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Virginia

from Citizen Alien by Leaf Rapids

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She packs my lunches in liquor store bags
Spends my Unicef money on marlboro lights
Plays the golden oldies on an ancient transistor
And waltzes me around the kitchen at night

Already gone when I wake in the morning
Job number one at the first break of day
A note on the fridge says i love you, Virginia
Here's 2 bucks for milk I'll see you at eight

And when the wind bends the boulevard trees
Thinks it can break them but they're rooted deep
Always reminds me of what you can take
And dancing around while the radio plays

Sometimes I find her asleep like a baby
Curled up on the bathroom linoleum floor
But only on nights when the memories get nasty
You offer one drink but they always want more

She says forlornly one day I will leave her
Stretch out my wings for faraway lands
I can't help laughing cause both of us know I'll
Be pushed from the nest by her own hands

And when the rain comes crashing right in
Thinks it can drown us but somehow we swim
Always reminds me of what you can take
And dancing around while the radio plays

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from Citizen Alien, released May 3, 2019
featuring Alexa Dirks aka Begonia on background vocals,
Bill Western on pedal steel and Rusty Matyas on piano and backing vocals

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Leaf Rapids Winnipeg, Manitoba

Leaf Rapids is a 4 piece Winnipeg band creating a Canadiana soundscape. Words thrown around are cinematic, Manitoba Motown, Spacey spaghetti-western, liquid silver.

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