Pamme Swan: Swan Songs

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Written in the bitter sweet feeling of letting your children go and getting on with your own life.
Not easy!

Billy Brown Road

I dropped my girl off to get on with her life
I’m a burned out mother and a bored house wife
Flying down Billy Brown road
Skirting the overload
I should be crying
Instead I’m flying
Flying down Billy Brown road

Get out of this house with a paper and a pen
Bout twenty years later and I’m right where I began
Escaping down my Billy Brown road
Out from under the overload
I’m just getting out of here
Cause I’m nowhere near
Escaping down Billy Brown road

Its the middle of April under two feet of snow
The river is raging into fields it over flows
Flooding out my Billy Brown road
Churning mud of overflow
Homes washed away
On an angry wet day
Flooding out my Billy Brown road

He ate my good meal then he tucked himself in bed
I’m surprised he’s not watching some freaking sporting event
Wasted on Billy Brown road
Numbing out the overload
I hate that TV
Sucking up reality
Wasted on Billy Brown road

So I got myself a job singing at an Inn
Under a business card sky making lots of friends
Singing on Billy Brown road
Teasing the overload
Getting along
Singing folk songs
Singing on Billy Brown road

The more I search for me the more quiet I become
My enthusiasm on a slow and steady run
Quiet on Billy Brown road
Accepting the overload
Strong now I can take
Aware now I’m awake
Quiet on Billy Brown road

My girl gives me a call Hey Ma when you coming home
Lets make an Oma chicken dinner an Eddie dog is all alone
Home on my Billy Brown road
Safe to my overload
To my have a heart trap
I’ll spring it an go back
Home on Billy Brown road
Home on Billy Brown road