| Leave Her Alone Written sometime in late 1996 and as far as I know first performed live at SXSW in March 1997. Initially called Leave My Sister Alone it was shortened to Leave Her Alone when released on the Lovers Leap album in late 1997. It was last played live in April 1999. |
| You believe in evil as long as it's not yours
You believe that love is something you own You're a proud little man with a truth that you throw like a stone Flattery and idleness, no reaching out through the night You're like a sparrow who missed its migration home and you're hollow to the bone And I'm sure that God is on your side because it's so important for your pride Your God's little soldier making sure His thunderbolts get thrown Why don't you, why don't you leave my sister alone? You're a goddess who is bright and simple who was sweet and clean as a fresh red apple You hate their lack of gravity. you hate an innocence you just can't own And a good book that burns in your chest a mean old cancer no man burns away who instead withers on the vine who instead shouts down the phone Why, why don't you leave my sister alone? Why don't you just turn around and go back home? My sister never got credit for anything her life was just a constant second-guessing She doesn't need your holy undressing and most of all, she doesn't need your blessing and I don't want to spit in your eye and there is nothing I need to justify and no emotion I need to dignify or vilify your claims in this world I just want to pound nails in your cross I want to drive those nails home Why, why can't you leave my sister alone? Why, why can't you just leave her alone? Why don't you just turn around and go home? |