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A Birthday in the Pawnshop (Morristown)

from Seen Enough Leavers by Meghan Hayes

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lyrics

Lightning turned the leaves on the trees around
Every night that summer down in Morristown
Thunder shot curses across the sky
By morning not a single blade of grass was dry
We set up shop behind the A & P
The wind, the rain, and Rex and me
In Morristown

Daddy left mama for a case of beer
And in case he changed his mind, she moved us here
Rex had a sister, a fluent pen, and the
Shell of a man where his dad had been
We told stories about what oughta be
And tried on lives we’d never see
In Morristown

CHORUS:
Don’t know how much of this story
You’ve already heard
Man trades a diamond ring
For a mockingbird

We called our baby Lila and we set to work
To spare that child a world of hurt
In between jobs we took the time
To love on her and teach her nursery rhymes
One for all and all for one
We mighta been hungry but we sure had fun
In Morristown

Lila could sing before she could talk
Her voice made the hardest man’s edges soft
Tried to let her songs lure me back to the world
But I had a bad case of being my daddy’s girl
I guess there’s no cure for a heart that’s broken
Before it even starts beating by words unspoken
In Morristown

CHORUS

Rex lost it all at the greyhound track
I couldn’t have held a job if it was strapped to my back
The night before Lila reached the age of nine
I threw myself a farewell party of meth and wine
The walls were dirty and the lights were dim
Rex identified my body as next of kin
In Morristown

CHORUS

credits

from Seen Enough Leavers, released May 31, 2019
Meghan Hayes – vocals
Audley Freed – electric guitar
Goffrey Moore – acoustic guitar
Dex Green – bass, vocals
Tommi Rautiainen - drums

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Meghan Hayes Nashville, Tennessee

Meghan Hayes is a singer-songwriter, Nurse Practitioner and landscape designer living in Nashville, TN. Her most recent record, Seen Enough Leavers, is a bruising post-divorce document of pain, anxiety and loss, that has been lauded as “one of the best Americana albums in recent history.” Hayes is currently interviewing producers for her next record. ... more

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