Story behind the song: http://megbarrettmusic.com/2015/10/bottoms-up/
Music and lyrics by Margaret Barrett.

Lyrics:
Oh Lord, do you need a glass of wine just to deal with me?
They say the truth can be unkind, especially when you know what you mean

So is it red or is it white, just to look at me?
I’m always holding on so tight. You were already freeing

Step on step and word on word
I was gonna be different you were gonna be heard

I would hand you that glass of wine, if it’d help you love me
How can someone be so kind when you’ve seen the me that is me?

Step on step and word on word
I was gonna be different you were gonna be heard

Come to think of it, I don’t think you need any help just dealing with me
I think you’re over the trying kind. I think you see the meaning in the sighing.

Step on step and word on word
I was gonna be different you were gonna be heard


Wine

Tribute to my dad. Written in ATX. Music and lyrics by Margaret Barrett.

Words and Music by Margaret Barrett
Story behind the song: http://megbarrettmusic.com/2015/09/using-the-in-between/

Lyrics:
I paved your own way
 Bore a hole straight to the vein
 A slow release
 Of time-refined infantry
 Marching up the stairs to my brain
 Finding your friends I thought were done away

You’re in my bones

I know your type
 I’ll be strong till you start winning fights
 Down on my knees
 We’ll lock eyes and we’ll both see
 There’s a home for you in me
 You’re my should-be enemy

But you’re in my bones

I’m host to an ancient battle
 Good and evil take their sides
 Winning isn’t getting better
 It’s knowing who owns the fight

Because it’s in my bones


In My Bones

Words and Music by Margaret Barrett
Story behind the song: http://megbarrettmusic.com/2015/10/waiting-room/
Lyrics
If you’re gonna come back
Now would be a real good time
No promises how you’ll find me
Can’t seem to walk a straight line

You had your reasons for going
And they’re real good so I hear
But time moves on and this baby woke up a woman
And nothing got anymore clear

So let my head hit the floor
We’ve met there a time or two
I think I know what’s going on but you write the story and I’m always wrong
So I’ll take my cues from you

You leave me in the waiting room

Someday we’re gonna take a drive
And for the first time I won’t be trying to find
The next turn on the road of life
We’ll just cruise

You’ll tip my chin and see my eyes
And it won’t scare you the sin they’re trying to hide
You’ll take my hand
And we’ll leave it all behind

Till then I’m getting through the days
With too much wine and a pretty face
Trying to remember there’s a reason
For the waiting room


Waiting Room

Ladders

Fix Me

Words and Music by Margaret Barrett
Story behind the song: http://megbarrettmusic.com/2015/09/facing-the-music/

Lyrics:
Getting buried underneath
 What you’re asking me to be
 I’ve tried running and letting go
 You won’t stop asking and all I know

You’re danger, danger, dangerous

It’s easy to be a lie
 Have everyone say you lived right
 I’m so close to hiding in what I know
 But you are the haunting that just won’t go

You’re danger, danger, dangerous

I’ve warred against you and you’re not leaving
 I’ve tried to teach you and you’re still screaming
 You’re chaos in sheep’s clothes
 You always win, even though I know

And for all you’re asking and all I could be
 I’m at the edge of my meaning or I’m wasting me
 And for all you’re asking and all I could be
 I’ve lost all clear thinking or I’m finding me


Muse

Texas songbird writing, recording and delighting my apartment neighbors :)

Meg Barrett

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