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Jolie Holland - Springtime Can Kill You Mehitabel's Blues

Contributors

  • ISRC:USEP40608102
  • Recorded:2006
  •  ©2006 Anti-
  • Vocals, Piano, Guitar, Box Fiddle:Jolie Holland
  • Guitars, Piano, Percussion, Rhodes, Electric Bass, Glockenspiel:Brian Miller
  • Upright Bass, Harmony Vocals, Tuba, Lap Steel, Cello, Hawaiiian Guitar:Keith Cary
  • Drums:David Mihaly
  • French Horn, Accordion:Peter Musselman
  • Mellophone:Feddi Price
  • Electric Bass:Olive Mitra
  • Hammond B3 Organ:Sonny Smith

Lyrics

Feeling my blues
I tear myself away
He will never have to hear
What I had to say
My little words
Are lost in the wind
With no where to go
And I am just like them

There's a voice in the alley
In the cold bare arms of a tree
When the moon sails high, a ghost ship
In a dark and lonely sea
Mockingbird, your song burns right through me

Like that little mockingbird
High up in the pine
All I do is worry, all I do is cry
We're lost in the shadows of a beautiful spring
Empty-handed lovers, all we do is sing