• Artist: Midwest Dilemma
  • Title: Timelines & Tragedies
  • Genre: Production - Americana/Western, Rock - Indie Rock
  • Mood: Sentimental/Ballad
  • Speed: Slow (45-63)
  • Instruments: Real Drums/Drum Kit, Acoustic Guitar (Guitar, Banjo, Mandolin), Strings, Percussion, Horns/Woodwinds/Brass
  • Track type: Lyric - Full Length
  • Date added: 4/19/2012
  • Lyric themes: Soul Searching, Frustration, Other, Uncertainty Questioning, Hope, Happiness Joy
  • Lyrics: Timelines & Tragedies (1980): there will be no mourning on this side of the bed no sheets for your mattress or pillow for your head our breath it billows like smoke from the cold air that's creeping in from the window that was cracked so say your goodbyes to the blue house in riverside the one with white shutters and doors you're saving your treasures like faded love letters but now your moving up town love is like a freight train when your tied to the rails you go where it takes you and that's how love goes you watched your kids grow through timelines and tragedies when the steel whistle blows your a catastrophe working and wishing you were young like your son working and wishing you were done love is like a freight train when your tied to the rails you go where it takes you cause that's how love goes

About Midwest Dilemma

Midwest Dilemma

Omaha, NE United States

Midwest Dilemma - Timelines & Tragedies Release @ The Slowdown - Omaha, NE (May 17, 2008)

Midwest Dilemma presents orchestral folk songs and waltzy ballads on their debut release titled "Timelines & Tragedies." Twenty-three members, consisting of strings, woodwinds, brass, orchestral drums, and nontraditional chamber instruments accompany singer-songwriter Justin Lamoureux. "Timelines & Tragedies" is a timeline of family history, tracing Lamoureux's ancestors to their days of French Canadian fur trading, the struggles of his parents' generation with Vietnam, concluding with his life in Omaha. "Timelines & Tragedies" is the perfect outcome ...

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