They Sent Me a Picture

from Thunder in My Arms by Lissa Schneckenburger

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lyrics

They Sent Me a Picture, by Schneckenburger/ Erelli

They sent me a picture of my little girl the other day
She was so beautiful, she’d grown so tall
She was laughing with her hair brushed from her eyes
She looked right at the camera but she didn’t see me
Her smile went straight through me but she didn’t see me

CH
I’m no good to you, oh honey
I’m no good to me, you know that
I’m no good to anyone at all
I’ll never be around

The day that she was born the heat felt heavy and my body low
The air was steeped with sweet honeysuckle
I held on to the porch railing in the sun
Counting contractions waiting for my little one
Way back when I thought that she would be my little one

CH

They say if you feel sad and low you get to acting bad, I know
That if it’s true then I have plumbed the depths
I can watch myself from far away outside
It wasn’t me that did it, it was someone else
I’d never stoop so very low it must be someone else

CH

And so I tuck her photo back behind the books up on the shelf
Her smile haunts me as I leave the room
I move into the kitchen looking for a place to hide
The light above the sink is glaring at me in the night
I turn my face away and I sink slowly in the night

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from Thunder in My Arms, track released May 17, 2019
Lissa Schneckenburger (lead vocals, violin) Jefferson Hamer (acoustic guitar) Alec Spiegelman (woodwinds)

By Schneckenburger/ Erelli
Arrangement by Schneckenburger/ Spiegelman
Produced by Lissa Schneckenburger and Alec Spiegelman
Recorded at Frost Studios (Brattleboro, VT) by Lissa Schneckenburger, and by Alec Spiegelman at The Chamber of Commerce (Brooklyn, NY)
Mixed by Robin MacMillan at Faraway Sound (Brooklyn, NY)
Mastered by Toby Mountain at Northeastern Digital (Southborough, MA)
Graphic design by Adam Agee
Photography by Corey DiMario

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Lissa Schneckenburger Brattleboro, Vermont

Thunder in my Arms, Schneckenburger’s first release of all original music, is a song cycle about attachment and trauma. After decades as a traditional fiddler and ballad singer, her personal experience as a foster parent ignited her drive to write stories of family attachment and loss. The music can be at times brazen, resilient and triumphant, softly confessional, or warm and comforting. ... more

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