Dispatch - Painted Yellow Lines Lyrics

One of the best bands on the planet.

I've listened to dispatch since I was thirteen, so ten years and counting. it makes me nostalgic in all the possible ways. my adolescent heart is full of your songs. thank you <3

Dispatch come to Nelson's ledges please!!!!

Wilmington, NC,  Greenfield Lake Amp.

I heard this song on CBC radio and became obsessed about the the band. When you find something this great, you buy in totally.

Do you know how much I love this

I've had this video on loop for a few hours, and I noticed a bit of magic at 4:55
I'm kind of curious how many other people have spotted it

heard this on the radio <3

Shweeeet Shong

Totally, every song on this album is prime guys

God, this song just fills me with such ineffable, painful/sweet nostalgia. Beautiful. This is the stuff of life.

Love it, it's finally being played by Bay Area radio stations. It is really cheering me up.

Hipsters

Thank you for making this world a better place to live.

I love this song

Thanks for the great new music. It touches us, well done.

Reminds me of the group "Iron and Wine", so great.

This song just touch's my soul

We know America, Location 12 comes out next week but we couldn't help ourselves. We had to release one more song. Our touring brother Matt Embree said that Painted Yellow Lines, "feels like driving on the freeway between Biloxi and New Orleans at 3AM in the morning."
The song was written in a brick row house in Richmond, Virginia. It's about hitchhiking and jumping freight trains across America, and thinking of the past while searching for a second chance.
In the beginning, we are hitchhiking and the sun is going down - and hope with it. Thumbing it (rubber tramping it) is hard enough in the daylight, let alone the night.
The song then hurtles back to memories of Chad's childhood. He ran away from home when he was nine and made it as far as the chicken coop. His family found him asleep in the shavings. Then the song switches to summer time as a teenager, running barefoot along the yellow lines in the middle of the road at night, followed by later memories of cops, girls and horses.
Recording this song was a unique experience. The production is so seemingly simple, but was quite hard to get right. There were so many layers of color and texture working together to serve the lyrics. The drums were particularly hard to track because we didn't use any fills or hard hitting sections. The restraint in recording all of the parts and just subtly changing up the bass drum pattern became an obsession of ours.

DISPATCH keep on digging deep 16 year fan love everything...people need people! Love you Pete come back see you in St. Petersburg Florida straight from central Wisconsin! ✌🏼

DISPATCH so awesome. Thank you for talking about it this way, it makes the song so damn personal and filled with meaning. *went as far as the chicken coop.

DISPATCH ~ I heard this song playing in the background maybe a dozen times without much reaction...then all of a sudden it grabbed me in a very personal place and I've been obsessed ever since.

That's the way it happens with the very best songs.

this song crushes me. the lyrics are so deep in my feels its scary. hits me in the ventricles.

I love this song so so much!

I love this song and the lyrics. Well done.

Several live versions (which don't tell you they are live in their titles) and this "official audio" but no proper video for it.

This tune has a great rhythm, my favorite song on the record!

It does at that. Now hitting the mainstream radio stations in Boston

This is the song that I really liked off the album so I bought it on iTunes. Now I feel like taking a road trip out West..

Will you be selling vinyl at the British gigs? Can't afford the postage from America. Looking forward to hearing it in full!

Please make your way to San Diego!

Relix posted a live version of "Painted Yellow Lines" on their channel.

https://youtu.be/VOmixpI0Beg

Love this song!!!!!!!!

Crazy I'm 21 and can't wait to see you in Iowa, but odd to think I've been listening to you since my brother was in highschool in the early 2000s and showed me you guys. I was 9ish than and still listening. Lol love the song

counting down the days!

god damn this song is fucking beautiful

Dude, loving this song! A serendipitous album at the 20 year mark, so good.

Thumbs up for serendipity, bro.

this song sounds like freedom and nostaliga to me. awesome job. im gonna listen the shit out of this the next few days :D

Love you guys <3

Thanks for sharing...Love the melodies. Looking forward to a future show at the Greek Theater in Berkeley, CA.

I am still patiently waiting for you guys to announce a show in SF/Oakland/Berkeley. Holding my breath, friends.

We're doing west coast dates in the fall. However, we're doing a small free show in Santa Cruz on June 8th. Register to get tickets at www.dispatchmusic.com

I'm not seeing the west coast in your posted tour in the description, it looks like in the fall you'll be in Europe. Is west coast still in the plans? I registered for the Santa Cruz show but didn't get chosen, I'd love to see you guys if possible! (I'm in SF)

Good one! New album starting to look good! :) Good job guys

Really looking forward to the new album - loving all the songs so far. This song has a Guster feel to it.

Every song I've heard from this album so far has been fantastic.

great song!

Love you guys, a one more perfect song!

Chad, your songwriting is better than it's ever been, and I've been listening for over 15 years...

nice song boys. u make great music <3
German fan :)

"Painted Yellow Lines" was written in a brick row house in Richmond Virginia. It's about hitchhiking and jumping freight trains across America, and thinking of the past while searching for a second chance.

In the beginning, we are hitchhiking and the sun is going down - and hope with it. Thumbing it (rubber tramping it) is hard enough in the daylight, let alone the night.

The song then hurtles back to memories of Chad's childhood. He ran away from home when he was nine and made it as far as the chicken coop. His family found him asleep in the shavings. Then the song switches to summer time as a teenager, running barefoot along the yellow lines in the middle of the road at night, followed by later memories of cops, girls and horses.

Recording this song was a unique experience. The production is so seemingly simple, but was quite hard to get right. There were so many layers of color and texture working together to serve the lyrics. The drums were particularly hard to track because we didn't use any fills or hard hitting sections. The restraint in recording all of the parts and just subtly changing up the bass drum pattern became an obsession of ours.

I find it hypnotic in a nostalgic kinda way. It speaks to so many relate-able life aspects. I can 'feel' the textures. So well done.!

thinking of the past while searching for a second chance. Burned up my second chance

Heard this on CBC Radio 2 "Nightstream" last night and was immediately drawn in to these scenarios and feelings. Next thing I know I am googling "skinny horse" and playing this over and over. Such a great night driving song. So refined and subtly expansive. Adolescence embodied in a song.

DISPATCH fantastic song!