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The mother, much older now, searches for her drug addict son, who is off getting high (in this modern ode to the country waltz). She doesn’t know what kind of relief she will feel when she finds him (depending on if he is alive or dead). Meanwhile, her neighbors, untouched by the drug crisis, implore her to let him go (“They say my love won’t win!”). He turns up, but the mother is a broken woman, crying at a sunrise before she goes to bed (“It’s the prettiest lie / It’ll fill your eyes / With every tear in your head”).

lyrics

Looking all over town for him
My hope is fading dim
Looking out for a boy, who can’t swim

A needle lost in a stack
Of needles lost at sea
When I find my love at the oceanside
How will I be relieved?


Too many years have passed, they say
Leave the sinner to his sin
They say my love won’t win

They sit dry there on the sunlit side
With the river played for a wall
But when the moon goes up with the rising tide
The water touches them all


Daylight finds him sleeping in
In a vision so serene
It belies the ugly truth about dreams

Have you ever watched the sun come up
Just before you’ve gone to bed
It’s the prettiest lie, it’ll fill your eyes
With every tear in your head

credits

from Three Generations of Leaving, released November 19, 2021
Chelsey Coy (vocals and banjo)
Shannon Söderlund (harmonies and background vocals)
Charlie Rauh (acoustic guitar, electric guitar)
John Gray (upright bass, electric bass)
Oskar Häggdahl (drums, percussion)

Philip Kronengold (organ)
Thad DeBrock (pedal steel and baritone guitar)

Written by: Gary Knight and Chelsey Coy (More Songs Publishing, ASCAP)

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Single Girl, Married Girl Los Angeles, California

L.A.-based pop/folk/Americana outfit Single, Girl, Married Girl writes songs that are simultaneously beautiful and devastating with poetic, perceptive lyrics that astutely capture what it means to be human.
For fans of Brandi Carlile, First Aid Kit, Jenny Lewis, Lucius, Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, Linda Ronstadt, Fleetwood Mac ... more

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