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To Darcy from Courtney

from Music by the Water by Alex Rake and the Leaves

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Now that the punch has been spiked, the party can start. Now that the country’s been built, we can tear it apart. My girl wants a man? Yeah, I’m told. Outside I ran, into the cold; in the hail I did stand til I grew old. Now take these frozen hands – they’re yours to hold.

I heard that you love someone else. Don’t tell me it’s true, when I read every book on your shelf – when I read them to you! But I guess you’re not a fan of poetry when it’s stumbling and stammering out of me, when you’ve tumbled from your mountains to the sea, when someone’s shoveling sand all over thee.

Now that this place has been paved, it’s much safer to roam. Now that this place has been saved, Christ, why don’t you go home? I can’t forgive a child of his sins. He hides out in the wild, darkly grins. Destroy, defile where we’ve been – yet so tender and so mild the Earth still spins.

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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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