will never know just what it lost that day Give me some hotdamn, give me some birdman, give me some Proud Mary The one with Claudia Lennear Give me that mix tape, give me those school days, Give me some hard cider the one we did not mean to make I was never beaten down like you were I got to grow up in your wake Momma always protected you, and dad was my ticket away And after all that was said and done There was so much more to relate Now the world will never know just what it lost that day Give me some hotdamn, give me some birdman, give me some Proud Mary The one with Claudia Lennear Give me that mix tape, give me those school days, Give me some hard cider the one we did not mean to make In prison there was more drugs than i ever seen And they let me stay out all night and trip the starlight til my soul was clean And when i got out, I began my journey to the east As they were filling you up with pills Give me some hotdamn, give me some birdman, give me some Proud Mary The one with Claudia Lennear Give me that mix tape, give me those school days, Give me some hard cider the one we did not mean to make Give me that long skate, give me that heartache Give me some Proud Mary the one with Claudia Lennear Give me that penalty kill, give me some big chill You be Dignan Redding, i’ll be Atticus Cobain

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America, Location 12 is the first new Dispatch album in five years.

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released June 2, 2017

Produced by John Dragonetti (The Submarines) with additional production by Mike Sawitzke (The Eels) and recorded at Panoramic House, an isolated studio set in the hills of Stinson Beach, CA,

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