Carole of DuBelles

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Oh, the night is coming down in a snow-white regression
while the kids are in bed covering their eyes with the sheets.
The mountains are high, but not as high as they used to be.
I've got the woman I love sleeping down at my feet.

And down comes the word:
She's coming on the twenty-third
Our second cousin, seven times removed,
by marriage and by birth

Here she comes again,
driving down the Itchacreek Highway
with her backseat full of Bibles and stolen toys
from every unlocked church along the way
I don't know why she comes,
but I can't help but feel so half-excited
We'll all smile when we see her and say,
"Welcome home, Carol of DuBelles!"

Oh, the pipes are all froze and the fire is smoking.
I'm down crawling in the crawlspace
with a hairdryer and some matches from the couch.
Carol don't mind.
She's staring out the window with her mouth shut tight.
She's got those thick, glazed eyes
and still ain't said a word since she arrived.

Until she says, "Life was good before
the day before the Persian Gulf War."
Yeah, that's our second cousin,
seven times removed,
by marriage and by birth.

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released December 23, 2013
words and music by Matthew Spainhour
performed and produced by Matthew Spainhour

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