Bellwether "Bellwether" Eric Luoma - guitars vocals harmonica banjo Jimmy Peterson - guitrs vocals lapsteel Phil Tippin - bass guitar and vocals John Christ - drums and tamborine Guests include: Eric Christopher - violin and mandolin Jimmy Johnson - pedal steel guitar Mickey Wirtz - drums Ed Ackerson - keys Joe Luoma - drums 8th Street What were you doing there? What were you doing down on 8th street? Down where the hearts will bleed, just for the sake of bleeding. Oh no, I musn't breathe a word. I was once as you are now with straight approach and crooked arrows. chorus No I cannot see your face, down in those dark cafes, with all of those vacant people Oh no, I shouldn't shun it all. It sn't mine to harbor you. No handout's worth the taking. I know the hooks behind the words. I've seen them offered up and burned. No telling now who's needed. chorus What were you doing there? What were you doing down on 8th street? Down where the hearts will bleed, just for the sake of bleeding. chorus Maybe time han told us more than we need to know. Seconhand Love She got a secondhand love. You get it on the run. Well she keeps you guessing when she leaves you all alone. You can bide your time every time you go. I ain't that hard to find. Everybody knows. chorus I'm walking down the streets again. Little closer to the one you're on. If it's looking like a dead-end run. Just means that I'm missing you. Leaning on a lonesome heart, maybe just as well. I f you're looking for the words to fall, find them where they fell. Darling are you out there somewhere making up your mind? There's something you borrowed, something you left behind. South Dakota What if there's time to kill? What if there's a blinding will to go down? What if there'e a restlessness that no one even knows? There's a comforting thought to hang around. While everyone else is beating their days into the groand. chorus Why don't we go pack it up and drive us blind, where the sun in South Dakota never seems to end never meet again. If you move your place to fall, isn't that the rush of it all? Our skyline thinks it's bigger than it is. Your dreams are calling out, but your heart's patina. No blue is darker than the shade you're in. chorus Walk It Off I've been walking days it seems, up and down both sides of my dream. Kicking the soles down to pellum blue. Dragging the rest out over you. I don't know which to mind, I go down to the empty mine. Well I know you been here before, 'cause there's rust on the kitchen floor. Over you, over you. I could not do the talk, or tell you when to stop. chorus Don't you mind a thing, don't you even blink. I'll go walk it off. Elevator one-stop therapy over the bridge and the river bank. This is a restless sanctity. I've got you and only you to thank. Yeah you, yeah you. I could not do the talk, or tell you when to stop. chorus Well I don't mind all the spare time, but it just seems like ouch a bore. Where's your sparkle? Where is your shine? 'Cause it's not mine anymore. Well I could not do the talk, or tell you when to stop. chorus Takes a Toll The well runs empty. That's a sound I've heard before, once or twice. Come lately, you come knocking on my back door, late last night. You ain't living on less than you need. Small change indeed. Long enough to see something you think you know, It takes a toll. So you pass the days. Ain't it strange when you settle down? And the wasted time. All the restless ways of a northern town come along - in the wintertime. You ain't living on less than you need. Small change indeed. Long enough to see something you think you know. It takes a toll. It takes a toll. It takes a toll. Too Easy Well it seems you've got it all worked out Been drinking life from a silver cup. Making the scene when you rest awhile. When you set it down it goes out of style. chorus Doesn't it seem a little bit too easy? Doesn't it seem a little bit too fast? Doesn't it seem a little bit too easy? And don't you want to go and make it last? Well I know you think you've found a saving grace. That's so charmed but saving face. ls it answers to your dreams? Or is it just about settling? chorus Groundspeed Down main street we're dragging our feet. We're trying to keep it alive. Light traces, the look on your face when the man says it isn't your time. Groundspeed again. Hearts beat again. No one can travel that fast. Grouddspeed again. Hearts beat again. Na one can travel that fast. No one can travel that fast. Just Like That Step right up to the step down and side tracked. Two-step with no more than one. Can you tell I'm trying to tell you something, if you ever slow down from the ran. And don't you ever listen to the words that they say. And don't you ever listen. chorus Just like that. Just like that it all starts up again. Just like that. Just like that it will end. Well you might as well spend your money on something. Better that comes down the line. Well you might as well spend your money on something, cause just like that it's gone. Step right down. There ain't no use in asking why or what's been given in. Can you tell I'm trying to tell you something, if you ever slow down from the run. And don't you ever listen to a word that they say. And don't you ever listen. chorus Shine a Light All the streets are empty, and the days just crawl. Feel a little stranger - daylight losing to the fall. Shaking at the window with a rattle so fine. Maybe late September, coming down the line. chorus Shine a little light on love. Shine a little light on love. Shine a little light on love. Seen it in the headlines like I seen it on your face. You can throw out all the reasons. But you never walk away. If the hour's too idle, all the changes coming slow. You can leave it on your doorstep 'til it doesn't even show. chorus Overtime Now it's winter in our town avanues run single-sided. Who have you gone to let down? All the lies, all the promises. chorus Half the while, half the time, well you've got my heart working overtime. But I don't mind. No one loses any sleep. Or if they do, they're not saying a thing. Every day is more the same. lt's not a life - it's just a living. chorus This overtime has gone too far - no one knows just where you are - where you are. Are you running out of friends? What a state you're in. 'Cause you can't leave your heart to chances or anything that up and vanishes. chorus All On Red When the sidewalk was longer than most, and the floor moved by itself, I could not keep very close, like I did so many times. chorus Thank you dear Magdalene. Well you really shed some light. Tell me about your seven sins and that we'll be all right. Well I should have put it all on black. That's what my friends said. Can I have my true love back? 'Cause I put it all en red. 'Cause I put it all on red. Down another vestibule, there hung the twenty nine. I could not see the best of you. So I fell behind. chorus On red, an red. On red, on red. The Call I'm the one who brought us here, after all this time. Just to see what we could see, just to say we tried. By the time I realized what might take the fall, they came today lv claim their prize, and I'm the one who made the call. Across the empty table sat, the keepers of my work. And I just could not take a breath, or even say a word. By the time I realized what might take the fall, they came today to claim their prize, and I'm the one who made the call. All songs by bellwether via northerly music (ASCAP) Copyright 2000 rustbelt records