Barbara

from Better Out Than In by Julia Blair

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There’ll be no funeral for Barbara today
or tomorrow, so please go away.
You may send us money to help bury the body
but there’ll be no funeral for Barbara today.

She would have liked if the kids gathered round
with her brothers and sisters too.
She would have liked to have shrimp cocktail and lemon pie,
but most of all she’d have preferred not to die.

If you’d seen her with her heart beating and red,
if you’d asked if there was something we should have said-
She’d go,  “Don’t say sorry to me.
Don’t say sorry to me.
Don’t say sorry to me.”

Before the dawn breaks, the hopeless run in place
and no one’s eyes will focus on their face.
They’ve been stuck inside for days and
we keep telling ourselves that it’s only a phase.

But if you’d seen them with their hearts beating and red,
if you’d asked if there was something we should have said-
they’d go,
“Don’t say sorry to me, just listen a little more.
Don’t say sorry to me, just believe me a little more.”

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from Better Out Than In, released February 24, 2022
Written by Julia Blair

Amos Pitsch - bass guitar, drums
Julia - lead vocals, backup vocals, strings, rhodes, acoustic piano
Frank Anderson - pedal steel
Choir - Emily Simon, Julie Jilek, Ben DeCorsey, Ryley Crowe, Ridley Tankersley, Luke Crowe, Jake Crowe

Recorded and mixed by Amos Pitsch with Julia Blair at Crutch Of Memory Studios in Appleton, Wisconsin.
Mastered by Justin Perkins at Mystery Room Mastering in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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