Michelle Mangione Performance, "Dump Truck", Michelle Mangione and her band, June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives, 2013/05/13

[caption: Michelle Mangione & her band @ the Mazer]

Mangione: A-one, two–

[music plays]

Mangione: Well yes it’s true I asked you to come over for a beer.
But you were drunk and thought I said come over for a year.
Well, I guess that was the day you checked your baggage at my door.
Now you’re gone but all your shit’s still here.
Well, maybe I was crazy thinking I could make it work.
Then I caught you cheating and I felt like such a jerk.
But nothing could prepare me for the mess you left behind.
And I just wanna make it disappear.

Makes me wanna take a dump truck.
Drive it to your house and back it up, but I’m afraid that I might get stuck.
That would just be my dumb luck.
Because you hit me like a freight train.
You dropped it all on me that day, but I don’t wanna care no more


Now you would never fess up to the damage that was done.
While I cleaned the mess up you were out there having fun.
But I got your Dear John message it was cruel and insincere
Made me want to fire up the John Deere.


Makes me wanna take a dump truck drive it to your house and back it up.
I’m afraid that I might get stuck.
That would just be my dumb luck.
Because you hit me like a freight train.
You dropped it all on me that day, but I don’t wanna care no more. No!

[interlude]

I’m gonna take that timber radio and shove it in reverse.
Because the way you flip your hair and tell me you don’t care.
The way you breathe the air.


Makes me wanna take a dump truck.
Drive it to your house and back it up.
I’m afraid that I might get stuck.
But that would just be my dumb luck.
Because you hit me like a freight train.
You dropped a load on me that day.
But I don’t wanna care, no I don’t want to care no more.

[applause]

Ah, that’s a resentment song for you, right?

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Michelle Mangione and her band rocks it for Mazer at their annual fundraiser December 15, 2012. Angela Riggio on keyboard and Steve Sost on guitar.

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Interviewee: Michelle Mangione
Interviewer: None
Transcriber: Annie C.
Transcriber: Dave P.
Formatter: Serena R.
Recording Date: December 15, 2012
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Location: Plummer Park in West Hollywood, California
Interview Length: 00:03:50