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Badlands Honeymoon

from Poor Pretender by Long Mama

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lyrics

South Dakota, about five years ago
We had driven straight for two days up from Chicago
And we drove out to that desolate plateau
Steel eyes staring out across the Badlands below

We crept down, down, down into the mazes
Our boot prints in the mud our only traces
You spied a Coke can from 1965
And I stopped to ask you if you thought the guy was dead or alive

After the sun set, we threw our blankets down
And made love while above us on the prairie the coyotes howled
And that very same night, Lord, I dreamed such dreams
I was sinking through the water, only catfish could hear my screams

When I awoke, the moon was shining bright
But when I looked around there was no sign of you by my side
I waited for the sunrise to take a shot of liquor
Then I turned, and I began to walk across that lonesome desert

After three long days, I thought I saw you, honeybun
You were smiling real sweetly at me right up the barrel of a shotgun
But when I looked again, there was nothing there
Just the sun above and the rock below for me to bear

So when you’re staring deeply into your woman’s eyes
You better not start, no, you better not show any surprise
When you hear my voice from many miles below
Saying, “Come back, baby, better kiss me once before you go.”

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from Poor Pretender, released October 28, 2022
Produced by Long Mama and Erik Koskinen
Recorded and mixed by Erik Koskinen at Real Phonic Studios
Mastered by Justin Perkins at Mystery Room Mastering

Words and music by Kat Wodtke

"Badlands Honeymoon" Track Credits:
Kat Wodtke: vocals, acoustic guitar
Andrew Koenig: electric guitar
Samual Odin: upright bass
Nick Lang: drums
Eva Nimmer: backing vocals
Erik Koskinen: lap steel guitar

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Long Mama Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Long Mama’s music blisters with the heart and grit of someone who has lost hard, loved harder, and licked her burns until they stung then silvered. In a drafty attic just west of the Milwaukee River she grew up on, you’ll find songwriter Kat Wodtke (Wood-key) raking through notebooks in search of a salve: words, stories, and sounds to temper the dumpster fires we never mean to light. ... more

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