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Light Behind Light

by The Honey Dewdrops

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1.
Delia 06:08
Delia the hand of death and the hand of life go walking together side by side they turn and look each other right in the eye death says I bet you I won't blink life says let’s make it interesting the hand of death plays Stackolee so the hand of life plays Billy D they’re playing cards on Christmas eve when Stack bets his stetson hat Billy throws down five twenties on that when Billy plays a flush, Stack gets sore and his hand gets hot on his 44 Billy takes a bullet, then he takes five more and Stack just laughs with delight to see Billy dead on Christmas night Delia, Delia, your man is gone Delia, Delia, your man is gone Delia lives her life between the hands Stack is her brother, Billy is her man she’s cooking in a kitchen off of South Grand trying to make a life with Billy she’s nursing a new born baby when Delia hears that Billy’s dead the words catch fire and burn in her head she runs to the courthouse seeing red tells the judge Stack shot Billy and everyone in St Louis knows he’s guilty the judge says what you want me to do? Stack’s bigger then me, and he’s meaner than you ain’t no telling what the hand of death will do better let your brother be I ain’t messing with cruel Stackolee Delia, Delia, your man is gone Delia, Delia, your man is gone Delia says judge, you got blood on your hands if that’s your law, then your law be damned I had about as much as a woman can and I ain’t about to let it be I ain’t afraid of cruel Stackolee so Delia walks into the Tick Tock bar and she don't have to look around too far cause Stackolee is laughing and drinking hard like he doesn't have a care in the world he says Delia Lee come on over here girl he pours a glass of gin, and he pours another Delia throws it back, says god damn you brother Stack swears by Jesus and the holy father I ain’t never seen you looking so wrong he grins at her and sings along Delia, Delia, your man is gone Delia, Delia, your man is gone Stackolee never sees it coming Delia has a knife whose blade is humming when she stabs it in his gut where his blood is drumming a smile curves across her mouth as Stackolee’s blood is pouring out Stack had drunk about a bottle of gin and he don't feel nothing when the blade goes in lightning flash, when she strikes again and Delia Lee hits the mark she drives steel through his demon heart time stands still at the Tick Tock bar when the hand of death falls down hard at Delia’s feet, Stack breaks apart like a curse has just been broken undone by a righteous woman Delia, Delia, your man is gone Delia, Delia, your man is gone
2.
Heart Wants 04:35
Heart Wants where there once, was a mountain high up a used to be hill my heart goes, climbing up alone like there’s a mountain there still I can’t see it, I can’t feel it he can sense what I never will my heart wants what he wants even when I tell him no I try and try to change his mind but my heart knows what he knows ghost swimmer, on a forgotten river making his way, taking his time my heart’s a sailor, he’s a natural navigator he can swim all the way home blind he’s on a journey, and my chest is empty it's a mystery I’m still alive my heart wants what he wants even when i tell him no i try and try to change his mind but my heart knows what he knows my heart’s a deer, back in the mirror blurry in the trees, off of the road it’s hard to say, if he’ll stay or run off somewhere nobody knows he’s turning a corner, crossing the border into dimensions I can’t follow my heart wants what he wants even when I tell him no I try and try to change his mind but my heart knows what he knows
3.
Weep 04:29
Weep you want the sun when moon’s in power, baby don't you weep no more the day is born from the darkest hour, baby don’t you weep no more butter on the bread, wine in the cup, baby don’t you weep no more you say don’t but you had enough, don’t you weep no more the good times come, the good times go, baby don’t you weep no more I love you fast, and I love you slow, baby don’t you weep no more I’m a listen here, I’m a listen now, baby don’t you weep no more tell me what you’re crying about, what you crying for baby don’t you weep, baby don't you weep baby don’t you weep no more you cried up a creek till it flooded the floor baby don’t you weep no more I hold you close but you're far away, baby don’t you weep no more I’ll try tomorrow like I tried today, don’t you weep no more mercy lord, mercy please, baby don’t you weep no more I give you this life from inside of me, baby don’t you weep no more Mercy lord, mercy me, baby don’t you weep no more I might not live if you should leave baby don’t you weep, baby don't you weep baby don’t you weep no more you cried up a creek till it flooded the floor baby don’t you weep no more
4.
Luck 05:11
Luck if you burn all the wood where you gonna find another cord winter’s high, winters wide and supplies are running short its cold comfort when everyone you know is burning green wood against the cold and you pray to luck and you pray to luck you fall so hard into love that love shatters like glass you cut your fingers on the pieces feeling round for a second chance you can’t taste the whiskey you can’t hear the songs you can’t go home now there’s nowhere you belong and you pray to luck and you pray to luck you want answers who don’t want you you call on Jesus but he’s a busy dude you think till your face turns blue blue look yonder a new day is turning ain’t that a lucky break I see tomorrow turn her back on every yesterday and yesterday’s drag yesterday’s game wash away with yesterday’s rain and you pray to luck and you pray to luck
5.
Moon Pies 03:55
