Service and Repair Songtext

von Calexico

On the outskirts of expansion
Looking out from blue prints peak
The flow is flooding of urban settlers
Panning through rivers running dry

Numbers roll on in smiling a lottery grin
A sadness blurs the eye
It's just a matter of time before they're moving on (2x)
Doesn''t take much time for plans to go wrong
And chase another ghost of a chance

In the shadows of chain store ghost towns
Where no one walks the streets at night
The silent nation hooked o n medication
Stares into the a blue flickering light

The young drift off alone
And the old are whisked away
And prospects keep looking up
But the lines getting long on the lost highway (2x)
Doesn't take much time for plans to go astray
And chase another ghost of chance

They say deep down inside
Lie properties of a healing kind
If so it'd better come 'round soon
And do a little bit of service and repair (3x)
Doesn't take much time for plans to change
And offer up another chance
For a little bit more service and repair (2x)
Doesn't take much time for plans to change
And offer up another chance at sewing the dream
Better suited for both soul and soil.