Abilene-Dave Alvin

[ti:Abilene] [ar:Dave Alvin] [al:Live From Austin Tx] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Abilene - Dave Alvin [00:16.99]There's a greyhound bus [00:18.74] [00:20.19]Leavin' the great Northwest [00:22.35] [00:24.18]Takin' her tonight [00:25.93] [00:26.90]Back down south to Texas [00:28.85] [00:32.40]She's been dancing' on tables [00:34.37] [00:35.72]To pay rent and be able [00:37.84] [00:38.75]To just get by and maybe stay clean [00:42.69] [00:44.37]Abilene Abilene [00:47.01] [00:51.07]Abilene Abilene [00:53.84] [00:57.91]Well her daddy'd get drunk [00:59.68] [01:01.22]Then he'd hit her hard [01:02.56] [01:04.64]And her mama'd lie in bed [01:06.41] [01:07.06]High on pills and talkin' to God [01:09.34] [01:12.75]But like her beautiful tattoos [01:16.27]These old memories she can't lose [01:18.94] [01:19.53]Since she ran away at fifteen [01:23.61] [01:24.89]Abilene Abilene [01:27.67] [01:29.75]There's a town ahead that you've never seen [01:34.22] [01:36.42]Maybe it's better if you get off there and try to [01:42.22] [01:43.22]Forget everything [01:46.91]Abilene [01:47.96] [01:54.06]Starin' out the window [01:55.61] [01:57.07]At the long cold night [01:58.69] [02:00.82]Ahead on the horizon [02:02.54] [02:03.35]Is another string of bright lights [02:06.43] [02:08.50]She's dreamin' of a man she's goin' to meet [02:11.34] [02:12.23]In a bar on an Austin street [02:15.42]Maybe this one won't be so mean [02:19.81] [02:20.57]Abilene Abilene [02:23.60] [02:25.51]There's a town ahead that you've never seen [02:30.16] [02:32.27]Maybe it's better if you get off there and try to [02:37.90] [02:38.89]Forget everything [02:41.95] [02:42.51]Abilene [02:43.82] [03:16.31]In a Texas bar there's a man sittin' alone [03:21.07] [03:23.36]Thinkin' of a girl he swore he'd wait there for [03:28.27] [03:31.09]But he's drinkin' beers and he's feelin' old [03:34.43]Rememberin' every lie he's told [03:38.04]Til he changes his mind and he leaves [03:42.27] [03:43.15]Abilene Abilene [03:45.85] [03:47.71]There's a town ahead that you've never seen [03:52.59] [03:54.56]Maybe it's better if you get off there and try to [04:00.50] [04:01.34]Forget everything [04:04.80]Abilene Abilene [04:07.85] [04:10.98]Oh Abilene Abilene