Moon Pies Roy clark, played guitar In your living room on a Saturday night We’d tune in, turn up the volume and watch Roy’s fingers fly, boy his fingers could fly You’d pop the popcorn and pour a couple cokes and we’d listen to Roy and laugh at his jokes Sitting by you, on a Saturday night Captain D’s, Moon Pies and ice cream Eating in the car at the park We’d watch the planes land and race our bikes While the Saturday sky turned to dark, down at Dorey park He’d smoke in the car the whole way home And you’d cuss and you’d tell him exactly where he could go: Right down to hell, talking to rough, on a Saturday night I was a kid, and you had time And some old joke about waiting around to die And you would laugh, you’d laugh, you’d laugh, ha ha ha I scrubbed your floor, I cut your grass For ten bucks I’d do anything you’d asked It was a summer a day, coming on hot and clear And ended with a storm ringing in my ears We’d ask for Moon Pies and he’d go have a smoke And it rained so hard the current would flicker and finally go I remember you, on a Saturday night Sitting by you eating Moon Pies, on a Saturday night I remember you, on a Saturday night
6.
Holy Hymn 04:29
Holy Hymn When you walk in the wilderness through the valley of tears up the hills of unrest Hear a bird sing her song with ease I hope that holy hymn sets you free winds will pass through the walls of time storms come and go with no rhythm or rhyme May your ghosts be unbound to roam and your river of grace guide you safely home When a light whispers to the mind through the wild night and darkened sky let it shine, let it shine Clear a path to the highest peak Like a stone sits still where the waters run deep In the fields where fear may grow may you find a peace in what you don’t know (Chorus) When you walk in the wilderness through the valley of tears up the hills of unrest Hear a bird sing her song with ease I hope that holy hymn sets you free May that holy hymn set you free
7.
Garden 04:09
Garden I was walking in your garden dreaming late last night I saw lilies and asters beds of yarrow and iris I felt the heat of the day still glowing down in the dirt it felt good to be walking with my bare feet on the earth I wandered through a bed of herbs pressed their leaves to my skin sweet basil and black sage lavender and peppermint I was walking in your garden I was walking in your garden late last night darkness lay with the nightshades tempting the flowers to bloom down I laid for the slow parade in the grass, I heard a voice like you whispering of tasting a tomato ripe on the vine the sweet and the acid mysteriously combined the dream twisted and turned me obscuring the fruit from my eyes then I woke here in your garden curled up beneath your tomato vines I was walking in your garden I was walking in your garden I was walking in your garden late last night
8.
Stoney 06:10
Stoney Stoney he’d get lonely for the hard stuff and he’d take himself to a meeting down at the church he’d open doors on the past and walk right through to where he was at drinking store brand Dr. Pepper from a can as he was running on seven years a sober man Stoney lived alone here down in Tucson on his patio, every day, with the radio on his partner was Bruce, for thirty some years till Bruce met a younger man with a beard who taught college kids philosophy in Ohio and last year Bruce bid Stoney good-bye-o and the Tucson sun shines bright and the heat of the day don't last all night and the hills of cactus roll down to the border of Mexico Stoney’s beagle Josie was a true friend together they went walking down the street Josie’d sniff out all the stories then she’d mark her territories while Stoney waved to the kids playing up the street and they'd run on down to give that dog a treat Stoney kept his home the way he liked it he kept the radio on dancing through the quiet he could a been lonesome with grief but Bruce’s break was a sweet relief their life together became a long, dangerous silence a softly spoken intolerable form of violence the Tucson sun shines bright and the heat of the day don't last all night and you pray that some rain just might fall, fall, just some small mercy from the sky nobody thought of Stoney as a phony friend and neighbor he had a way of looking you in the eye right from the bottom of his heart he worked at Pima county Ford as a mechanic and you knew you could call him up in a panic first thing in the morning when your car won't start Stoney would always fix that broken part the Tucson sun shines bright and the heat of the day don't last all night out of the blue rain might fall, fall, just some small mercy from the sky Stoney left his body on a Wednesday with the radio on talking tired and lowly a neighbor was stopping on by found the old man just after he died sitting peaceful in a lawn chair next to Josie looking just like he was the same old Stoney and the Tucson sun shines bright and the heat of the day don't last all night and the hills of cactus roll down to the border of Mexico
9.
Tuning To 04:18
Tuning To the light you lit, warmed the room the words you spoke, revealed the view the supper you made me, made me new the home you built was safe and strong the passage you cleared was still and calm the time you gave me, goes on and on I thought it was light I thought it was food I thought it was air I was breathing the room but it was you and your spirit I was tuning to tuning to you told me what, you couldn’t know you knew a signal came in from out of the blue the parts of me, you found, were parts of you you hung a mirror, in your eye it showed my face, catching light you looked my way, and I came to life I thought it was light I thought it was food I thought it was air I was breathing the room but it was you and your spirit I was tuning to Tuning to

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released April 15, 2022

Produced by Nicholas Sjostrom, Kagey Parrish & Laura Wortman

Recording engineered and mixed by Nicholas Sjostrom
with tracks 1, 3, 6, 7 mastered by Nicholas Sjostrom

Tracks 2, 4, 5, 8, 9 mastered by Anna Frick, Airshow Mastering

Album photograph and design by Scott Dennison

Recorded at Clean Cuts Studio in Baltimore, MD Sept/Oct 2020

Musicians:
Kagey Parrish - Guitar, Vocals
Laura Wortman - Guitar, Vocals, Banjo
Nick Sjostrom - Drums, Piano, Bass
Alex Lacquement - Upright Bass


All songs written by Kagey Parrish and Laura Wortman © ℗ 2022 The Honey Dewdrops, BMI

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The Honey Dewdrops Baltimore, Maryland

Virginia born, Maryland based singer/songwriters Laura Wortman and Kagey Parrish make up the duo The Honey Dewdrops. They will release their seventh album, Light Behind Light, on April 15, 2022.

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