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When Bitter Met Sweet

by Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters

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1.
Penny 03:10
All the boys on the corner just standin’ round say here comes Penny in her ’88 Royale What’s she doing now? She’s the queen of their hearts she’s the talk of the town she’s got rattle snake boots, don’t let nothing slow her down or turn her around Oh, Penny don’t let no one turn her down She don’t sugar coat it, she don’t tell lies she gets what she wants, all she gotta do is smile and they all get in line She turns the fools into saints, the saints into fools she can shoot her whiskey, plays a real mean game of pool All the boys get schooled Oh, Penny, they all wanna lose to you She ain’t pretty but she got what it takes Her eyes don’t water, her heart don’t break Sister don’t like her, calls her a tramp but she’s just jealous cause she can’t get what Penny can and she don’t understand I don’t want money I don’t want love just wanna be like Penny when I grow up She’s just like the birds on the telephone wire if she don’t like it all she gotta do is fly and she don’t say why Oh, Penny, what’s it like to be so justified? She ain’t pretty but she got what it takes her eyes don’t water, her heart don’t break Mama don’t like her, she calls her a tramp but she’s just worried cause she can’t see what I can and she don’t understand I don’t want money I don’t want love Just wanna be like Penny when I grow up smoke Pall Malls and talk real tough drink white liquor and never get drunk be just like her when I grow up Just like Penny when I grow up
2.
Looks like another early night in Carolina I’ve got a movie, black and white, and a bottle of red wine If I answered, if you called me, I would say I’m doing fine and I’d like to think we’d both know I was lying Cause when I close my eyes I’m sitting there in Brooklyn spilling hot soup on the tiles of my brother’s kitchen floor and if I find myself tonight, I swear it’s not cause I was looking If I haven’t shown up yet, what am I good for? But somewhere between Michigan and Texas, I do believe that I’ll be new again and no matter where I go I feel my fickle heart forgetting She’d make a home out of anywhere I’ve been I bought myself a brand new pair of blue jeans ‘cause I’m tired of being righteous, playing every game for keeps most of all I’m tired of riding shot gun in my dreams and I just want something simple, something clean Somewhere between Delaware and Georgia I made trouble, and I learned to call it a friend Now I’m promised, but I promise, if you’d just lend me a quarter I would call you up and call you home again
3.
90 Miles from Nashville, on the Memphis side the river’s filling up and the trucks are blind They say it don’t come easy, so I’m not surprised to find you don’t get much for putting in your time Honey, you’re the rock, so I play the star but I’m nothing if nothing’s what they see so you can build me up or you can break my heart and my father’s child is all I’ll ever be Baby when the tide rolls in, I’ll be leaving on that morning train you won’t even know I wrote this song for you All across the state of Tennessee, I can hear you calling me but my hands are tied and there’s nothing I can do They teach you not to bite on the hand that feeds, but when you’re starving, Lord, sometimes you just don’t know If the hand is soft, and the eyes are sweet and they say a ring means nothing on the road
4.
It’s a new day all around, there are flowers where the rain fell down when I wake up, I remember what I like about this town I take my coffee on the back porch I take the plastic off the windows and the front doors Winter’s arms begin to melt and they can’t hold me anymore Cause you just can’t stop the sun and when the time is right the night will come A storm rolls in and turns the sky to black but I’m getting good at waiting on the clouds to pass I take some time to count my blessings a car that drives and some hand me down dresses and I thank my stars that I’m alive cause you know some days I forget but you just can’t stop the sun when the time is right the night will come a storm rolls in and turns the sky to black but I’m getting good at waiting on the clouds to pass I’m still a little rusty when I smile but my bleeding heart’s bled dry, there’s nothing left to do but feel all right so leave the windows open wide, the air is so alive tonight even the city noise outside is sounding like an angel choir
5.
Did he ask about me? Did he ask if I’ve been writing? and did you tell him we’ve been fighting? Did he say that that’s too bad? Could you see it in his eyes? He still holds a candle for me I know you think I’ve gotten boring But I could always make him laugh I don’t know the answer I didn’t even hear the question You see I ain't been payin attention I was thinking bout the way it used to be When all our bills were paid and you’d say Honey, let’s sleep late and we’d laugh at all the cars out in the street and we drank too much but we were so in love Let’s not forget just how it went when Bitter met Sweet I don’t know why I keep rewinding when the movie always ends the same Bogie always puts her on a plane and Rhett don’t give a damn I hope it’s good love that you’re finding and you know I can’t blame you 'Cause I bit the apple too, caught the sinner’s blues but baby, it was pure When all our bills were paid and you’d say Honey, let’s sleep late and we’d laugh at all the cars out in the street and we drank too much but we were so in love let’s not forget just how it went when Bitter met Sweet let’s not forget, that’s how it went when Bitter met Sweet
6.
Looks like your game, but you’re not laughing well honey, that’s why it’s called cheating just take a look at who you’re playing with and take a look at who you’re beating I know you don’t like to admit it but you don’t know what you do it for He used to be some kind of hero down at Lena’s now he don’t go there anymore So look at what you’ve done I guess you’re not so kind as he’s been telling everyone Look at what you’ve done to his mother’s favorite son Now you pretend like you don’t know him when you see him on the street and I guess you really showed him cause he smokes three packs a day and he don’t sleep, and he don’t eat
7.
Josephine 03:23
Little one I know, I was blind to let you go after all I’m just another, not a saint I got tired of trying and baby it’s just not your time but I hope that you’ll come back to me some day Oh Josephine, take pity on me There’s sleep in my eyes, I’m dead on my feet Please believe, I’ve given all that I can give Oh Josephine, take pity on me When a dream comes true, suddenly you got something to lose worried blues and debts to pay so you drink hard liquor, try to make your skin grow thicker but you’re praying to be broken every day Oh Josephine... When I close my eyes to sleep I see your smiling face and every time you leave it gets harder to stay it gets harder to keep turning you away
8.
All I Got 03:48
I couldn’t sleep in the summer heat so I went for a drive and I wound up in some diner, down a ways on 25 pretended that I did not live here, I was just a stranger passing through just another face with out of state plates and a smokey old motel room Cause it’s a shame to regret what you have not done to know that you had no good reason to run still there ain’t no shame in being young and you’ll learn to love what you can’t escape like the wax on top of the birthday cake and the way that leaving always makes you want to stay If I gave a little, would you give a little? Or would you take all that I got? and if you had a little, would you save a little piece? I don’t need an awful lot Every night when I lay me down to bed I pray to the lord not to strike me dead before I get back to those ones I don’t want to forget Cause I don’t have the patience for anyone new it’s the worn out places where the light shines through and if I’m gonna be lonely I’d rather be lonely with you
9.
For Eleanora 04:49
You were the darling of the back alley bars and the one night stands the sweetheart of Harlem, and they’d all gather round just to hear you again Playin’ midtown Manhattan, you still got’em all in the palm of your hand white gardenias and satin, but you’re still hangin’ round with the boys in the band Whatcha drinking, Eleanora? Got you’re eye on the top shelf? hell, I’ll do what I can for you, but you should learn to help yourself They’re sick of your drama, so you’re working for your ticket home and you just miss your mama, you just want someone you can call your own What you need is a good man, someone to take care of you cause you don’t give a goddamn, you earned what you got now it’s yours to lose But where’d you get that shiner, Eleanora? Is he hitting you again? Don’t you know everyone adores you? Can’t you find a better man? They took all your money you’re jewelry and your fancy clothes and they called you a junkie, came just to hear you miss a note
10.
Fancy Car 04:34
What a fancy car you ride in when you go when you go winding down the mountain, nice and slow So shoot your whiskey straight and drink your coffee black cause you know baby when you go, you ain’t ever coming back When I was a young girl, my daddy said to me he said listen to me sugar, you let those bad men be Oh but me and all those bad men, we get along so swimmingly So shoot your whiskey straight and drink your coffee black cause you know baby when you go, you ain’t ever coming back A girl could cause some trouble in this town and once you get me going, you ain’t gonna slow me down...
11.
Not Over Yet 04:04
I used to be a little girl in the back seat of the car, wearing hand me down tee shirts Stan Rogers on the tape deck, and I knew all the words Every day we fought the good fight and every day was glory and sure enough the sun would come and rise up every morning and everything I ever knew, I learned from bed time stories I used to miss you all the time now mostly I just miss when it was all so cut and dry Ly-di-ly So don’t be afraid to ask me to stay that’s OK, go ahead and light another cigarette it might be ending, but it ain’t over yet I never felt so fearless as I did today when the rain clouds started lifting and the Southern sky was pink and gray I stood outside and shivered, until they took it all away 'Cause When you go all that you’ll leave me is your laugh and a postcard from somewhere across the tracks if you underground, I know you ain't coming back So don’t be afraid to ask me to stay that’s OK go on and light another cigarette it might be over but let’s not go home yet

