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Loose Cannon

by Olivia Ellen Lloyd

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1.
Well you know me at least that’s what I think I can’t keep my mouth shut Especially when I drink But at the end of the day there’s worse places i could be I ain't young no more should do what i'm told but lately being good's been getting a little old So I'm still sitting at the bar when I know damn well I should just go home I got a sneaking suspicion That we’re al…ready alone but I get my keen Intuition from living with all of these ghosts Gossip knows she’s got a good job in this town and she knows the worst ways to loosen up your tongue Whiskey works but she’ll tell you pills get the job done Did I touch you at all when I saw you last May had my hair done up cause it was on my wedding day And I know I was drunk but you left me sitting there so late I got a sneaking suspicion That we’re already alone but I get my keen Intuition from living with all of these ghosts I know there's nothing much to do in Shepherdstown But get the lead out of you boots you better stop hangin' round you oughta get out and find yourself a new home Or you might just end up livin' with a ghost of your own Maybe it’s the time or maybe it’s the drugs or the realization that I don’t know enough But it’s three in the morning and I’m baking bread I know that i wont eat I’ve got two bad eyes but even I can see shadows sneaking out the backdoor in my periphery Are they hoping to be ignored Or are they reaching out to me I got a sneaking suspicion That we’re already alone but I get my keen Intuition from living with all of these ghosts I know there's nothing much to do in Shepherdstown But get the lead out of you boots you better stop hangin' round you oughta get out and find yourself a new home Or you might just end up livin' with a ghost of your own
2.
Emily 04:53
3.
Loose Cannon 03:52
I don’t stay out late much anymore Most nights I’m in by nine or ten And I don’t rant and rave after a drink You could say that I am saner then I’ve been I used to cry at the drop of a hat Used to feel every goddamned thing I would crawl on my knees through broken glass Trying to feel a different kind of pain But I don’t dream as hard anymore Now the world don’t feel quite as big as before Girl you were such a loose cannon You were such a loose cannon Flying high I always wondered where you would land Traveled ‘round for a couple of years but the road was never a good fit Every town felt new for a couple days until I fell into the same old shit Now I live somewhere not so far away but it feels like a different kind of world From open fields and late night driving but I swear I am the same old girl But I don’t dream quite as hard anymore Now the world don’t feel as big as before people said Girl you were such a loose cannon You were such a loose cannon Flying high I always wondered Where you would land Well I weren’t born with no hollow bones So ya know I was never one for flying I suppose I was falling, falling til I landed hard tried to pull myself together but in the end I fell apart But I don’t dream quite as hard anymore Now the world don’t feel as big as before People said, Girl you were such a loose cannon You were such a loose cannon Flying high I always wondered Where you would land
4.
I’ve been crying tears but they ain’t mine for too long too long Been writing bad checks from an account that’s been closed all along Please excuse me if I’m out of style But I haven’t played this game in a while and I wouldn’t want these clumsy lips Getting in the way of your good time Just to be frank For a second I did think that I might’ve loved you right got me all mixed up in your blue eyes although I tried with all my might Please excuse me but it’s you to blame sayin’ you don’t happen to feel the same I know that I ain’t much to write home about but I didn’t come to play this game You seem to prefer a certain kind of girl who’s adept at breaking hearts But I must confess I couldn’t be less I wouldn’t know right where to start Please excuse me if I’m out of line when I place bets on your breaking mine Cause i'll be cashin' in when you’re stumbling out the door with your last dime Please excuse me if I’m out of style I just haven’t played this game in a while Cause i'll cashin in when you’re stumbling out the door wasting all my time
5.
River Run 04:20
Well that evening turned so quickly into morning I ain’t never seen this side of 6AM Could you hold me for a second and imagine there aint no consequence for where i’ve been I ain’t ready to go home and face the music and I ain’t ready to feel bad for what I’ve done But the sun is in the clouds and i know right about now and there’s hardly any place for me to run Oh my darlin wont you sleep a little longer ‘Cos I need a couple minutes to myself trying to sort out all these thoughts and what I'm feeling into something that might be worthwhile to tell Cos I cant break your heart this early in the morning And I don’t know if we should throw in the towel So when you ask me where I’ve been I fake a tired casual grin and all these lies pour like water from my mouth As a girl I used to wake up from the same dream where i’m floating in a river beneath the trees When all of a sudden without warning the water rose up ‘fore I had a chance to breathe And I’m reminded of that sick and sorry feeling when I realize you know just what I’ve done But I can’t undo the past, the water’s flowing way too fast nothing to do but Hold My Breath let the river run And I don’t wanna go home and face the music No I’m not ready to feel bad for what I’ve done But you can’t undo the past the water’s flowing way too fast Nothing to do but hold my breath let the river run.
6.
Sorrow 03:18
