Train Wreck

from Abulum by Glen Phillips

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lyrics

She looked just like a train wreck
That could have been avoided
In a third-world country
By a long stretch of farmland
Where the water had run high
And run the topsoil down the river
So that next year there would be no crops

She was as desperate as a salesman
At a company that’s folding
But they haven’t told the staff yet
That they’re bankrupt and backordered
And they’re funneling the pensions to the CEO’s back pocket
So in one year they’ll have nothing

I miss you girl
I hope you’re fine
Good luck, love
Or goodbye

She’s the girl from central casting
Always played the sweet young orphan
Or the hooker with the heart of gold
But she got her SAG card pulled
And turns tricks down on Cahuenga
And she tells herself it’s research
For her next and greatest role

I miss you girl
I hope you’re fine
Good luck, love
Or goodbye

She calls you up just to hear you say she’s fine
Then she’s gone away
And you know there’s only one more time
You’ll hear of her again

It’s life informing art informing life again
Like every stupid kid
Who thinks that they’re the first in pain
The first to rip themselves apart
The first to try and live without a heart

I miss you girl
I hope you’re fine
Good luck, love
Or goodbye

I want to see your face
Even hear your lies
Good luck girl
Or goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye

credits

from Abulum, released January 1, 2002
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Credits:

produced by ethan and glen
ethan: lap steel, electric guitar, percussion, doublespeed guitar
richard: s6, electric piano
sandy: drums
jen: bass
glen: electric and acoustic guitars

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Apr 18

Seascape

Miramar Beach, FL
Apr 21

SOhO Restaurant & Music Club

Santa Barbara, CA
May 2

Alberta Rose Theatre

Portland, OR
May 3

The Triple Door

Seattle, WA
May 4

The Saphire Room At The Riverside Hotel

Boise, ID
May 18

Lost Chord Guitars

Solvang, CA
Jul 19

HopMonk Tavern - Novato

Novato, CA
Jul 20

HopMonk Tavern - Novato

Novato, CA

discography

There Is So Much Here

Nov 2022
Swallowed by the New (Deluxe Edition)

May 2018
Options - B-sides & Demos

Nov 2014
Coyote Sessions

Sep 2012
All I Want (Garrison Starr)

Dec 2011
Secrets of the New Explorers

Mar 2008
Unlucky Seven

Mar 2006
Mr. Lemons

May 2006
Live at Largo

May 2003
Abulum

Jan 2002
Glen Phillips Sampler

Oct 2009
Tornillo

Dec 2010
Shackleton Remix by GP

Nov 2010
Little Bunny Foo Foo

Oct 2008
The Next Day

Dec 2011

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