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When Will You Learn

from Not the Marrying Kind by Michelle Billingsley

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The way she said “Chicago” made it sound like a swear
Your ears got hot across the bar, finally God was fair
This one was the one to help you burn away your past
Now she’s purring like a kitten, but there’s silence in your pants
When will you learn?
When will you learn?

She was younger than your sisters, younger than alright
You thought life had missed her, it took her dead between the eyes
Now all the words you’ve heard cannot fix what’s been hurt
So why’re you stuck up on this cross? My how the tables have turned.
When will you learn?
When will you learn?
When will you learn?
When will you learn?

She talked you into a wedding next Friday at 5
Notify your next of kin, find some flowers to spoil that child
You’ve prayed every night and day for your next big break,
So why’re you standing on the highway with your thumb pointed that way?
When will you learn?
When will you learn?
When will you learn?
When will you learn?

You’re a plywood dresser drifter, an unreliable cheat
Your secrets all are worthless, so how you’re going to eat
You’re a flooded basement laundromat with a broken quarter machine
You say, “guys like you”, but you mean guys like me
When will you learn?
When will you learn?
When will you learn?
When will you learn?

credits

from Not the Marrying Kind, track released April 10, 2020
Guitar & vocals: Michelle Billingsley
Electric guitar: Brian Wilkie
Bass: Ethan Jodziewicz
Engineered and mixed by Brian Deck
Recorded at Narwhal Studios, Chicago, IL
Additional Recording: Ethan Jodziewicz
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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