La Dispute - Hudsonville, Mi 1956 Lyrics






There are bridges over rivers
There are moments of collapse
There are drivers with their feet on the glass
You can kick but you can’t get out
There is history in the rooms of the house

After dinner
Do the dishes
Mother hums
The coffeemaker hisses on the stove
The steam a crescendo
The radio emergency bulletins and
Everywhere wind

You took the train down to Terra Haute, Indiana
Visit family, your childhood home
Give your mother her grandkid and father a kiss
Put your luggage in your bedroom in the kitchen sit
With your husband still up in Hudsonville
Until the weekend when his shift ends at the furniture mill
Running water for the dishes and the coffee on the stove
Heard a warning from the corner on the radio
And the glass starts to rattle in the window frames

So you went underground
Took the staircase down
To the cellar full of hunting equipment
Held your baby in your arms
Read the labels on mason jars
Try not to think about your husband in Michigan

Stay calm
Keep the radio loud
Take care
Wind howls
Father piles blankets in the corner by the furnace
Mother lights candles
It’s a miracle the baby doesn’t cry

Back home doing yard work outside
Husband being stubborn under dark skies
Saw the fence by the neighbor’s shed split
Saw the kitchen windows start to bend in

So you went down to the back steps then to the basement
There were bookshelf plans on the workbench
And a flashlight shining bright all night try not to think about your son and your wife
And the lightning that scattered the night sky
And the wind bursts that tore up the power lines
At the workbench in the basement
Where you sat and tried to wait out the night
You called for three straight days
Still with your family back home
Up in Hudsonville the worst of the storms touched ground
And the phone lines were down
Turn the radio up
There’s a woman who got thrown from her car into a barbed wire fence
She was 6-months pregnant
Both her and the baby lived
You tried but the line or…

I remember those nights
I couldn’t get through to you when quiet storms came rattled the window panes
Couldn’t keep a thing the same way when the storm blew in and the furniture rearranged
I can see lightning there and a funnel cloud
And her mother said “I swear I saw lightning in your eyes
When that call got through to the other side.”

Stay calm
Keep the radio loud
Stay down
There are bridges over rivers
Sirens in the distant
Wind howls
Keep down
Then
After dinner do the dishes
Mother hums
Wires snap
Metal gets twisted
There’s the rattle of the window glass
Bending in
Take the children down
Terra Haute
Coffee
Thanksgiving
Stay calm
Keep down
At the workbench
Stay
And the coffeemaker hisses
Stay calm
Keep down
Turn the radio
There are
There are moments of collapse





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  1. C.... R....

    I miss hearing the full thing

  2. Z.... H....

    I live in Hudsonville and never seen anything in this song

  3. P.... S....

    I was at a la dispute show and the best part was at the end of this song I made eye contact with jordan and we sang coffee together and he smiled a bit

  4. f.... ....

    why does this low-key sound like Justin Roiland

  5. B.... P....

    It’s funny cuz I live in Michigan and the first time we studied this I listened to this for the first time

  6. C.... K....

    Congrats and I am glad you felt a little resolution

  7. F.... ....

    3:28 "There's the ratle of the window glass Bending in" :P Never noticed that in 4 years

  8. C.... T....

    Wow I just looked up Hudsonville Michigan because that's the city I live in, and this is the first video that popped up.

  9. I.... L....

    There's not a day that you don't run through my thoughts, I miss you in every passing moment of my life now that I've faked to seem as if I'm happy and settled. We were destructive, but there was something in that uncontrollable storm that we called love that you had became forever scarred into me. Unruly but, maybe in another life.. In this band did I find some unfathomable comfort in our downfall, circa 2016. Thank you.

