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HERE WE GO AGAIN

from SOMETHING GIGANTIC by Brett Miller

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This song also has dual inspirations. It started as a song about Ree Dolly, the Ozarks seventeen-year-old in Daniel Woodrell’s novel, Winter’s Bone (played by Jennifer Lawrence in the Hollywood film). As I was working on the song, my friend Melissa Millsap told me about a teenage girl she had befriended at Urban Roots Farm. The girl started coming around and volunteering on the farm. Mel would give her fresh vegetables to take home, and it all seemed to make the girl really happy. But, over time the gravitational pull of generational poverty, her family, or the local drug culture pulled her away, and Mel lost track of her. I was struck by the power our familial and cultural DNA has over us, even when we try to make good decisions. And the culpability we all share when our collective sins are visited on the innocent.

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She grew up hard and early
With her hands balled into fists
She took what she had coming
And not what she had wished
A lifetime of playing the fool
Living by someone else’s rules

There’s a winter deep beneath her bones
And deep under her feet
She can start a flame
But she cannot feed the heat
One log alone can’t hold a fire
Sometimes fate drowns out desire

Well she’ll be here again
‘Cause she’s been here before
Her blood runs methamphetamine
And burns through her like war
She waits for her troubles to begin
She pays the wages of our sin
And there she goes again

It’s not like the movies
Where the hero gets there just in time
Every day’s like Sisyphus
With nothing but the uphill climb
If she makes the rent this month
She’ll be doing fine, doing fine

With the fist of her ancient god
And the fruit of her beliefs
A mind like Deuteronomy
And hands like common thieves
She waits for her troubles to begin
She pays the wages of our sin
And there she goes again
There she goes again

We wait for our troubles to begin
And we pay the wages of our sin
Here we go again

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from SOMETHING GIGANTIC, released March 19, 2020
Brett Miller: vocals, acoustic guitar, percussion
Barak Hill: acoustic guitar
Karl Eggers: electric guitar
Dallas Jones: piano, bass
Brandon Moore: drums

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Brett Miller Springfield, Missouri

Brett Miller is a singer-songwriter from Springfield, Missouri. After over 15 years writing songs, singing, playing rhythm guitar, and recording three studio albums with his band Brother Wiley (also known as Mincks & Miller), Miller released a solo album of 14 original tracks, recorded and produced by fellow Midwest musician, Barak Hill. ... more

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