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Greenblood

from Animal Brain by The Big Payback

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I don’t know where she’s taking me.
The fog is thick on the city streets.
She took my hand, said “come and see,”
but honey please, where you taking me?
I think that somewhere we got turned around
and ended up on the bad side of town.
The wicked beast lurks underground, oh lord,
where’d we get turned around?

Chorus:
Do you feel murder in the air?
Do you hear voices that are not there?
Drink her potion, feel her bite.
Lady Greenblood’s thirsty for you tonight.

She’s been around for centuries,
the streets of London, New York, and Paris.
The green fairy brings lunacy, oh lord,
listen and take heed.
She said, “You had your wine and you had your tea,
you spiked your coffee with your dry brandy.
But just you wait for the visions you’ll see
once you’ve had just one taste of me.”

Chorus

Drifters, losers, painters, poets, don’t you know it’s with her you belong?
All you have to do is close your eyes and listen to her siren song:
“Go to sleep, go to sleep, go to sleep now my love.”

She’ll make you sad, she’ll make you mean.
Get under your skin and turn your blood green.

Lady Greenblood’s mad charade has been a plague upon us for too long.
Surely she’s to blame for this decay of people’s sense of right and wrong.

Chorus

Close your eyes and drift away, you are not there.
Drink her potion every night.
Lord knows you can’t satisfy her appetite.

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from Animal Brain, released November 18, 2016

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The Big Payback is an award winning jazz-rock band featuring the soulful vocals of Leah Isabel Tirado and a smoking horn section. Mixing “ambitious original tunes that challenge even the most talented instrumentalists” (La Crosse Tribune) with classic covers, the band’s live show never fails to get the crowd moving. ... more

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