Debris Lyrics

Debris cover

  • Feather In A Hurricane

    I feel like a feather blowing in a hurricane
    I’ve lost sight of the point, It all feels like a charade
    I’m running a race like a horse whose leg is lame
    And I feel like a feather blowing in a hurricane

    I went for a walk in the woods to get away from it all
    I was trailed by a woman who was jogging and making a phone call
    She was loud and talking 90 miles an hour like she was on cocaine
    And I feel like a feather blowing in a hurricane

    A man in a yellow Hummer was honking at me
    I recognized him as a minister from the TV
    He was smoking a Cuban cigar and eating shepardÕs pie
    There was a sticker on his bumper that read Òwhat would Jesus drive?Ó

    Drove to the gas station, I pumped $100 into my tank
    I stood there crying as the numbers flipped out of my bank
    Does anybody else feel the need for some jacket restraint?
    Do you feel like a feather blowing in a hurricane?

    Cover me, Bree, cause I’m taking on fire and brimstone
    Tether me, please, cause I feel like I’m about to explode
    Light the firecracker now the place is about to blow
    Everybody into the space shuttle, we got no place left to go

    It’s barely February and it’s 80 degrees in the shade
    All the politicians wanna do is talk and talk and debate
    Does it matter who wins the election?

    Their hands are tied and blood-stained
    And I feel like a feather blowing in a hurricane
    I feel like a feather in a hurricane, In a hurricane, In a hurricane

    Michelle Malone (Strange Bird Songs/ASCAP)

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  • Yesterday’s Make-Up

    The sun shines through my party dress
    I look like a sinner but I feel so blessed
    The congregation turns when I walk through the door
    My heels click-clackin on the marble floor
    It’s Sunday mornin’ in my Saturday dress

    I feel beautiful in Yesterday’s Make-Up
    I feel beautiful, I must be in love

    I look like cinderella on her way home
    I fell like wonder woman, righteous and strong
    The preacher keeps preachin’ ’bout heaven on high
    I wanna say “Amen, that’s where I was last night”
    It’s Sunday mornin’ in my Saturday dress

    I feel beautiful in Yesterday’s Make-Up
    I feel beautiful, I been saved by love
    Ain’t it wonderful when your heart gets a wake-up
    And you feel beautiful…

    Preacher says, “Do I know you?” after church lets go
    I said, “I’m not a member here, but I wanted you to know-
    I want the whole wide world to know”

    I feel beautiful in Yesterday’s Make-Up
    Beautiful.I’ve been saved by love
    Ain’t it wonderful when your heart gets a wake-up
    And you feel beautiful
    I feel beautiful

    Michelle Malone (Strange bird Songs/ASCAP)
    Angela Kaset(Purple Sun Music/TenTen Music/SESAC)

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  • Debris

    Kids – they watch everything you do
    Kids – they grow up to be like you
    When – your daddy left you standing there
    Kid – then you learned to disappear

    You built a wall between you and the world
    You thought it could protect you from the hurt

    If you’re lonely, come lay down with me
    If you’re tired, baby, we can just go to sleep
    You don’t have to stand alone in your Debris

    Spark – a memory burning in your mind
    Birthmark – parents fighting all the time

    You Drown – turning up the radio
    Shot down – looking for someone to hold you

    When you were 15 you ran from home
    Don’t you think it’s time to let your childhood go

    If you’re lonely, come lay down w ith me
    If you’re tired, baby, we can just go to sleep
    You don’t have to stand alone in your Debris
    If you’re thirsty, you can drink from my cup
    If you get scared, you know I’ll back you up
    You don’t have to stand alone in your Debris

    Lay down your guns and set your spirit free
    And know that you are loved and love is all you need (solo)

    You built a wall between you and the world
    Don’t you think it’s time to let your childhood go

    If you’re lonely, come lay down with me
    If you’re tired, baby, we can just go to sleep
    You don’t have to stand alone in your Debris
    If you’re thirsty, you can drink from my cup
    If you get scared, you know I’ll back you up

    You don’t have to stand alone in your Debris

    Michelle Malone (Strange Bird Songs/ASCAP)

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  • Undertow

    There are cobwebs on the ceiling fan

    And the lonely 40 watt flickers when the train goes by
    Take out boxes near the garbage can
    And the leaning tower of dishes is getting 3 feet high

