Pink Granite Spine Songtext
von The Westerns

Tonight I′ll stay in with my addiction
Staring at these walls
I'm living off water and bread

Alone with my sheets
And my collection of glossy memories
Of how the West was won one time
And how this legacy is mine

When men and shovels find me here
Frozen by the years
And the Rio Grande has turned to sand
The Brazos gone, Austin disappeared
In my dust, they′ll find the sign
The evidence will point to the crime
And they'll trace my radioactivity
And label me with iodine and you will find
Old bones
Pink granite spine


The half-life of home is never ending
Bridges never burned
An open door's a thing unsaid
An afternoon with my grandad and a stick of ice cream
Bought at Dairy Queen
He pointed out beyond the cactus trees
As far as a six year old could see
One state and two countries
New Mexico and Mexico

And when men and shovels find me here
Frozen by the years
And the Rio Grande has turned to sand
The Brazos gone, Austin disappeared
In my dust, they′ll find the sign
The evidence will point to the crime
And they′ll trace my radioactivity
And label me with iodine and you will find
Old bones
Pink granite spine

Tonight I'll stay in
With my collection of glossy memories
Of how the West was won one time