Margo Price - Lydia (Live from Downtown Presbyterian Church)

Margo Price - Lydia (Live from Downtown Presbyterian Church) with tags margo price, willie nelson, swamp rock, wilco, vevo, acoustic, quartet, country

'Lydia' is off of Margo's upcoming album 'Strays'

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Featuring:

Margo Price

Crew:

Produced by Shadowbrook Studios & Filament Productions

Producers, Eric Geadelmann & Kelly Magelky

Directed and Edited by Kelly Magelky

Director of Photography: Luke Askelson

Camera Operators: Luke Askelson, Eric Geadelmann, Kelly Magelky

Sound Engineer and Mixing by Evan Donohue

String Quartet: Larissa Maestro, Chauntee Ross, Nicole Neely, Kristin Weber

Lyrics:

At the clinic wondering what your face would be like

Mascara bleeding to my eyes

Tied like a dog on a chain with a midlife crisis and an ex husband

Sneaking a Marlboro Ultra Light I stole from a nurse out there in the alley

Halfway home is where the heart is and I’m halfway home

White trash, trailer trash, they said you’d always be it

And you said, ‘one day you’ll see.’

But lately you start to wonder if they were right

Spit on you at school outside

In the locker room and bathroom too

Locked you in the stall

Bless this mess, can I bum a light?

The cars out on the LA Freeway they look like red and light Christmas lights strung out on a chain

The ex virgin Mary of 49th street has a pocket full of pills

She sold herself for synthetic heroin and sleeping with a man about twice her age

Really though it was anything but sleeping

Nice neighbors, bad cough,

No health insurance this year, transitional neighborhood

Gentrification comes like it always does and some nice condos they go in

But the needles in the alley they’re still laying there

Don’t go barefoot or take a nap out there

Wear shoes if you have um

Undercover methadone clinic

Children close your eyes

Say a lullaby and think of a nursery rhyme

Or maybe something your mama used to tell you when you were trying to sleep

Jill fell down when the bow breaks oh the cradle will fall

Down will come baby, down will come baby, down will come baby

Put out the cigarette

Just make a decision Lydia, just make a decision

It’s yours

Close your eyes and make a wish

Hear the whisper of God

He used to talk like you, you used to see his face in the clouds

Now I see your face in my mind

It’s wrong for him to want it

Bless this mess, brush your hair

Fix yourself up real nice you’ve got a show tonight

Singing down at the Broken Bottle, half waiting shifts

Get the guys a couple of beers, go on get the food, living off tips and meth

Then I came home after dancin’ one night

And I wrecked my car and you have to take the bus now so you’ve got a long walk to think about it

A long walk to the station,

A long life ahead to live with yourself

So think about it Lydia

Think about it Lydia

Think about it Lydia

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