Name: August
Duration: P00H03M49S
Description: I leave the parking lot blasting Amarillo By Mornin’ and nearly rear-end a truck with Montana plates from sheer excitement. I break a hundred dollar bill on 40 bucks of gasoline and put the notebook on the dash again, barely-fictional dialogue spinning like yarn wool in my caffeinated mind.

August

from Salvation Rose by Forrest VanTuyl

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I leave the parking lot blasting Amarillo By Mornin’ and nearly rear-end a truck with Montana plates from sheer excitement. I break a hundred dollar bill on 40 bucks of gasoline and put the notebook on the dash again, barely-fictional dialogue spinning like yarn wool in my caffeinated mind.

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Winter came hard, she came harder
pulled my heart out on a thread
sewed my scars and took it farther,
she stitched her picture all across my head
We slept clean on Charlotte Street, settled in my broken bed
She said “I may not be back when August ends...”

Summer showed
I kept callous
she said “Alex, breathe.”
Burnin’ slow
all that we can salvage
I said “fold the borders and throw me in between!”
I’s weak-knee’d on Charlotte Street, I was kneelin at my lonely bed
sayin’ “I may not be back when August ends.”

Pulled my boots
‘n I soaked my bourbon
Oh, I smoked my third one of the night
heard from you,
it was postmarked Austin
You don’t know what you’re costin’ my mind
Harmonize my memory, I hear her in every breath, sayin'
"I may not be back when August ends"

Sky split slow
an it stole my thunder/
This weather I’m under ain’t gettin’ warm
I said "No,
I wasn’t born to wonder, an'
I’ve wasted every lover since I was born."
Sky's bleedin' leaves over Charlotte Street,
baby I'm burnin' this empty bed,
No I'm not goin' back, and I'll let August end.

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from Salvation Rose, released September 2, 2013
Forrest & Fawn - Vocals
Forrest - Guitars & Tambourine
Fawn - Piano & Tambourine
Patrick - Pedal Steel
Heather Thomas - Drums
Heather Hagen - Fiddle
Jonny - Upright Bass
El Barto - Trumpet & Kick & Claps
Jesse from The Holiday Friends - "Texas" Accordion Sample

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Forrest VanTuyl Goldendale, Washington

Forrest VanTuyl is a Western songwriter, poet, and working cowboy based in the Inland Northwest. His work has been featured in the New York Times, at The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, and he has written music for the US Forest Service.

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