August is hanging
This town out to dry
I bet we'll be the last ones
To leave town

Someones gotta reach
I guess that someone is me
I bet you'll the last star shot down

Lets be off tonight
While we're awake enough to drive

By this time tomorrow, we'll be alive

Yea, you're reading me lines from a song your wrote
It was something about a dragon of a girl you knew
That you lost on this road to hell

With me

Call it fate or bad luck
Nothing mystifies us
I bet you'll be the last star
Shot down

Summer's droppin' hints
While my hearts workin' edge
Walks the dusk of midday down to it's grave

Braver men than me
Have walked the lines asleep

Sing the praise of road to hell with me

Call it fate or bad luck
Nothing mystifies us
I bet you'll be the last star
Shot down


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Racing Cincinnati Lyrics as written by David V. Moore Adam J. Rubenstein

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    this song is amazing..reminds me of leaving home..and falling in love all at once..one life is ending forcing another to die along with it.
    killingjulieton June 05, 2002   Link
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    to me, it signify's the heartbreak, maybe that of David Moore, fresh out of high school, and maybe spending the summer with a close friend who has always been there, all their life until it comes time to move on, and start a new life. it quote's the month "august", generally the month when people pack up and move off to college. It means a lot to me because I lost my best friend that august, after the best summer of my life, just after graduating high school, then came time when everyone moved on, and this song always reminds me of that, and ill always miss her.
    Zy0non July 04, 2002   Link
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    used to be ahuge split lip fan... does anyone know why split lip re-recorded and renamed their band during fate's got a driver?
    Le_Nightingaleon August 29, 2002   Link
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    man this song is awesome! sounds really quite different from their style in their split lip days, all good though.
    themourningpromiseon December 13, 2004   Link
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    split lip just wanted a change of direction and a change of style/lyrical content mainly so they changed to Chamberlain because they wanted to seperate from their more hardcore roots.
    Wilf_xon September 25, 2006   Link

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