Lights Down, Ember On
Kill the neon, leave the one lamp
The one that makes the whiskey look like gold
I didn't come here to be seen tonight
I came here to get old
Leaf in the cutter, click like a small judgment
Toast the foot till it takes the fire
First draw bitter, second draw kinder
Third draw telling me the truth I hired
Lights down, ember on
That's the hour I understand
Whiskey in the low light, smoke like a curtain
I ain't lost. I'm just off the map of man
There's a couple laughing two tables over
They got a future. I got a chair
I raise the glass like a private manners
They don't see me. I don't care
When the lamp dies I'll still have the coal
When the coal dies I'll still have the pour
When the pour dies I'll walk to the lot
And be a man again, just less sure
Lights down, ember on
That's the hour I understand
Whiskey in the low light, smoke like a curtain
I ain't lost. I'm just off the map of man
Short Glass Country, track by track
- 1Four Fingers of Rye
- 2Last Ember in the Tray
- 3Cedar Box
- 4Ash on a White Shirt
- 5Proof and Smoke
- 6Chair by the Dark Window
- 7Slow Pour, Slow Draw
- 8Whiskey Rings on the Good Book
- 9One More Draw
- 10Barroom Benediction
- 11Cornmash and Cedar
- 12The Long Ash
- 13Burnt End of a Prayer
- 14Lights Down, Ember On
- 15Leave the Bottle, Leave the Leaf