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Drink 'Til I'm Pretty

from Not the Marrying Kind by Michelle Billingsley

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Neighbors heard mama yell when dad took off the belt,
“The good Lord will walk with me through the valley”
“Ah now, look what you’ve done, now you get another one”
Momma got two for begging heaven

For all my promises of running away and easier days
Shouldn’t I have ended somewhere better than this?
Old habits die hard, dreams die young
And nothing changes but my face

So I drink ‘til I’m pretty far down
‘Til the stars in the sky ain’t nothing to the feel of my thighs
Against that saddle on the bottle

Every day of 20-whatever feels like it’s pointing me backwards
Shoving me back in the box of where I came
I can’t breathe and I can’t float
Got nothing that tastes of hope
And I can fault a tree just for its shade

There’s other towns, and cheap hair dyes
First impressions before they’re wise to the dark pit you pray would disappear
Ah but wishing is what wishing does, this shit is what it always was
And the dollar store always needs cashiers

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from Not the Marrying Kind, released June 12, 2020
Guitar & vocals: Michelle Billingsley

Engineered and mixed by Brian Deck
Recorded at Narwhal Studios, Chicago, IL
Mastered by JJ Golden, Golden Mastering
Produced by Matt Brown

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Michelle Billingsley Chicago, Illinois

"Biting & enigmatic. …the knock ‘em dead bravado of Nancy Sinatra and the blunt storytelling knack of Neko Case." -Glide Magazine

“Charming ... candid." - American Songwriter

“Biting wit...all in a tongue-in-cheek gently honky-tonkin’ spirit." -Americana UK

Michelle will remind you of an Emmylou who went through the looking glass.
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