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Only the Wild Ones

"Painted Yellow Lines" is a new song from the Boston, Massachusetts band Dispatch. It appears on their new full length album America, Location 12 which is available now on iTunes, Spotify and all other digital music platforms.

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LYRICS:

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

Catch Dispatch on tour this summer with Guster: www.dispatchmusic.com/tour

June 15 - Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
June 16 - Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre 
June 17 - Telluride, CO @ Telluride Bluegrass Festival
June 18 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Red Butte Garden
June 20 - Austin, TX @ Stubb's
June 22 - Birmingham, AL @ Iron City
June 23 - Charlotte, NC @ CMCU Amphitheatre
June 24 - Atlanta, GA @ Chastain Park Amphitheatre 
June 26 - Louisville, KY @ Iroquois Amphitheater
June 27 - Columbus, OH @ Express Live
June 28 - Indianapolis, IN @ White River State Park
June 30 - Milwaukee, WI @ Summerfest
July 1 - Chicago, IL @ Huntington Bank Pavilion
July 2 - Rochester Hills, MI @ Meadow Brook
July 3 - Cedar Rapids, IA @ McGrath Amphitheatre
July 6 - New York, NY @ Forest Hills Stadium
July 7 - Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion
July 8 - Marshfield, MA @ Levitate Festival
July 9 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Skyline Stage @ Mann Center
September 12 - London, UK @ Electric Ballroom
September 14 - Amsterdam, NL @ Melkweg
September 15 - Munich, DE @ Backstage Halle
September 16 - Hannover, DE @ Faust - Presale
September 17 - Cologne, DE @ Gloria - Presale
September 19 - Berlin, DE @ Columbia Theater
September 21 - Frankfurt, DE @ Batschkapp
September 22 - Linz, AT @ Posthof 
September 23 - Vienna, AT @ Arena Big Hall
September 24 - Zurich, CH @ Dynamo

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Painted Yellow Lines

Furr

Dispatch - Bang Bang

Tomorrow

Tearing at the Seams

You Worry Me

This version of "Time Served" is off of Dispatch's new live album, Live 18, out now on the band's own Bomber Records. It was recorded the summer of 2018 during the band's tour across the United States that year.

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Dispatch is playing 3 headlining dates across the US this summer, as well as a few festival stops. Find a date near you: www.dispatchmusic.com/tour

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CREDITS:
Filmed and Edited by Mike Smith
Audio Mixed by Brett Eliason
Audio Mastered by Dave Cooley

LYRICS:
Hold up the firing line hold up the fire
Walk away counting backwards from nine
Hold up the firing line hold steady on the trigger's time
Walk away counting backwards from nine
Holding his breath so to start his own dying
Time time served to the ones that left you here
No people here only names soon to be put to numbers so its one in the same
It's anyone's game as long as the fire flickers
The throat stickers they place their bet the trouble is that no one's added it up quite yet
Cause when they do when they do when they do when they do
It'll be a riot and the wire is down
Hold up for the fury to sound hold up your head from the ground or they'll keep you on it
Your time time served to the ones who left you here
From tower to wall to guard to guard to wall
Ever ready for the fire to fall
The confines haven't seen the sun since the lifers let go of their irrelevant innocence
But long before a single round was shot word spread from block to block to cell block
They're going to take him and make an example of him for the escapees to fear
The incoming of the incoming of the gun oncoming another year
You either die on the inside or trying to get out the choice is yours the choice is here
Time time served to the ones who left you here
Time time served to the ones who left you here

Time Served (Live)

This version of "So Good" is off of Dispatch's new live album, Live 18, out now on the band's own Bomber Records. It was recorded the summer of 2018 during the band's tour across the United States that year.

Dispatch is playing 3 headlining dates across the US this summer, as well as a few festival stops. Find a date near you: www.dispatchmusic.com/tour

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CREDITS:
Filmed and Edited by Mike Smith
Audio Mixed by Brett Eliason
Audio Mastered by Dave Cooley

LYRICS:
Staring at the pen and ink drawings 
There’s a crow who’s starting to bleed
I go to the bookshelf, myself and a picture of a girl in a bikini
Jumping off a dock falls out of page 43
I think it’s my brother’s old girlfriend who’s married to a woman now

My father walks like he’s run out of oil
He lurches and jerks his way around the farm
My mother walks towards him the same way she led her last horse away from the barn
We’d just built a fire to soften up the ground
You could see her saying through her tears it's okay boy, come follow me one last time

Maybe, don’t know, can’t tell, if it’s so good
So good, so good, to be living right now

My kids are still young, barely weigh anything
I can carry them easy on each arm,
But I told them I wouldn’t be able to do that forever
And sometimes when I’m carrying them both
The older one says, hey look dad, you can still carry me

Maybe, don’t know, can’t tell
Yeah but it’s so good, so good to be living right now

So good, so good, it’s so good to be living right now

Maybe, don’t know, can’t tell
Yeah but it’s so good, so good to be living right now
Yeah but it's so good, so good, it’s so good to be living right now

So Good (Live)

This version of "Open Up" is off of Dispatch's new live album, Live 18, out now on the band's own Bomber Records. It was recorded the summer of 2018 during the band's tour across the United States that year.

