Erin Jordan: Music

This is a song about a woman I knew from my college town. She did not go to school; she just lived in the area and worked as a cocktail waitress. She moved out of the town several times, but always ended up coming back.

This is a song that is set in dive bars and in corn fields. I wrote this song in 2006 and The Whiskey Romance played it out at our early shows. I have tried several home recordings of this song, and the song has continually told me that she does not want to be recorded! After not playing the song out for a long time I edited it a bit, changing the key and some of the phrasing. This is the first recording of the song I have done that I am happy with.

Our virtues may be different but our vices are the same

Is that why you came here Natasha

Autumn comes limping into the town and sets it’s heavy medicine bag

On the table Natasha

So what will it be another cup of tea

I know you and you know you drive me to madness sweet dear

It’s a lazy day in your midwestern condition

You will the twister would blow these sins away

The cat’s come out to play in the sunnier weather

Now there’s dirty feathers on your mother’s rug

You moved to Myrtle Beach one year you wanted to see

What it was like to live on the end of a pier sweet Tasha

But all the roads are circular that run out of here

They run out of here and run straight back to here

And it’s a lazy day in your midwestern condition

You wish the twister would blow these sins away

The cats come out to play in the sunnier weather

Now there’s dirty feathers on your mother’s rug









You said you’d run off with the carnival and learn the trapeze

Away from the corn and off toward the sea

But no - not tonight

You say the well is drunk dry and all these days are wasted

And there’s nothing to do except cocktail waitress

So make it a tall one tonight

Make it a tall one tonight

Make it a tall one tonight