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This package is a killer deal! Includes four of Leigh's CDs: you get one copy each of “Where the Knives Meet Between the Rows”, “Red Tornado”, “Peep”, and “Twister”.
Also includes bonus “Red Tornado” one-inch pin, suitable for framing or for adding flair to your jean jacket.
Includes unlimited streaming of Where The Knives Meet Between The Rows
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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* NOTE * This is a new recording of this song, different from the one that was released on the "Dearly Departed" Lone Fir Cemetery compilation. That earlier version is available here: music.leighmarble.com/track/inebriate-waltz
lyrics
There’s no way in hell I’m gonna go out like that
I’m spilling over with poems, from my boots up through my hat
I wrote epics and sonnets and songs , but dammit -
All they remember is “Beautiful Willamette”
Too many bad poets, peddling nonsense and fluff
I think that the public has put up with enough
To you hacks and pretenders, I bid au revoir
I’d rather keep my head down at St. George’s bar
And inebriate
I rub my tears into a stubbled chin
As I look in and wince, as I lean out and grin
Over the river, do I turn tail and flee?
Or drop myself into that dark, weird sea?
And inebriate
That great big river, that great big fall
I coulda took the plunge to end it all
But those little liquor bottles, that sidewalk slip
It was the river that killed me, sip by sip
An inebriate
I gave it my life, it gave me my name
I guess even a footnote is a measure of fame
But every poem I wrote that you never read
I’ll recite to you nightly when you’re also dead