Tiny Angel

from House of Mud by Kelly Pardekooper

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You won’t tell me when we’re going, you won’t tell me when we’re
there
And you never stop to take a breath, Lord knows it’s only air
You go down sweet Virginia into that darkness that I know
That’s why we’re always together when they shoo us out the door
Of some bar where we’ll find shelter from those stars there as they
blink
With the sidewalk rolling round and round as we walk up to the brink
Of that trouble you know it’s coming ‘cause this town knows that’s in
store
And if I had an ounce of sense I suppose I’d walk right out the door
But I watch her as she stumbles through the headlights and the glass
And I see a tiny angel that used to pray with me at Mass
Didn’t know then that she’d be running from the hard light of the sun
That she’d never find the comfort of those mornings when we were young
So go on down now sweet Virginia with your silly drunken stare
I’ll be here come closing time, you know I’m always there
To try and round up all those pieces maybe keep them in one place
Hold you through those nightmares and the changes on your face
But I’m always gone come morning when you’re lying on the mend
‘Cause you’ll be up come sundown to do it all again

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from House of Mud, released May 23, 2002

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Kelly Pardekooper Connecticut

My songs/voice work in 40+ films/TV shows. Iowa City native. “A roots musician who writes some of the sweetest, blues-infused, country-fied, American rock music of our time ”
-No Depression

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3 SONG SLICES

Oct 2023
AUTUMN

Mar 2022
50-Weight

Oct 2018
City At Night

Nov 2016
Milk in Sunshine

Oct 2014
Yonder

Nov 2011
Brand New Bag

Nov 2006
Haymaker Heart

Mar 2005
House of Mud

May 2002
Johnson County Snow

Apr 2000
ARCHIVE

Nov 2019

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