La Dispute - HUDSONVILLE MI 1956 lyrics
[La Dispute - HUDSONVILLE MI 1956 lyrics]
There are bridges over rivers
There are moments of collapse
There are drivers with their
Feet on the glass
You can kick but you can’t get out
There is history in the rooms of the house
After dinner do the dishes
Mother hums, the coffeemaker hisses
On the stove, the steam a crescendo
The radio emergency bulletins
And everywhere wind
You took the train down to Terra Haute
Indiana visit family, your childhood home
Give your mother her grandkid
And father a kiss
Put your luggage in your bedroom
In the kitchen sit
With your husband still up in Hudsonville
Until the weekend when his shift
Ends at the furniture mill
Running water for the dishes and
The coffee on the stove
Heard a warning from the corner on the radio
And the glass starts to rattle
In the window frames
So you went underground
Took the staircase down
To the cellar full of hunting equipment
Held your baby in your arms
Read the labels on mason jars
Try not to think about
Your husband in Michigan
Stay calm keep the radio loud
Take care wind howls
Father piles blankets in the
Corner by the furnace mother lights candles
It’s a miracle the baby doesn’t cry
Back home doing yard work outside
Husband being stubborn under dark skies
Saw the fence by the neighbor’s shed split
Saw the kitchen windows start to bend in
So you went down to the back
Steps then to the basement
There were bookshelf plans on the workbench
And a flashlight shining bright
All night try not
To think about your son and your wife
And the lightning that scattered
The night sky and the wind bursts that tore
Up the power lines
At the workbench in the basement
Where you sat and tried to wait out the night
You called for three straight days
Still with your family back home
Up in Hudsonville the worst of
The storms touched ground
And the phone lines were down
Turn the radio up there’s a woman
Who got thrown from her car
Into a barbed wire fence
She was 6-months pregnant
Both her and the baby lived
You tried but the line or
I remember those nights
I couldn’t get through
To you when quiet storms came
Rattled the window panes
Couldn’t keep a thing the same way when the
Storm blew in and the furniture rearranged
I can see lightning there and a funnel cloud
And her mother said "I swear I
Saw lightning in your eyes
When that call got through to the other side"
Stay calm keep the radio loud
Stay down there are bridges over rivers
Sirens in the distant wind howls
Keep down then
After dinner do the dishes mother hums
Wires snap metal gets twisted
There’s the rattle of the window glass
Bending in take the children down
Terra Haute coffee
Thanksgiving stay calm
Keep down at the workbench
Stay and the coffeemaker hisses
Stay calm keep down
Turn the radio there are
There are moments of collapse
There are moments of collapse
There are drivers with their
Feet on the glass
You can kick but you can’t get out
There is history in the rooms of the house
After dinner do the dishes
Mother hums, the coffeemaker hisses
On the stove, the steam a crescendo
The radio emergency bulletins
And everywhere wind
You took the train down to Terra Haute
Indiana visit family, your childhood home
Give your mother her grandkid
And father a kiss
Put your luggage in your bedroom
In the kitchen sit
With your husband still up in Hudsonville
Until the weekend when his shift
Ends at the furniture mill
Running water for the dishes and
The coffee on the stove
Heard a warning from the corner on the radio
And the glass starts to rattle
In the window frames
So you went underground
Took the staircase down
To the cellar full of hunting equipment
Held your baby in your arms
Read the labels on mason jars
Try not to think about
Your husband in Michigan
Stay calm keep the radio loud
Take care wind howls
Father piles blankets in the
Corner by the furnace mother lights candles
It’s a miracle the baby doesn’t cry
Back home doing yard work outside
Husband being stubborn under dark skies
Saw the fence by the neighbor’s shed split
Saw the kitchen windows start to bend in
So you went down to the back
Steps then to the basement
There were bookshelf plans on the workbench
And a flashlight shining bright
All night try not
To think about your son and your wife
And the lightning that scattered
The night sky and the wind bursts that tore
Up the power lines
At the workbench in the basement
Where you sat and tried to wait out the night
You called for three straight days
Still with your family back home
Up in Hudsonville the worst of
The storms touched ground
And the phone lines were down
Turn the radio up there’s a woman
Who got thrown from her car
Into a barbed wire fence
She was 6-months pregnant
Both her and the baby lived
You tried but the line or
I remember those nights
I couldn’t get through
To you when quiet storms came
Rattled the window panes
Couldn’t keep a thing the same way when the
Storm blew in and the furniture rearranged
I can see lightning there and a funnel cloud
And her mother said "I swear I
Saw lightning in your eyes
When that call got through to the other side"
Stay calm keep the radio loud
Stay down there are bridges over rivers
Sirens in the distant wind howls
Keep down then
After dinner do the dishes mother hums
Wires snap metal gets twisted
There’s the rattle of the window glass
Bending in take the children down
Terra Haute coffee
Thanksgiving stay calm
Keep down at the workbench
Stay and the coffeemaker hisses
Stay calm keep down
Turn the radio there are
There are moments of collapse