    I cant stand – waiting to hear your boots at my door
    I cant stand – wondering if you’re out with that whore
    I cant stand – I drank an ocean of liquor in your undertow

    The faucet keeps dripping like a cannonball
    And I threw my guitar in the fire when I ran out of Duraflames
    The phone kept ringing right off the wall
    But it never was you, so I ripped it out the socket

    and then I cursed your name

    The sun’s been gone for 7 days and you been gone for 9
    The Tennessee river’s just a block away

    I could jump in at anytime

    I cant stand – waiting to hear your boots at my door
    I cant stand – wondering if you’re out with that whore
    I cant stand – I drank an ocean of liquor in your undertow

    I shuffle around like a mental patient
    in my robe and my bedroom shoes
    Flipping channels from my sleeping bag

    and dining on a box of fruit loops

    I cant stand – waiting to hear your boots at my door
    I cant stand – wondering if you’re out with that whore
    I cant stand – wishing that I had never been born
    No I cant stand – I drank an ocean of liquor in your undertow

    Michelle Malone (Strange Bird Songs/ASCAP)

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  • Weed and Wine

    Remember when we used to sneak out
    Remember when we would howl at the moon
    Radio crackling Sweet Melissa
    On a sticky summer night in June

    You always wore that corduroy jacket
    And those bell bottom patched up jeans
    Well, honey, put the m back on
    And Meet me down at the reservoir past the state line
    And we’ll cause a scene

    You bring the weed I’ll bring the wine
    Crawl in the backseat, honey, and have a good time
    You bring the weed I’ll bring the wine
    C’mon and shake my honey

    Sometimes I feel just like a prisoner
    Seems like all I do is go to work and go to bed
    Man, I just wanna have one more night like that
    So wild and free, run around and wake the dead

    You bring the weed I’ll bring the wine
    Crawl in the backseat, honey, and have a good time
    You bring the weed I’ll bring the wine
    C’mon and make some honey

    Give me a chance to take it all away
    I’ll clear your head of all your trouble

    You bring the weed I’ll bring the wine
    Crawl in the backseat, honey, and have a good time
    You bring the weed I’ll bring the wine
    C’mon and shake, shake, shake

    Bring it all back, bring it all back, bring it all back

    Michelle Malone (Strange Bird Songs/ASCAP)
    Cathy Henderson (Red Shirt and Zipper Music)
    Kristen Henderson (Warner Chappell/ 3 Third Avenue)

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  • Marked

    I’m so surprised my head’s still wrapping ’round what you confessed

    you could have knocked me down, your words threw fists

    on your way out you blew a kiss

    I’m so naive; I thought that love was all we’d ever need

    I never thought this could happen to us – broken and hanging on a crutch

    This one’s gonna leave a mark like a rusty knife in surgery

    This ones gonna leave a mark, I been branded by your purgery

    I’m marked by an angry love, I’m marked by an angry love

    I’m marked

    I stayed too long, but I kept hoping that it would get better

    Like it was when we first got together, but your deceit put out the fire

    Tried to hang on, Just about as long as I could stand it

    The situation made me feel so desperate,

    like I’d been been hit by a stray bullet

    This one’s gonna leave a mark I been poisoned by toxic tattoo

    This ones gonna leave a mark, I been dropped kicked by a combat boot

    I’m marked by an angry love

    This one’s gonna leave a mark like a head-on crash with a highway post

    This ones gonna leave a mark,

    I’m wearing windshield glass and blood stained clothes

    Now I’m marked by your angry love, I’m marked, like I been hit by a truck,

    Yea, I’m marked, riches to rags again,

    Yea, I’m marked, where are all my friends,

    I’m scarred, I’m scared , I’m marked

    Michelle Malone (Strange Bird Songs/ASCAP)

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  • Restraining Order Blues

    You vowed you’d love me til the end of time
    Then you ran off with an old friend of mine
    For once she kept her mouth shut about something
    She let you check the oil and try her transmission
    I don’t care what happens to me
    I don’t care what happens to you

    Restraining Order Blues

    Drove by your house a hundred times a day
    Rehearsing all the things that I was gonna say
    Did your friends know that you were running around?
    Did you do her in my bed when I was out of town?
    I poured Dixie crystals into your car gas tank
    While I was at it, I painted it pink
    Pawned my wedding ring for a .44

