Uploaded February 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago

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My entry for the 2024 Tiny Desk Contest! Shot live at my great big work desk.

Hoping to release this song this year!

Lyrics:

Allen and Lisa
Passing through Pennsylvania
His eyes like rosebuds
Hers are long shut

Last week they fell out
Out of love for a minute
Tonight their car reads
“Just married”

But the moon’s getting high now
And his eyes are giving in
“Do you think that we could stop
For a minute, my dear?”

And it hit like a comet
And her eyes were flooding now
“If we stop this car, this love, this war
For a minute, it’s done”

“My darling Lisa”
He began as he pulled up
“You know I love you”

There on the turnpike
With the paint from the car sign
He wrote on the stone wall
“Allen + Lisa”

Allen and Lisa 
Passing through Pennsylvania 
Her eyes like starlight 
His are shut tight

Her mother’s waiting
At a rest stop in jersey 
They’ll need her helping
With the baby

Check out my original music :)
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/1LKXgif0EK9FfCiFsr1n67?si=WpM6Tj_QTauGGOR5k90zJg
Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/artist/elizabeth-gillen/1510866364
BandCamp: elizabethgillen.bandcamp.com
One & Only Music Video: youtube.com/watch?v=dYq5Owa92B4
SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/elizabeth-gillen

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