Name: One Slip
Duration: P00H03M14S
Description: Substance abuse has risen dramatically in economically depressed areas of the country. When mines and plants shut down and layoffs occur, it takes a devastating toll on the area and particularly on the compromised bodies of the workers. One slip and you may easily end up on the bottle or addicted to painkillers to help get you though the day. A sad reality.

One Slip

from Songs of Mesabi by Greg Tiburzi

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Substance abuse has risen dramatically in economically depressed areas of the country. When mines and plants shut down and layoffs occur, it takes a devastating toll on the area and particularly on the compromised bodies of the workers. One slip and you may easily end up on the bottle or addicted to painkillers to help get you though the day. A sad reality.

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One Slip

I'd take anything, almost anything,
what else can you give, to make me feel better?
Laid up on the couch, momma's on the floor,
there's knocking on my door

(bridge one)
County's comin' for my daughter
This time maybe they should take her away

She'll be in better hands, if I let her go,
comfort when she cries, to make her feel better
This back is killin' me, these pills ain't doing shit,
what else can I get, to make me feel better?
Haven't got a choice, how you gonna live,
nothing left to give

(bridge two)
All it takes is just one slip,
then one day they take it all away

I'd be in better hands, if I let it go,
how could it be worse? Maybe make me feel better
Waiting for the boy, from the candy store,
there's knocking on my door

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from Songs of Mesabi, released June 14, 2022

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Greg Tiburzi Duluth, Minnesota

Inspired by pop radio, the American songbook, folk and world music, and rock from Chuck Berry on, Greg Tiburzi blends guitar and harmonica to back his compositions of loss, redemption, and fragility of the human condition. He reveres the healing quality of music, the ability to lift and better connect us to each other, our surroundings, and ourselves. ... more

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