The seventh song off Ball Park Music’s fourth album, Every Night the Same Dream, is a slower, folkier song that features a flute track.
[Verse 1]
Leef, I told you all my secrets
Leef, until I first did cry
Deep within abyss of birth rates
Sprawling from a dead bird's eye
[Chorus 1]
Save me from tipping
Off the corner, cut my spine
And blow through recorders
Seven years of caked-up eyes
Eyes learn to dance
Cryptic cheaters on the phone
Or train me, a pansy
And charm the insects and make you known
[Verse 2]
Flee into the circus lately
Aren't you going to pry me with your red-hot mic?
Level-level eight, I died and held a service
Played a little song beneath a tambourine
[Chorus 2]
Save me from ancient
Cells are bulging through my skin
Lanterns burn the fat
It smells as if I'm caving in
From up where we stood
On Wellington with hands of snow
I sink through your bright scars
Your throat is holding hands with mine
[Post-Chorus]
And time timbers over
It cracks with its ferocious whine
[Outro]
I'll love you forever
I'll love you forever
I'll love you forever
I'll love you forever
Leef was written by Samuel Cromack.
Leef was produced by Matt Redlich.
Ball Park Music released Leef on Fri Aug 19 2016.
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