Heartache Central Time" MAY be an Amy Ray song. I don't actually

know much of anything about it, except that the sole version I have

is a studio version, featuring organ, piano, bass, and drums, in

addition to A&E. I don't know when it was recorded, but I'm guessing

- only guessing, mind you - that it MAY have been an out-take from

the EP sessions. Or, possibly, from a live-in-the-studio radio

broadcast, such as WRFG's "What the Folk," or WREK's "Live at WREK."

It's a silly kind of country-and-western style song that makes

pinning a stylistic date down difficult, but Amy's lead vocal

suggests (to me, anyway) that it may be from around 1985-6.



Heartache Central Time



Thought you were one who wouldn't run

Who wouldn't do me wrong

But the song that you were singing

Was the same old heartache song



You treat me fine and you wined and dined

And I believed you when you said

"I love you, babe," but your only aim

Was to get me in your bed



Now I don't even like you no more

But I can't get you off of my mind

Baby, you've got me livin' in Heartache Central Time

(Heartache Central, Heartache Central, Heartache Central Time)



Anytime is a hurting time

With a hurting heart like mine

God knows I'd get over you if only I could find

A way to get my hurtin' heart



off Heartache Central Time



Remember last September

When you looked into my eyes

I should have known that the love you'd shown

Was nothing more than lies



I fell for you and I know it's true

That I should have stopped myself

But my lonely heart was too alone

To hurt all by itself



Now I don't even like you no more

But I can't get you off of my mind

Baby, you've got me livin' in Heartache Central Time

(Heartache Central, Heartache Central, Heartache Central Time)



Anytime is a hurting time

With a hurting heart like mine

God knows I'd get over you if only I could find

A way to get my hurtin' heart



off Heartache Central Time