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Stop the Mail

from If Mama Ain't Happy by Tina deVaron

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This was a demo with just me on vocals, and bass by the impeccable jazz master, John Pattitucci. We mixed and mastered that very demo for the track you hear.

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Stop the Mail
© Tina deVaron

I want the mail to stop coming
I want the phone not to ring
And I wanna stop eating everything

I want the road to stop moving under my feet
I’m losing the breath inside of me

I wanna get off this landslide
Before it mows us all down
This is no way to raise my children

And it all goes through my hands
I am the entrance and the exit ramp
Yeah it all goes through my hands

Well I can’t move my family
To a cave in the hills
And live at the mercy
Of the rain and the wind

And I can’t build a shanty
At the end of our street
And live on the garbage
The neighbors leave

And it all goes through my hands
I am the entrance and the exit ramp
Yeah I said it all goes through my hands
I am the middle of the hourglass

I’m gonna just let the phone ring
I not gonna call back
I’m gonna read my kids a story
This time I’m gonna stay awake
This time I’m gonna stay awake...

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from If Mama Ain't Happy, released June 1, 1998
Tina deVaron, vocals, John Pattitucci, upright bass

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