Ashland [live] (4:37)

APPEARS ON: Live at Gabe's (2010)

City litter swirls making the skin of the invisible man
Catching the glow off the ionosphere
Still fighting the cold war

What else is a well-trained soldier to do
Buried in the deep suburban towns?
Come thirty he’s finally learning to read on the surface
Instead of sweeping for mines

If I hit the lights just right
Ashland will be green all night
Come circuit splendor
Love comes hidden in friction
Love comes hidden in friction

She found him dead in the brush in a puddle of wax
Broken rib, swimmer’s ear, and a hell of a tan
She came on him with gifts in tow of
Ice, isopropyl, and aloe

Cradles him after the fall
With a grace she believes she’s got only in dream
Stitches his wings by degrees
Wipes the porridge away from her mouth with her sleeve
Leans with purpose
Gives him her lips divine

And if you hit the lights just right
Ashland will be green all night
And all the past is somehow suddenly justified
If somehow it’s funneled up to this
If somehow it’s funneled up
Ashland will be green all night

Love comes hidden in friction
Love comes hidden in friction

Stitches his wings by degrees…

Tim Koelling [guitar]
Michael Koelling [bass]
Nick Kokonas [drums]

Mixed by Mickey Barendt

Recorded at Gabe’s in Highwood, IL on Nov 19, 2010

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Song Notes

The original studio version of Ashland appears on the 2001 album Roadstar.

Collaborators

Tim Koelling, Michael Koelling, Nick Kokonas, Mickey Barendt

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