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Some Nights

by The Leafy Greens

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(Verse 1)

C G
Some nights you spit venom
Am F
at the television screen
staring with lidless eyes
your skin glowing green
Some nights you spit at me
say I’m a monster in disguise
there is a scent on me
you can recognize
You say I’m a monster
I say it isn’t so
But you would know
Father you would know

(Chorus)

F Am G
You’re a snake in the carpet
C F
and I’m leaving again
I can’t prevent the past
but I can sometimes forget
You are in my blood but I
can reshape the rest

(Verse 2)
I water the barley
with a fieldful of tears
The crop has grown lush
and green for twelve whole years
I’ve said my goodnights
to the motherly moon
I’ve fed all my blood
to the forest blooms

(Chorus)

There are snakes in the grass
but better there than home
And better them than you
the snakes leave me alone
I can decide how I
will reset my bones

(Verse 3)
Though I love the forest
the wilds can’t keep me
They are perilous as home
with nowhere to sleep
The wolves are more familiar
than father is to me
But morning brings me home
harrowingly hungry

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released December 30, 2014

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The Leafy Greens Ontario

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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