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Estuary, Mortuary

from Murder, Drugs, Mistresses by The Leafy Greens

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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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from Murder, Drugs, Mistresses, 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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