‘Levi Stubbs Tears’ is the first single released from Bragg’s third album Talking with the Taxman about Poetry in 1986. NME ranked the song at number 207 in their list of The 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time in 2014. It’s a typically poignant paean to the power of music in the face of personal adversity beautifully performed here by Billy.
The Million Things That Never Happened’ is out now on CD and Digitally. Buy on CD, stream now and pre-order the 12“ vinyl LP to get it at the earliest available date
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Lyrics:
With the money from her accident
She bought herself a mobile home
So at least she could get some enjoyment
Out of being alone
No one could say that she was left up on the shelf
It’s you and me against the World kid she mumbled to herself
When the world falls apart some things stay in place
Levi Stubbs’ tears run down his face
She ran away from home on her mother’s best coat
She was married before she was even entitled to vote
And her husband was one of those blokes
The sort that only laughs at his own jokes
The sort a war takes away
And when there wasn’t a war he left anyway
Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong
Are here to make everything right that’s wrong
Holland and Holland and Lamont Dozier too
Are here to make it all okay with you
One dark night he came home from the sea
And put a hole in her body where no hole should be
It hurt her more to see him walking out the door
And though they stitched her back together they left her heart in pieces on the floor
When the world falls apart some things stay in place
She takes off the Four Tops tape and puts it back in its case
When the world falls apart some things stay in place
Levi Stubbs’ tears
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