Hudsonville Mi 1956 Lyrics - Rooms Of The House - La Dispute

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 sit 

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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 

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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 out 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 

Bending 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