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Murder, Drugs, Mistresses

by The Leafy Greens

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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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Addled 01:51
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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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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John Locke 04:28
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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released November 9, 2016

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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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