  10. A.... ....

    what a fucking masterpiece

  11. J.... L....

    Saw you guys live and it was hands down one of the best experiences I've had. Your music has kept me afloat in my darkest times. Thank you for this blessing

  12. F.... ....

    when I was rather young, about 7 (this was 1998) in michigan, we had a really bad storm, we lived in a town I wont really specify outside of Flint, the storm ripped the town apart, power lines and poles ruining houses, no power, we had a lot of large trees all over the place, my home had three, the one on the side of the house, a 4 story willow tree went down, if it had fell towards the left it would had crushed our house, instead it went down on the right and took out the side of the lawn and our fence that connected with our neighbors. The pine tree that was equally tall had the top of it chopped off by something. The shop behind the house, a carpet store suffered the fate we almost took part in. It was a terrible storm, when it ended we drove around town looking at the damage. over half the town without power.

    that was the first of many throughout the 20 something years I lived in Michigan. I got out right before the bad winter storms started happening. First year I lived in Florida, a storm during the winter hit Grand Rapids, everything froze, town went out of power, my cuz from Gaylord worked on restoring the power, it was a mess. I thought maybe the weather shit would come to an end, sadly Saint Augustine was the hotspot for two major hurricanes as of recently.

    F.... ....

    The storm in '98 - was it late Jan or early February? I live in Canada and our whole city shut down for two weeks because of a horrible ice storm that year. Same one?

  13. c.... ....

    Why'd I decide to listen to this. I have to go to school in ten minutes and i'm bawling my eyes out.

  14. L.... B....

    I'm thankful that these guys are from my city! This is possibly my favorite song from this band and it will always have a special place in my heart

  15. E.... L....

    i live like an hour away from Hudsonville

  16. J.... F....

    Anyone is australia perth to colab>

  17. M.... J....

    I'm near Hudson ville

  18. M.... M....

    ana sent me here

  19. i.... a....

    There's only a handful of people I feel comfortable listening to la dispute with. Idk why, I have a weird fear and don't like people listening to my music, especially if it's any type of hard core

    i.... a....

    @ice age heat wave... I completely agree I don't listen to la dispute with many people for the same reasons

    i.... a....

    I don't know about you, but for me personally their music has helped me through the worst times of my life, and that is a very sensitive and vulnerable part of myself that I only let those extremely close to me into

    i.... a....

    Its not your music.

    i.... a....

    La dispute is art and art is meant to be shared.

    i.... a....

    I get that, I worry they wont feel it the way I feel it. Like they wont be able to relate their pain to mine. Whenever I see someone with a la dispute tattoo I dont even need to speak to them to know they feel things the same as I do and differently to everyone else.

  20. J.... R....

    i live like an hour and a half from terre haute, Indiana and when I first heard this I was like Wtf what a coincidence 😂😂

    J.... R....

    Jessica Riley that's so cooool

  21. y.... b....

    I live in Terre Haute and these lyrics are so emotional.

  22. P.... V....

    I live in Hudsonville Michigan and thought i would just search the city name on youtube and this rad ass song appears...made my day

    P.... V....

    Same, I've heard of this band, but I've never looked into them, kinda unexpected, because it's pretty small and not really significant.

    P.... V....

    Lol know where this was filmed?

    P.... V....

    This whole album is magnificent

    P.... V....

    I live there too la dispute is on of my favorite bands and when I saw this song the first time I was like oooooo awesome

  23. L.... F....

    I just starting listening to this band. The lyrics really mean a lot and are really deep... Also in the begging he kinda sounds like Morty from Rick and Morty, just saying. But overall this band is great :)

    L.... F....

    sounds like an extremely underwhelmed Morty

    L.... F....

    god damn now I cant unhear that

  24. p.... ....

    this song is only 4 minutes long? it feels so much longer.

  25. p.... a....

    Its like if At the Drive-In were calmer and their lyrics made sense with a little bit of like Cursive thrown in. I like it.

    p.... a....

    This is the best description!

  26. M.... P....

    Probably one of the most unsettling songs I've ever heard. A lyrical masterpiece, but extremely unsettling.

    M.... P....

    u make music? if u live close we can collab

    M.... P....

    Thomas Caldwell Yes I make music I live in Seattle lol.

  27. a.... ....

    This is some good shit gives me the feels hardcore.

