WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.020 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.020 --> 00:00:07.170 align:middle line:84% You might come here Sunday on a whim say your life broke down, 00:00:07.170 --> 00:00:10.830 align:middle line:84% the last good kiss you had was years ago. 00:00:10.830 --> 00:00:15.900 align:middle line:84% You walk these streets laid out by the insane past hotels that 00:00:15.900 --> 00:00:21.990 align:middle line:84% didn't last, bars that did the tortured dry of local drivers 00:00:21.990 --> 00:00:24.210 align:middle line:90% to accelerate their lives. 00:00:24.210 --> 00:00:26.670 align:middle line:90% Only churches are kept up. 00:00:26.670 --> 00:00:30.000 align:middle line:90% The jail turns 70 this year. 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:35.910 align:middle line:84% The only prisoner is always in not knowing what he's done. 00:00:35.910 --> 00:00:38.250 align:middle line:84% The principal supporting business 00:00:38.250 --> 00:00:42.750 align:middle line:84% now is rage, hatred of the various grays, 00:00:42.750 --> 00:00:46.050 align:middle line:84% the mountain sands, hatred of the mill, 00:00:46.050 --> 00:00:49.770 align:middle line:84% the silver bill repeal, the best like girls 00:00:49.770 --> 00:00:51.960 align:middle line:90% who leave each year for Butte. 00:00:51.960 --> 00:00:56.220 align:middle line:84% One good restaurant and bars can't wipe the boredom out. 00:00:56.220 --> 00:01:01.110 align:middle line:84% The 197 boom ain't going silver mines, 00:01:01.110 --> 00:01:03.960 align:middle line:90% a dance floor built on springs. 00:01:03.960 --> 00:01:07.320 align:middle line:84% All memory resolves itself and gaze. 00:01:07.320 --> 00:01:13.620 align:middle line:84% In panoramic green, you know the cattle eat or two stacks high 00:01:13.620 --> 00:01:19.200 align:middle line:84% above the town, two dead kilns the huge mill in collapse 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:24.660 align:middle line:84% for 50 years that won't fall finally down. 00:01:24.660 --> 00:01:28.050 align:middle line:84% Isn't this your life that ancient kiss 00:01:28.050 --> 00:01:30.630 align:middle line:90% still burning out your eyes? 00:01:30.630 --> 00:01:33.660 align:middle line:84% Isn't this defeat so accurate the church 00:01:33.660 --> 00:01:37.860 align:middle line:84% bells simply seems a pure announcement ring 00:01:37.860 --> 00:01:39.480 align:middle line:90% and no one comes? 00:01:39.480 --> 00:01:42.000 align:middle line:90% Don't empty houses ring? 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:45.810 align:middle line:84% Our magnesium and scorn sufficient to support 00:01:45.810 --> 00:01:51.330 align:middle line:84% a town, not just Philipsburg, but towns of towering blondes, 00:01:51.330 --> 00:01:54.540 align:middle line:84% good jazz and booze the world will never 00:01:54.540 --> 00:02:01.140 align:middle line:84% let you have until the town you came from dies inside. 00:02:01.140 --> 00:02:05.490 align:middle line:84% Say no to yourself, the old man 20 00:02:05.490 --> 00:02:08.850 align:middle line:84% when the jail was built still laughs 00:02:08.850 --> 00:02:10.830 align:middle line:90% although his lips collapse. 00:02:10.830 --> 00:02:16.230 align:middle line:84% Someday soon he says, I'll go to sleep and not wake up. 00:02:16.230 --> 00:02:20.130 align:middle line:84% You tell him no, you're talking to yourself. 00:02:20.130 --> 00:02:23.370 align:middle line:84% The car that brought you here still runs. 00:02:23.370 --> 00:02:27.870 align:middle line:84% The money you buy lunch with no matter where its mind is 00:02:27.870 --> 00:02:31.350 align:middle line:84% silver, and the girl who serves you food 00:02:31.350 --> 00:02:36.710 align:middle line:84% is slender and her red hair lights the wall. 00:02:36.710 --> 00:02:44.000 align:middle line:90%