Down To The Wire - 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