  28. L.... K....

    that honestly made me tear up..... what a powerful and profound moment in my life. I will remember the moment I heard this song ..........forever.

  29. r.... l....

    i live in michigan; this song is emotional

  30. M.... ....

    I live in Terre Haute! Lolz

  31. A.... V....

    Knowing how their other songs usually have double meanings, I really question if this song is ONLY describing the story of the storms... "I swear I saw lightning in your eyes", just something in that line in particular is so powerful. I think that it's a metaphor to a break up, or divorce. 2:38 it switches to first person, and he's saying that the furniture got rearranged, everything changed. Is it just me? Or do you guys get that deeper shit kinda vibe?

    A.... V....

    He's talking about an unstable, or broken home. Stay calm, keep down, preoccupy yourself, pretend it doesn't happen. (There are moments of collapse). This song produces an unsettling feeling because he wants to describe the imbalance in everyday life in a home full of sudden storms

    A.... V....

    The furniture rearranging he talks about often in his songs. Could be divorce, could be mental illness, could be trying to put something back together that keeps getting torn up all the time. To make it prettier on the surface for a temporary time

    A.... V....

    eh, i think its just about a storm. the whole lightening in your eyes refers to his happiness/surprise that she picked up after calling so many times with no answer. i can kinda see the moments of collapse maybe giving away that its more than just a song about a storm but the end is all jumbled up bits which i think try to convey how things afterwards seem like a big blur. who knows though

    A.... V....

    Well, yeah, when you think about it, this whole album references itself in so many songs, this is almost foreshadowing as much as it is an individual tale.

    A.... V....

    The way I see this is that it begins as its own story, like many of the songs on the album, but as it goes along the narrator's own emotional state and thoughts start to break into the story. Hence the references to other songs and where you're getting the notions of a bad relationship. The "furniture rearranged" refers to a later song, and is part of the theme of the narrator's broken relationship or marriage. You can really see what I mean in the last few lines: "wires snap" is about the bridge collapse in 35, "thanksgiving" refers to Woman (in mirror) and others. The song collapses as the boundary between the story and the narrator's own mental preoccupations collapses: "there are moments of collapse."
    The storm could be read as a metaphor for the mental state he is in following the relationship, and the connection between that state and this particular story may be catharsis - perhaps the narrator wants to enter into someone else's suffering. We see this in a lot of La Dispute songs (King Park, 35, etc.). Anyhow, my main point is that there are layers, and these stories are brought together because of the associations of feelings or images - it's very poetic.

  32. I.... D....

    Hey, i was born and raised in Hudsonville! I never knew there was a song written about this!

    I.... D....

    *last name starts with "van"*


    yup checks out

  33. L.... ....

    The opening of this song sounds like Demetri Martin.

  34. B.... A....

    I lose my shit at 2:40 every time 

    B.... A....

    Haha, me too. I think i might be doing a vocal cover on this song even though im eleven. :D

    B.... A....

    its fucking intense 

    B.... A....

    @mrefe2003 Eleven? Damn man. Getting into great music when young.

    B.... A....

    InsidiousHate Lmao nice indulging.

  35. W.... ....

    Maybe mother oughta stop humpin the coffee maker.

  36. L.... N....

    Okay but I understand that this is probably a huge metaphor or something, but just the way it talks about the storm in general reminds me of tornadoes, which may be what they were going for, but to be quite honest this song sort of scared me. 

    L.... N....

    @TheMistya12 It's a song about a tornado outbreak in the midwest. The wife is indiana where tornadoes are touching down.In Hudsonville a strong tornado levels the town

  37. A.... R....

    Does anyone know where the video footage for these videos is from? Are these like, home movies from the band or are they from a film i'm just not making the connection to, or like what.

    A.... R....

    Auden Lewis wish I knew

    A.... R....

    I need to know :( it seems like all the videos from this album have the same people

  38. j.... ....

    Live in hudsonville

  39. L.... M....

    And her mother said “I swear I saw lightning in your eyes
    When that call got through to the other side.”

