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The bar was made
for men who spent
their Friday nights with whiskey
My hips persuaded
them to spend
their twenty dollar bills on me
They were crass
and they were loud
but I’d grown up with men that way
It’s the dull ones who
seemed all the same
that I really couldn’t take
I saw him first
through dim bar lights
and assorted shots of liquor
He had cufflinks
and a fatal grin
that made time and hearts beat quicker
We were married
one month later
on an island in the sea.
I knew that he
was trouble but
it was trouble that I needed
Still murder, drugs,
and mistresses
were not what I foresaw
I wanted out
but my cartel man
moved too quick for the law.
So I called in
a detective
who didn’t work by the book
With his suspect means
and his cunning sense
a month was all it took
For my hired man
to execute his plan
and ensure my husband’s death
I’ve a lonely bed
but I don’t regret
the haste of his last breath
Now my bird dog rents
the upper flat
and solves his cases right above me
with his special friend
I visit them
when there’s nothing good on TV
Bullets in the wall
bodies in the hall
and papers full of grass
Everyone knows
but even so
the coppers never dare to ask
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2. |
Addled
01:51
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Lyrics & Chords
(Verse 1-3)
F
I had a problem
Bb
a three-patch problem
F Bb
a three days dead kind of problem
Sword at my neck
in over my head
I needed the tallest man I knew
I don’t know how
or why he came
I think he couldn’t resist the game
(Chorus)
C Bb F
I was saved by Sherlock Holmes
Still never ate with Sherlock Holmes
He rose to every dare but mine
I couldn’t addle his dauntless mind
I never ate with Sherlock Holmes
But I was saved by Sherlock Holmes
(Verse 4-6)
I like your hat
John likes you more
I’m bored like you, let’s have dinner
I’m not a woman
I’m not hungry
I’m not dead so let’s have dinner
I wanted to have him
the way he had me
somewhat awed and off my feet
(Chorus)
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3. |
Estuary, Mortuary
02:50
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In the cold, brackish water
where plants and fauna teem,
lives a long-haired woman
more critical than she seems.
In the drowned river valley
she stands to defy the tide,
she waits at the rainbow’s end
before the deep blue gaping wide.
Em
She knows how salt and water
Bm
can lift a body high;
D
she knows how cold or fluid
Em
can keep the dead skin bright.
Em Bm
Estuary, mortuary,
D
she was young when
she learned to carry
Em Bm
people who were older
Em
or wiser than her.
Em Bm
She’s of the rare
C
who choose to live
in a lonely conduit
Bm D
Few can bear the
Em Bm
estuary, mortuary.
Where the river meets the sea,
there the living meet the dead,
she can drown you in the ocean
and pull you out again.
She can wake a sleeper
from a floating daze,
or bring someone back from death
with three slaps across the face.
None can go but by her
as the clever understand;
they cannot parry death except
as they lay in her kind hands.
Estuary, mortuary,
she was young when
she learned to carry
people who were older
or wiser than her.
She’s one of the rare
who choose to live
in a lonely conduit
Few can bear the
estuary, mortuary.
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4. |
John Locke
04:28
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C Am F G
Usually people are lying when they say
that they looked at someone and knew right away.
But when I measured you, hair to gait
I saw your past and guessed our fate.
You moved in and the flat felt so new
that even going out I wanted to take you.
Whenever you left alone, I paced or sulked,
layered nicotine patches or shot at the wall.
I know I was gone too long, two years,
but I saw you at night in a map of the stars
and remembered running, holding your hand.
Still I had to stay to the course of my plan.
Jim said “I’ll burn the heart out of you.”
Later Charles tried to char you too.
There is no danger like keeping friends,
so I have to keep saving you from myself.
Am
I won’t say I love you
F
I’ve long left too many clues
C
Remember all my words,
G
think of what you’ve seen me do.
Am
Pay attention to your senses,
F C
Love is easy to deduce.
C Am F G
I never foresaw the coming of Mary,
your love for her, or the weight she would carry.
I got past the ensuing brown study
by learning to make napkin origami,
and PLAYing a waltz on your wedding night.
I wanted your happiness more than mine.
When you settled with her, I moved your chair,
would suffer no one else sitting there.
Debatably, Mary spared my life for you,
though twice I almost gave my life for you.
Just as you’re mine, she is your weakness.
We all fell for the one who loves us less.
Now we’re standing by the plane, waiting to go.
There’s nothing to say that we don’t already know.
C Am
It’s in steady hands, the brightness of eyes.
F G C Am
I’ll speak no words if I can watch you smile
F G
for a little while
Chorus
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They thought: "We both play the same instruments. Let's start a band." So Emily and Jade became The Leafy Greens, a ukulele-bearing, folk-rock duo based in St. Catharines. Stay tuned; we are currently working on new songs for you!
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