Lyr Req: Button Up (Heidi Talbot)

Subject: Lyrics for Button Up by Heidi Talbot
From: widowmaker
Date: 05 Dec 20 - 06:35 AM

Hi anyone help with lyrics and chords for Heidi Talbots “ Button Up”?

Subject: RE: Lyrics for Button Up by Heidi Talbot
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Dec 20 - 10:21 AM

Heidi Talbot wrote the melody. King Cresote wrote the lyrics. (Perhaps that info will assist someone trying to fill your request.)

Subject: RE: Lyrics for Button Up by Heidi Talbot
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Dec 20 - 10:30 AM

PS It may be of help if you post the lyrics you presently have. Thank you.

Subject: RE: Lyrics for Button Up by Heidi Talbot
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 Dec 20 - 06:22 PM

Here's a recording. Pretty song, but I wish she had better diction. Last time I tried to transcribe a Heidi Talbot song, somebody gave me a Mondegreen certificate. So, I'll just admit I can't do it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHbFdl2ObKI

Subject: Lyr Add: BUTTON UP (Heidi Talbot)
From: Reinhard
Date: 05 Dec 20 - 09:19 PM

The handwritten lyrics in the album's booklet are a bit hard to read but here they are, with a few small corrections to what Talbot actually sings.


BUTTON UP
As recorded by Heidi Talbot on "Angels Without Wings" (2013)

The sky looked none too clear
The weather warning is foul but not severe
And ignoring a gale-force five I brought you here

In the calm before the storm
I thought to button up and batten down
Any yet a tornado trail of clothes litters the floor

You laid waste to prairie states
Spirit landmarks all erased
And my tin roof is gone and my tractor's couped
You've blown yourself right out of no doubt
Leaving nothing above the ground to shelter me

And the storm moved on
And the damage is done
And your tempest wrung the raindrops out of me
And it left a broken heart in the rubble underneath

There's not much time
Before the elements combine
And the pressure builds on high and I am burned

In the calm before the storm
I thought to button up and batten down
I anxiously rebuild my home for your return

You laid waste to prairie states
Spirit landmarks all erased
And my tin roof is gone and my tractor's couped
You've blown yourself right out of no doubt
Leaving nothing above the ground to shelter me

And the storm moved on
And the damage is done
And your tempest wrung the raindrops out of me
And it left a broken heart in the rubble underneath

Subject: RE: Lyrics for Button Up by Heidi Talbot
From: widowmaker
Date: 17 Dec 20 - 06:26 PM

Thanks everyone, the lyrics were a great help