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She's Leaving

by Rob Dougan

on She's Leaving (2023), Misc. Sessions (2016)

A colored tube map in her hands
Searching for a destination
He got new keys cut by a man
Who'd seen this kind of thing before

And she walked out through an open door (into a new-found-land)
All her friends came to lend a hand

A colored poster of Guernica
And several items of well-worn furniture
A spoon that's only known two hands
Are gonna journey to this foreign land

'Cause she's leaving
She's leaving
She's leaving
She's leaving

Red circles in the Evening Standing
Obituaries so even-handed
Tide turns and workers stranded
She's leaving

Red Sky, Shepherd's delight
A microwave and its blinking light
Telling him, he's lost the fight
Would you? Would you?

A boxed-up TV in the hall
Wondering why it all went dark
An evening dress from '92
Wonders if it's lost its spark
The coat hanger with its steely question mark

Asked if she's leaving
She's leaving
She's leaving
She's leaving

CDs of forgotten bands
An unloved copy of Tennyson
But the Lady of Shalott won't lend a hand
'Cause she's leaving

Empty packets of Marlboro Lights
Postcards of Pre-Raphaelites
But no one to lend a light
Would you? Would you?

She left the web, she left the loom
She made three paces through the room
She saw the helmet and the plume
She's leaving

And who is this, and what is here?
And in the lighted palace near
There died the sound of royal cheer
She's leaving, leaving, leaving
I can't afford the grieving
She's leaving, leaving, leaving tonight