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{{Infobox song
| Name = All The Lost Souls Welcome You To San Francisco
| Cover = AMC-Golden.jpg
| Caption = ''The Golden Age'' cover
| Artist = [[start|American Music Club]]
| Album = [[The Golden Age]]
| Released = 2008
| Format = CD
| Length = 2:43
| Label = [[Merge Records]] (US) / [[Cooking Vinyl]] (UK)
| Writer = [[Mark Eitzel]]
| Producer = [[Dave Trumfio]]
| Tracks          = 
# "[[All My Love]]"
# "[[The John Berchman Victory Choir]]"
# "[[The Decibels And The Little Pills]]"
# "[[Sleeping Beauty|The Sleeping Beauty]]"
# "[[The Stars]]"
# '''"All The Lost Souls Welcome You To San Francisco"'''
# "[[Who You Are]]"
# "[[Windows On The World]]"
# "[[One Step Ahead]]"
# "[[The Dance]]"
# "[[I Know That's Not Really You]]"
# "[[On My Way]]"
# "[[The Grand Duchess Of San Francisco]]"
}}
[[File:AMC-LostSouls.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Promotional CD]]
'''"All The Lost Souls Welcome You To San Francisco"''' is the 6th song on [[start|American Music Club]]'s 9th album, 2008’s ''[[The Golden Age]]''. A promotional CD single was issued to press and radio with plans for a commercial release date of September 15, 2008, but it only came to fruition as a digital 3-track release, backed with demos of "[[The Stars]]" and "[[Who You Are]]".

[[Mark Eitzel]] told ''Pop Culture Press'' that he wanted to write a song that could rival “[[I Left My Heart In San Francisco]]” as a love letter to his adopted hometown “That song is one of the perfect songs. I really love it. So I thought I would write my own tribute."<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.popculturepress.net/american-music-club-gets-happy-sort/ | work=Pop Culture Press | date=February 16, 2008 | author=Tony Sclafani  | title=The American Music Club Gets Happy (Sort Of) | accessdate=June 16, 2017}}</ref>

==Lyrics==
Years ago my soul went missing<br>
It was looking for a life no one would mourn<br>
Now it stumbles like the smile of some fool<br>
Looking to the sky for shelter from the storm

All the lost souls welcome you to San Francisco<br>
It's a city that was built by firetrucks<br>
and skeletons who grin and grin<br>
Pimps and thieves who can't believe their luck<br>
Saints who are only holy when they sin

Now I came looking for the party<br>
So come on Marty, you're the king of 22nd Street<br>
Just give me some hope, or at least enough rope<br>
Can you make my heart feel complete

All the lost souls welcome you to San Francisco<br>
You can always find me at the celebration<br>
Waiting for the glory to strike me dumb<br>
Trying to keep the good times rolling<br>
Because they're almost gone

All the lost souls welcome you to San Francisco<br>
It's a beauty our hearts all recognize and never get their fill<br>
Everyone is humming a love supreme<br>
And watching it pour softly down the hill

All the lost souls welcome you to San Francisco

==Video==
Official video directed by [[Jon Ramos]] and produced by [[Jessica Petelle-Slagle]] and [[Sara Cline]], as part of [[The Masses]].
<embedvideo service="youtube">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwDHyueZvI4&w=425&h=355</embedvideo>

American Music Club performing "All The Lost Souls Welcome You To San Francisco" on April 12, 2008 in Chicago, IL, USA.
<embedvideo service="youtube">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TSH3B6j85o</embedvideo>

Mark Eitzel performing "All The Lost Souls Welcome You To San Francisco" on September 14, 2007 in Ghent, Belgium.
<embedvideo service="youtube">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7WQvcRut9g</embedvideo>

== Personnel ==
*[[Mark Eitzel]] - vocals, guitars, keyboards, additional production & editing
*[[Vudi]] - guitars, accordion, keyboards
*[[Sean Hoffman]] - bass guitar, backing vocals, guitar
*[[Steve Didelot]] - drums, percussion, backing vocals, guitar

==Also appears on==
* ''[[Atwater Afternoon]]'' <small>Rehearsal</small>
* ''[[Solo Acoustic Live 2005-2007]]'' <small>Mark Eitzel - live version</small>

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

[[Category:AMC songs]]
[[Category:Promotional & limited]]