Down To The Wire Lyrics - American Central Dust - Son Volt

Wake up to the Biddle Street blues 

Can't shake the news 

All the way to the big dome 

They're trying 

The intrigues of the new royalty 

And the believers 

In the afterlife 

Share the same gamblers pages 

Cobblestone streets saw 3 sovereign flags 

As they raised their glasses to conquest and nation 

Still pawns playing out the legacy 

Of long dead industry titans and haters of men 

Feeling down to the wire 

Feeling down to the wire 

Plastic grocery bags fly from trees 

Proud symbols of a cavalier progress 

Memories and landscapes in triage 

Disappearing averages, permanent changes 

No jury will have a final say 

Everyone knows the jury is guilty 

Faced with no plan at all 

Just to trick a smile out of the moment 

Feeling down to the wire 

Feeling down to the wire 

Feeling down to the wire 

Feeling down to the wire