Well --- The problem with liquor’s I’ll drink it If I keep but a drop in the house And the problem with gossip’s I think that it's true even if it's just going around And the thing about sorrow, the part I could never get down it will crop up all on its own like it took the express train to town Comes along when it wants to Like a bad boyfriend from college Hits you up with that coulda been shoulda been All that terrible knowledge It will find you in the bathroom when you’re trying to get ready It will meet you as you're getting off work and the sun is only barely setting It will catch you off guard on the way home you try to forget it But as that sorrow creeps into your bones well you know you are bound to regret it Comes along when it wants to Like a bad boyfriend from college Hits you up with that coulda been shoulda been All that terrible knowledge The thing about music’s it makes us feel like we all got a story to tell And sad songs they just conjure up sorrow like some kind of obvious spell Do my best to avoid it, I do yoga and sometimes I pray But every so often I put on a record And let sorrow drag me away Comes along as expected Like you finding me drunk at the bar When I get on with that coulda been shoulda been you know we aint getting far Comes along when it wants to Like a bad boyfriend from college Hits you up with that coulda been shoulda been All that terrible knowledge
7.
I’ve been biting my tongue I’ve been grinding my teeth I’ve been sleeping too long hoping that I might wake from this dream And I’ve been getting too drunk taking the edge off my day but this smiling lush can’t lift her spirits no matter what I drink And I aint saying its your fault my life’s turning out this way I only know when you were here I weren’t in so much goddamned pain And Ive been sleeping alone ‘cause who could ever love me With a heart made of stone and eyes full of tears and a cup that’s half empty So if you see me someday sleeping out on the street Won’t you please turn away don’t let me see what might have been Ive got a couple of friends I’ve got this little guitar But at the end of the day what I don’t got is a cure for this broken heart And I aint saying its hopeless this little life of mine I’m only letting you know know my expectations awell they ain’t too high. And you could blame the time you could blame the day you could even blame god But for God’s sake Why Don’t you just blame me
8.
I’m getting high and lonesome Strung out over you Do you wanna get low and loathsome I’ve got some damage I could do I’ve got troubles that’ll curl your hair And worries for to turn those green eyes blue Ever since I was a young girl they knew that I’d soon go bad Get my meanness from my momma And my fighting from my dad I sure never dreamt I’d meet the likes of you Shoulda known from the first second that you’d prove to be untrue I’m getting high and lonesome Strung out over you Do you wanna get low and loathsome I’ve got some damage I could do I’ve got troubles that’ll curl your hair And worries for to turn those green eyes blue People often ask me if I feel bad doing wrong If I’d ever ask forgiveness from our God or in a song Truth is i don’t think too much on good or bad I only know that I want everything you tell me I can’t have I’m getting high and lonesome Strung out over you Do you wanna get low and loathsome I’ve got some damage I could do I’ve got troubles that’ll curl your hair And worries for to turn those green eyes blue I guess the time has come for me to get on down the road Pack up all my things and pull up every seed I sowed Wish i could leave these memories of you And all this awful loving that you went and put me through I’m getting high and lonesome Strung out over you Do you wanna get low and loathsome I’ve got some damage I could do I’ve got troubles that’ll curl your hair And worries for to turn those green eyes blue
9.
The West 02:59
Strung out again up in Michigan so I don’t think I’ll stay here very long and West Virginia feels like a long lost friend but I don’t know if I can go back home Well, I don’t know much about the West But I can smell that salt air on your chest And the pacific coast’s been in my dreams Saying “darlin’ won’t you come and sit by me” Spent a summer sweating in the trees way down south in Smoky Tennessee And the boys well they were mighty nice to me but i don’t think they could give me what i need Well, I don’t know much about the West except for bronze skinned girls and Jack Kerouac I think that big sky might help me to forget about the weight that’s been hanging down around my neck I even tried the foggy skies of London The cold wind and the rain they got me down And all the people made me blue as hell I didn’t think too much to stick around Well I don’t know much about the West but I when I reach the Rockies maybe I could rest inside a new ole life whatever I need best Oh I know that I gotta give it a chance.
10.
live at the foot of a mountain of things other folks threw away and my husband he weren’t such a good man when he left i didn’t have much to say at night you can hear the dogs barking up the hill the street lamps look like stars far safer than down in the valley heaven’s always just past where you are won’t you sing it one more time now that old song I once knew so well like momma used to murmur when we had no cares at all Close your eyes to remember where the hill meets the endless sky the home we were meant to grow up in where we saw mom and daddy die When we arrived I worked in a factory We didn’t speak the language well I’d walk miles to that job in all weather You miss the rain when it’s hotter than hell Fall asleep to the wind whistling by me through the cracks in the roof of our home Dream the wind lifts me out of this valley but I can’t leave these children alone. won’t you sing it one more time now that old song I once knew so well like momma used to murmur when we had no cares at all Close your eyes to remember where the hill meets the endless sky the home we were meant to grow up in where we saw mom and daddy die Sometimes I feel I can’t take it Living low to the ground we can’t leave And the fire will never stop burning in the air that my kids have to breathe But every day we climb out of this old shack for a chance to work in the town maybe someday we’ll burn down the mountain and that way we won’t have to go back won’t you sing it one more time now that old song I once knew so well like momma used to murmur when we had no cares at all Close your eyes to remember where the hill meets the endless sky the home we were meant to grow up in where we saw mom and daddy die

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released February 28, 2021

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Olivia Ellen Lloyd Brooklyn, New York

Olivia Ellen Lloyd is a West Virginia-raised, Brooklyn-based country artist. Her debut album, Loose Cannon, premiered to critical acclaim in February 2021.

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