    Goosebumps every single time.

    L.... M....

    I get goosebumps from almost every line in this song, to be honest.

    L.... M....

    Best part

  40. b.... ....

    moi aussi j'aime bien At the drive in :)

  41. J.... P....

    Can anyone explain what this song is about more?  It seems like there's a lot of things going on in the lyrics.

    J.... P....

    Yeah so after I googled the song title, I found out there were a series of tornadoes that touched down in Hudsonville, Michigan during April 1956. The song is telling a story of a woman who is trying to reach her husband who is still in Hudsonville, not knowing whether or not he is still alive. She is in Indiana visiting her parents with her kids by chance (which has tornadoes going on there as well.) The setting takes place in the woman's basement trying to stay calm, alive, informed, and calling her husband. After 3 days, her call finally got through. If you want more proof, the lyric at 2:54 says "I could see lightning there and a funnel cloud."

  42. S.... c....

    Not gonna lie.. disappointed with this album. I had such high hopes.

  43. A.... ....

    Hello from Russia! I can't understand some facts in the song called Hudsonville, MI 1965. 
    What happened to the wife in it? 
    Why did she go somewhere (probably, to her husband) during the storm?

    A.... ....

    Alexander Mugaiskikh she stayed in the basement to wait out the storm.

    A.... ....

    Before the storm the wife went to her parents' in Indiana for thanksgiving. The husband was to meet them once the weekend came and he finished his work week. It was before he left to meet them that both towns had tornadoes

  44. D.... T....

    does anyone notice how perfectly well the pacing of Jordans voice matches the rhythms being created by the music, cue to cue, rhymed line by rhymed line...it blows me away and i hope im not the only one who notices

  45. m.... l....

    Its like all the fucked up shit in the world put into lyrics in the most beautifully heart breaking of ways. Losing a child, a child who was lost to cancer, a church that is abandoned and the loss of faith, falling through the ice, a storm that causes so much destrustion, losing your lover, being stabbed by your own child, having a child with schizophrenia, having an abusive spouse, a person who commits suicide. Some people might just say its morbid and depressing, but honestly a long time ago when I first started listening to La Dispute, it was after my boyfriend had passed away. I was not in a good place, and it really helped me with a lot just because of the fact that I finally knew that there was people out there who related to my pain. Even tho most people dont go through those exact tragedies, I still think its beautiful for those who can relate to the kind of pain and loss expressed in this music.

    m.... l....

    +maxie louise actually first reactions after falling through the ice is about a relationship falling apart. Pretty crazy, when i hear it and read the lyrics, because i had been there. But yea, La Dispute covers so much so well

    m.... l....

    +Ethan S.
    Actually pretty much every song on Rooms of the House is about a relationship falling apart, this one aswell. This is probably the most obvious line:
    "Couldn't keep a thing the same way when the storm blew in and the furniture rearranged."

  46. O.... L....

    this album has an strange, comfortable, lonely feeling that i just can't describe.

    O.... L....

    Homesickness.

    O.... L....

    Definitely loneliness.

  47. M.... H....

    Their lyrics are so fucking meaningful and full of emotion and that's why they're literally a beautiful band

  48. c.... ....

    TERRE HAUTE WOOOOOO

  49. D.... C....

    i'm hungarian and when i first saw the year '1956' in the title i instatly thought of the revolution in '56 Budapest. then listened to the song and it kicked me. my grandfather was kind of a policeman that time, but he lived in the country. my grandmother was home with the children during the revolution and she couldn't contact him. the 'wind' and the 'bending windows' are perfect metaphors of what happend during those few weeks. he escaped, made it home because he didn't want to kill his own compatriots. ...and after it every one carried on. after dinner do the dishes mother hums the coffemaker hisses

  50. L.... K....

    The first time I listened to this song and heard
    "There's a woman who got thrown from her car into a barbed wire fence
    She was six months pregnant"
    I think my heart broke.

    L.... K....

