La Dispute - Hudsonville lyrics

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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 coffee maker hisses on the stove

The steam a crescendo

The radio emergency bulletins and everywhere wind.

You took the train down to Terre 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 sink.

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

Tried 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 window 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 up 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 six 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 blending in

Take the children down, Terre Haute coffee

Thanksgiving, stay calm

Keep down at the workbench!

Stay and the coffee maker hisses

Stay calm, keep down

Turn the radio!

There are

There are moments of collapse!