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The Woman Upstairs

from Gone Places by Scott Hrabko

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The Woman Upstairs - © 2013, Scott Hrabko

The sun was ablaze in a dog day haze
It was daylight wasting time
I said hail, hail, the landlord in jail
I never got to say goodbye

Down by the tracks
With the barking out back
Three hard luck stories high

The woman upstairs
Would let down her hair
And you knew it was Saturday night

She was chaste as a racetrack rabbit
I was holy as a hobo’s shoe
We were broke as the Ten Commandments
There was nothing much else to do

But cash in the bottles
And get another bottle
And drink till the well run dry

The woman upstairs
Would let down her hair
And the stars would fall from the sky

When the lights go down
And the lost are found
Somebody’s bound to lose
She’s yours for a song,
But never for long
Pretty soon you’ll be singing the blues

They tore down the house
I was telling you about
And put up a vacant lot
But I still dream
Of the same old street
The reckoning ball forgot

Dead dandelions
Blowing backwards in time
When time was on my side
A little love affair
With the woman upstairs
Oh, darlin’, just leave on the light

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from Gone Places, released November 23, 2013
SH - Vocals, Guitar
Mark Acuff - Drums
Doug Shaffer - Bass
David Williams - Pedal Steel
Susan Newton - Fiddle
Pat Pearce - Piano
Emily Tummons - Harmony Vocal

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Scott Hrabko Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City's Scott Hrabko is an independent singer/songwriter who has followed his own mercurial muse since the town's late- 80s indie rock scene.

“Hrabko’s rootsy songs are filled with trap doors, hidden nooks, and secret passageways. They’re like those dreams within comfortably familiar houses that suddenly have brand new rooms.”
Mike Warren - No Depression
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