Broken
from "Free" by The Melobellies
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lyrics
Just like the movies
I was your knight shinin' through your dark
You were my queen of the rodeo
No hangin' fire -- only took one spark from you
That's how it starts -- 'n why we see it through
The summer nights in the twisted sheets
Magnolia breeze driftin' 'cross your skin
Then time stood still, or we forgot the time, or maybe time ran out
Still we can't speak about the things we knew
It starts with broken promise on your birthday
Broken axle on the interstate
Broken record on the stereo
Tellin' me over and over now, "Johnny be good."
We laugh it off and knock on wood
Collapse the sky and let the rain pour down
Babies come as surely babies grow
Money runs like muddy coffee pours -- keep addin' to the chores
How will it all get done -- nobody really knows
I broke my back to make a better life
It broke my heart to miss my children grow'n
"The invisible girl -- I'm married to her
Fadin' right before my eyes nearly every day,"
Cries the rodeo clown from his lawn mow'r.
When you ain't wrong, you know you're just not right
When you ain't dead, the dyin' go to work
You do the dishes but they don't stay done for long
You do the time but then the time gets gone
'Cause there's a broken swing on the playground
Broken screen on the back door
Broken heart slumped at the stove top
Fryin' up all of your eggs with a broken yoke
Babe, you just can't fix all the things we broke
Broken dishes in the kitchen sink
Broken hand and a hole in the wall
I know we're broke -- I checked my checkbook
Rackin' up all of them bills at the tradin' post
And like a kid, we only break the things that we love and treasure the very most
And it's just like the movies, Baby
That's why they break the glass after every toast
And Jesus couldn't fix all the things we broke.
Words and Music copyright © 2010 by Joseph North
I was your knight shinin' through your dark
You were my queen of the rodeo
No hangin' fire -- only took one spark from you
That's how it starts -- 'n why we see it through
The summer nights in the twisted sheets
Magnolia breeze driftin' 'cross your skin
Then time stood still, or we forgot the time, or maybe time ran out
Still we can't speak about the things we knew
It starts with broken promise on your birthday
Broken axle on the interstate
Broken record on the stereo
Tellin' me over and over now, "Johnny be good."
We laugh it off and knock on wood
Collapse the sky and let the rain pour down
Babies come as surely babies grow
Money runs like muddy coffee pours -- keep addin' to the chores
How will it all get done -- nobody really knows
I broke my back to make a better life
It broke my heart to miss my children grow'n
"The invisible girl -- I'm married to her
Fadin' right before my eyes nearly every day,"
Cries the rodeo clown from his lawn mow'r.
When you ain't wrong, you know you're just not right
When you ain't dead, the dyin' go to work
You do the dishes but they don't stay done for long
You do the time but then the time gets gone
'Cause there's a broken swing on the playground
Broken screen on the back door
Broken heart slumped at the stove top
Fryin' up all of your eggs with a broken yoke
Babe, you just can't fix all the things we broke
Broken dishes in the kitchen sink
Broken hand and a hole in the wall
I know we're broke -- I checked my checkbook
Rackin' up all of them bills at the tradin' post
And like a kid, we only break the things that we love and treasure the very most
And it's just like the movies, Baby
That's why they break the glass after every toast
And Jesus couldn't fix all the things we broke.
Words and Music copyright © 2010 by Joseph North
credits
from "Free",
released July 8, 2016
Joseph North - Lead vocals, guitar
Scott Swartzwelder - BG vocals, drums
Hiawatha - BG vocals, bass
Dayna Wittman - bass
Joseph North - Lead vocals, guitar
Scott Swartzwelder - BG vocals, drums
Hiawatha - BG vocals, bass
Dayna Wittman - bass
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The Melobellies Chapel Hill, North Carolina
A genre-bending tapestry of songs from the point-of-view of colorful characters transcending their every-day existence. On
Plymouth Rock, The Melobellies paint pictures of love and loss, and great expectations against the ragged backdrop of the American Dream.
Sometimes a bit cheeky, often laced with sharp irony, the music of The Melobellies is easy to dance to, but made for listening.
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Feb 2017 -
Jul 2016 -
Nov 2012
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