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Plain Old, Plano Blues (for paul)

from Thank You And Good Night (2013) by The Young Republic

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Baby lives in the middle of Texas
Don't do nothin that could ever offend us
Baby drives a nice, black Lexus new
Around a town cut up and down by highways
Wouldn't ever turn a good head sideways
Baby's got them plain old, Plano blues

Come on boys, let's me Apache Mozarts
Screamin heads climbing through the Ozarks
Red eyes, making mad love to the moon
The sun illuminates the shrines of convenience
The Gods of taste have gone to sleep or grown lenient
I'm awake with these plain old, Plano blues

I might be a singer
Well, then give us a song
I only got one tune to suit this mood
Babe, I'm singing "Plain Old, Plano Blues"

Camping out in a shopping mall parking lot
Warmer weather than I ever would have thought
Couldn't sleep, climbed a tree, cut my eyes on the view
Nothin worth a nickel more than a milk shake
Tracks of land could benefit from an earthquake
I see why Baby's got them plain old, Plano blues

I ain't a local, but I got a hunch
That livin here's like eatin cold styrofoam lunch
With a nice sprawlin side of no-ambition-stew
Starin at suburban desert mansions
Passin by the trash dump horse pen
Give a fella these plain old, Plano blues

I might be a singer
Well, then give us a song
I only got one tune to suit this mood
Babe, I'm singing "Plain Old, Plano Blues"

Five to a room in a no-star hotel
I'm bleeding out at the slow bar ink well
The road to hell is tolled by ladies wearing high heeled shoes
See Baby dancin in a thrift store green gown
Two different colored eyes, the left one is speckled brown
The right one is just plain old, Plano blue

Where there was once luck, passion and history
There is plastic soul and the mystery
Of why good folks let a nice place fall to ruin
This ain't one isolated sell-out ghost town
It's here and there and everywhere you look around
Every city's got them plain old, Plano Blues

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from Thank You And Good Night (2013), released October 20, 2013

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