    Aimed at your house, shot it full of holes

    Restraining Order Blues

    Restraining Order Blues

    The police came and put me in the back seat,
    Well, they cuffed my hands and read my rights to me
    I went peacefully, I felt vindicated
    Passive aggression is over rated
    I don’t care what happens to me
    I don’t care what happens to you

    Restraining Order Blues
    Restraining Order Blues

    Michelle Malone (Strange Bird Songs/ASCAP)

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  • Chattahoochee Boogaloo

    It was a sticky night in June of 85

    down in Macon County

    I just turned 16 – I was wild and green

    and I was looking around for a party

    His name was Johnny Rocket- he lived down the block and

    He rolled out his Grand Torino

    My parents fell asleep, I took my brother’s keys

    And I crawled out my bedroom window

    Chattahoochee Cootchie Boogaloo

    You got what it takes to shake these awkward teenage blues

    Pick me up and throw me down

    Take my hand and show me how to

    Chattahoochee Cootchie Boogaloo

    We drove to Lake Lurlene out by the Dairy Queen

    We had ourselves a good time

    A moonlight swim, a toke and some skin

    Down underneath the southern pines

    We felt like we were grown, the rents would never know

    How we solved the mystery of love

    but the car keys were gone and the sun was comin on

    I had to call my daddy to pick us up- and we were cryin

    Chattahoochee Cootchie Boogaloo

    You got what it takes to shake these awkward teenage blues

    Pick me up and throw me down

    Take my hand and show me how to

    Chattahoochee Cootchie Boogaloo

    Michelle Malone (Strange Bird Songs/ASCAP)

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  • 14th Street and Mars

    I’ve been sitting here on your front porch
    waiting like a fool – I feel so confused
    Nothing much has changed – the picture frame’s
    still laying in the yard at 14th street and mars

    Since you went away
    since you went

    since you went away
    Since you went
    since you went away

    Loo king in the panes, The fireplace was cold
    I tried the door where your hand was before
    Walking through the yard, green with spring
    The dogwood was in bloom – still no sign of you

    Since you went away
    since you went

    since you went away
    Since you went
    since you went away

    All I want to do, all I want to do, all I want to do
    I wanna see your face, I wanna see you
    I wanna see your face, I wanna see you

    I’ve been sitting here on your front porch
    waiting like a fool – you don’t live here no more
    Nothing much has changed – the pictures’ framed
    I’m standing in the dark at 14th street and Mars

    Michelle Malone (Strange Bird Songs/ASCAP)

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  • Sunburn

    Do you feel like no one else will ever love you again
    And you think you’ll be alone forever
    And you tried your best for years but you just couldn’t make it work
    Now you feel just like a great big failure

    So you took a chance
    It didn’t turn out like you planned

    When you re walking in the sunshine

    You might get20sunburned – Sunburn, Sunburn

    Do you feel like you’ve given everything you had to give
    Just like that you’re world has lost it’s brilliance
    Your bubble wasn’t burst, no, it just drifted away from view
    And slowly you lost all your resilience

    So you took a chance
    It didn’t turn out like you planned

    When you’re walking in the sunshine

    You might get sunburned – Sunburn, Sunburn

    There’s a bowling ball inside your throat

    that weights all your words down
    it feels like you’re all alone,

    the only person left here in this town

    People talk and judge behind your back as if you’re made of stone
    It’s not like you’re not hurting
    It’s temporary, everything, your pain and dreams and plans
    There’s no tourniquet to stop the changes – Sunburn, Sunburn

    Michelle Malone (Strange Bird Songs/ASCAP)

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  • Candle For the Lonely

    Light a candle for all the lonely
    Like I used to be so I know
    How it feels with no one and only
    no sweetheart, nobody to hold

    A where oh where is the someone for everyone
    they say that swims in the sea

    I know it’s out there for you,

    can’t you believe

    That in your heart you have saved a place
    For the one who is looking for you
    And all your friends and your family they are
    pulling for love to come through

    out there somewhere is someone for everyone
    no matter who you might be

    I know it can happen for you, it happened for me

    if I had just one gift to give you

    I’d wish you a love like I’ve found
    So keep your head up, don’t give up hope

    and remember the world turns around;

    So I’ll light a candle for all the lonely
    Like I used to be so I know

    Michelle Malone (Strange Bird Songs/ASCAP)
    Angela Kaset (Purple Sun Music/TenTen Music/SESAC)

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