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Sitting Sitting Sitting

from Music by the Water by Alex Rake and the Leaves

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Sitting
Sitting
Sitting on Sidon Island,
with this pencil to my tongue,
and the paper’s on the sands,
and the toxin’s in my lung...

I am watching my love dancing
cross the dreamworlds in the stars
while, clearly, through the darkness,
the noise of drunk guitars!

They’re ALL screaming Auld Lang Syne again,
ALL slaughtering the key –
and when they do ALL turn to tune,
we’re left to hear the sea –

Ah, the sea.

By where they pray to Him,
where men and angels fell,
who snapped my cock
and fucked my world
and then just wished me well

Burning
Burning
Burning on Sidon Island,
like the puke stuck in my throat;
Now may Music raise the sails
for Poetry, the boat.

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from Music by the Water, released November 6, 2015

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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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