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Demos w/ Sax

by Alex Rake and the Leaves

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I know it's hard, babe boiling in the kitchen. I know it's hard, babe digging in the sun. I know it's hard when all your friends have hidden and you're left their work while they are off to run. While they're away... You can play with my heart. It's pretty cheap, but it's a start. Kitten, tear it all apart; it's better than string. You can play with my heart. It's nothing good but it's a start. Leave it choking in the dark with everything. You got a lot and still you're bored and cranky. You pass the time just hanging up your clothes. You pass the time complaining like you're aching cuz you got a lot but you got none of those sweet things that stay... You love me now but wait until you're hungry. When I can't feed you we'll see how long it lasts. When I can't reach you we'll see who you marry. You want a future; I'm a student of the past. But let's meet today...
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Harriet 02:53
You gave your heart to an idiot who used it like a towel after swimming in pools full of lady juice while you just sat and scowled. The carpet was dry or the carpet was wet; either way, you didn't notice, Harriet. I met you alone on your battlefield's blackened, barbed plateau. You said no one talks quite like I do when I said: like smoke we flow, but soon like jelly we are bound to set jiggling under the sun, Harriet. Then like a child in the coat racks, you disappeared right as I got used to you asking me to tear down the fence or at least to give you a boost. Then you had to ask if you were pretty yet. How was I to answer, Harriet? Zeus fell down from the sky with your frown when he gave you his arms and his mouth. He gave you his heart like an idiot would as you fled suddenly to the south. Life is a joke I never did quite get and I guess you're the jester, Harriet.
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Pot of Gold 03:17
Babby, be kind. Don't torture his tied-up, kidnapped mind with answers to questions you left behind. Aren't there still so many leprechauns to find with their pot of gold? When you're all alone and the sun has set and you're getting cold Babby, be good. Nail Jesus so gently to the wood. Not many have ever understood; there's a kind of pain that we know one day could prove a pot of gold. When you're all alone and you missed your turn and you're getting old Babby, be free! Like a fish, flopping out of the sea! Like the killer in an unsolved mystery! Like us, when in our poverty we'd found a pot of gold. We were each alone and there was nothing else to hold.

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Another ep of demos — with Lucas Fultz-Zentner back on sax!

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released June 24, 2016

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Alex Rake and the Leaves Mission, British Columbia

Alex Rake is a songwriter, poet, and playwright from the Fraser Valley and the Leaves are his friends.

They yell and improvise all over troubadour songs.

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