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Heavy​-​Headed Girl

from becoming home by Monica Laytham

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(spoken) ...circling back to the beginning...

Oh, I'm a heavy-headed girl,
heavy-headed girl.
I walk around, weighed down,
with a worry and a frown,
trying to ease my troubled mind,
trying to ease my troubled mind.

Well, I went to church,
and I sang the songs,
I sang "Alleluia,"
and I said the words,
said "Make me whole,
I got a bag full of burdens
and the devil on my back,
I'm a heavy-headed girl."

Chorus

I took to the drink -
drink took me in,
and I swallowed down
some rest for the night.
Still lookin' for
a message in that bottle.
Got my mind on my honey
won't take me for a wife,
I'm a heavy-headed girl.

Chorus

Well I'm walkin' down the line,
trying to walk away.
Every place I go I've already been -
high on a hill,
down in that valley.
Walkin' on stones and bones and thrones,
I moan and drone on.
Droppin' gold through the holes
in the pockets of my clothes,
I'm a heavy-headed girl.

Chorus

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from becoming home, released April 7, 2016

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Monica Laytham Evanston, Illinois

After a long life in Chicago, Monica now lives on a catholic worker farm in the rural midwest.

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