    +Lisa Klawitter it's chill tho cause both her and the baby lived

    L.... K....

    What about the second time?

  51. S.... V....

    this whole album is beautiful

  52. K.... K....

    Come to Indiana ASAP XD

  53. C.... ....

    Definitely buying the album

  54. E.... O....

    This album is fucking amazing and I fucking hate la dispute for making me cry 24/7
    Holy shit they shouldn't be allowed to be so perfect

  55. P.... ....

    There are bridges over rivers
    There are moments of collapse
    There are drivers with their feet on the glass
    You can kick but you can’t get out
    There is history in the rooms of the house 
    After dinner do the dishes
    Mother hums 
    The coffee maker hisses on the stove
    The steam a crescendo
    The radio emergency bulletins
    And everywhere wind
    You took the train down to Terre Haute, Indiana
    Visit family, your childhood home
    Give your mother her grandkid and father a kiss
    Put your luggage in your bedroom in the kitchen sit
    With your husband still up in Hudsonville
    Until the weekend when his shift ends at the furniture mill
    Running water for the dishes and the coffee on the stove
    Heard a warning from the corner on the radio
    And the glass starts to rattle in the window frames
    So you went underground
    Took the staircase down 
    To the cellar full of hunting equipment
    Held your baby in your arms
    Read the labels on mason jars
    Try not to think about your husband in Michigan

    Stay calm
    Keep the radio loud
    Take care
    Wind howls
    Father piles blankets in the corner by the furnace
    Mother lights candles
    It’s a miracle the baby doesn’t cry
    Back home doing yard work outside
    Husband being stubborn under dark skies
    Saw the fence by the neighbor’s shed split
    Saw the kitchen windows start to bend in
    So you went down to the back steps then to the basement
    There were bookshelf plans on the workbench 
    And a flashlight shining bright all night 
    Try not to think about your son and your wife
    And the lightning that scattered the night sky
    And the wind bursts that tore up the power lines
    And the workbench in the basement
    Where you sat and tried to wait out the night

    You called for three straight days
    Still with your family back home
    Up in Hudsonville the worst of the storms touched ground
    And the phone lines were down
    Turn the radio up
    Theres a woman who got thrown from a car
    Into a barbed wire fence 
    She was 6 months pregnant
    Both her and the baby lived
    You tried but the line or…
    I remember those nights
    I couldn’t get through to you
    When quiet storms came
    Rattled the window panes
    Couldn’t keep a thing the same way
    But the storm blew in and the furniture rearraged
    I can see lightning there and a funnel cloud
    And her mother said,
    “I swear I saw lightning in your eyes
    When that call got through 
    To the other side.”
    Stay calm
    Keep the radio loud
    Stay down
    There are bridges over rivers
    Sirens in the distant
    Wind howls
    Keep down
    Then
    After dinner do the dishes
    Mother hums
    Wires snap
    Metal gets twisted
    Theres the rattle of the window glass bending in
    Take the children down 
    Terre Haute
    Coffee
    Thanksgiving
    Stay calm
    Keep down
    At the workbench
    Stay
    And the coffe maker hisses
    Stay calm
    Keep down
    Turn the radio
    There are
    There are moments of collapse.
     

  56. K.... C....

    Gives me shivers.

  57. M.... B....

    having a spasm because this song is wonderful !!

  58. D.... D....

    This whole album gives me goosebumps.

  59. B.... C....

    Idk in case anyone cares 

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_1956_tornado_outbreak

    B.... C....

    Thanks man was wondering

  60. c.... ....

    This song mentioned Indiana............ Please come to Indiana!!

  61. K.... ....

    SEEING THEM FRIDAY AND I CAN'T WAIT

  62. d.... ....

    I love this album didn't think anything could touch wildlife but I stand corrected gonna see you fellows Saturday I'm amazed!!

  63. D.... -....

    This is amazing!!!!!!!

  64. F.... B....

    Sh.t I came after 2 seconds....

  65. j.... ....

    AMAZING