Order Live 18 on CD, the first 500 copies are signed: http://www.dispatchmerch.com

Dispatch is playing 3 headlining dates across the US this summer, as well as a few festival stops. Find a date near you: www.dispatchmusic.com/tour

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CREDITS:
Filmed and Edited by Mike Smith
Audio Mixed by Brett Eliason
Audio Mastered by Dave Cooley

LYRICS:
They were looking for me when I came to
They were looking for me when I came back
Said hey you you're looking very suspicious
I said relax man get off my back
I I I ain't opposed to seeking justice
But you're going about it all wrong
The man you're looking for does not exist
He's just a figment of the higher man's tongue
And they say open up we're coming inside
You can't run so you may as well hide
We got the place covered from head to toe head to toe
Open up we're coming inside
What's it feel like to know you're going to die
On the other side of the row
So they took me down to the gallows and this boy he said to me
Why do you smile when the rope's around your neck
I said I tell you boy when I get back
I I I ain't opposed to seeking justice
But you're going about it all wrong
The man you're looking for does not exist
He's just a figment of the higher man's tongue
He’s just a victim of the higher man’s tongue
And they say open up we're coming inside
You can't run so you may as well hide
We got the place covered from head to toe head to toe
Open up we're coming inside
What's it feel like to know you're going to die
On the other side of the row
Hands above your head que le via bien
Step out of line and we'll fill you with lead
How are we to know that you are not a liar
Hey don't you see we have a job to do and our job is the law job is the law
You fit the description of a criminal crosser hey
We believe that he is you and that is your flaw
That is your flaw
And they say open up we're coming inside
You can't run so you may as well hide
We got the place covered from head to toe head to toe
Open up we're coming inside
What's it feel like to know you're going to die
On the other side of the row

Open Up (Live)

This version of "Beto" is off of Dispatch's new live album, Live 18, out now on the band's own Bomber Records. It was recorded the summer of 2018 during the band's tour across the United States that year.

Order Live 18 on CD, the first 500 copies are signed: http://www.dispatchmerch.com

Dispatch is playing 3 headlining dates across the US this summer, as well as a few festival stops. Find a date near you: www.dispatchmusic.com/tour

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CREDITS:
Filmed and Edited by Mike Smith
Audio Mixed by Brett Eliason
Audio Mastered by Dave Cooley

LYRICS:
Beto where will you go?
Beto what will you do?
Beto ah don't you know yet,
Your time is through?

Peddling with all your guns
And all along the way
Oh what the people say
"Beto the Pure he's near
Lock your doors get out of here!"
Get out...

Dona Maria she said to me
It's so much more than rice and beans
Oh that I'm cooking for you
It's how i love them true...
Bring me your brothers
Bring me your mothers
Oh the little and the broken too
I will not lead them no i just feed them
Let me be me and you be you...

I see all your lines
I see all your light

Up on the hilltop flashing lights
Up on the hilltop the barrels never lie
Up on the hill top i heard it said
In a gunshot word that Beto the Pure was dead
Still i swear i see him walking and talking there
I see him walking and talking there

I feel all your lines
I see all your light

Beto where did you go?
Beto what will you do?
Beto ah don't you know yet
This time your eyes are new
Peddling with all your sons
And all along the way
All of the people wave
"Beto the Pure he's near,
Unlock your doors and have no fear!"

Have no fear.
Beto la Pura.

Beto (Live)

This version of "Curse + Crush" is off of Dispatch's new live album, Live 18, out now on the band's own Bomber Records. It was recorded the summer of 2018 during the band's tour across the United States that year.

Order Live 18 on CD, the first 500 copies are signed: http://www.dispatchmerch.com

Dispatch is playing 3 headlining dates across the US this summer, as well as a few festival stops. Find a date near you: www.dispatchmusic.com/tour

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CREDITS:
Filmed and Edited by Mike Smith
Audio Mixed by Brett Eliason
Audio Mastered by Dave Cooley

LYRICS:
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

Curse + Crush (Live)

This version of ""The General" is off of Dispatch's new live album, Live 18, out now on the band's own Bomber Records. It was recorded the summer of 2018 during the band's tour across the United States that year.

Order Live 18 on CD, the first 500 copies are signed: http://www.dispatchmerch.com

Dispatch is playing 3 headlining dates across the US this summer, as well as a few festival stops. Find a date near you: www.dispatchmusic.com/tour

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CREDITS:
Filmed and Edited by Mike Smith
Audio Mixed by Brett Eliason
Audio Mastered by Dave Cooley

LYRICS:
There was a decorated general with a heart of gold
That likened him to all the stories he told
Of past battles won and lost and legends of old
A seasoned veteran in his own time
On the battlefield he gained respectful fame
With many metals of bravery and stripes to his name
He grew a beard as soon as he could to cover the scars on his face
And always urged his men on
But on the eve of a great battle with the infantry in dream
The old general tossed in his sleep and wrestled with its meaning
He awoke from the night just to tell what he had seen
And walked slowly out of his tent
All the men held tall with their chests in the air
With courage in their blood and a fire in their stare
It was a grey morning and they all wondered how they would fare
Til the old general told them to go home
I have seen the others and I have discovered that this fight is not worth fighting
I have seen their mothers and I will no other to follow me where I'm going
Take a shower shine your shoes you got no time to lose
You are young men you must be living
Go now you are forgiven
But the men stood fast with their guns on their shoulders
Not knowing what to do with the contradicting orders
The general said he would do his own duty bout would not extend it not further
The men could go as they pleased
Not a man moved their eyes glazed straight ahead
Til one by one they stepped back and not a word was said
And the old general was left with his own words echoing in his head
He then prepared to fight
I have seen the others and I have discovered that this fight is not worth fighting
I have seen their mothers and I will no other to follow me where I'm going
Take a shower shine your shoes you got no time to lose
You are young men you must be living
Go now you are forgiven
Ya got to be got to got be to got to be hey

The General (Live)

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