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Recorded at Echo Mt Studio in Asheville, NC, April 2011
Fan funded through Kickstarter!!!!

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released May 1, 2012

Amanda Anne Platt...vocals, rhythm guitar
Peter James...lead and rhythm guitar, harmony vocals
Tal Taylor...mandolin
Matt Smith...pedal steel and dobro
Nicky Sanders...fiddle
Mark Platt...harmonica
Je Widenhouse...coronet on track #9
Ian Harrod...bass
Mike Rhodes...drums
Richard Foulk...drums on track #8

Jon Ashley...drums on track #3

shakers, tambourines and stuff provided by Pete James and Jon Ashley


Recorded at Echo Mt Studios, Asheville NC
Produced by Peter James and Amanda Anne Platt
Assistant Producer Aaron Price
Engineered by Jon Ashley
Assistant Engineer Julian Dreyer
Mixed by John Keane at Echo Mountain Studios, track #8 mixed at John Keane Studios, Athens GA
Additional mixing by Jon Ashley at Echo Mountain
Mastered by Dave Harris at Studio B Mastering in Charlotte, NC

Cover Art original drawing by Amanda Anne Platt
Album design by Pawprint Design

Music and lyrics by Amanda Anne Platt
Buttons Down Publishing (ASCAP)
copyright amanda anne platt 2011

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The Honeycutters are an Asheville, NC based five piece featuring featuring the original compositions of singer and songwriter Amanda Anne Platt. Their first album, "Irene" met approving Americana audiences from coast to coast, and they are excited to release their sophomore effort, "When Bitter Met Sweet," in May of 2012. ... more

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