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Leave me alone

by Zea

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I have been playing this song live already for a while but never recorded it before. Now seemed the perfect time.

Leave Me Alone is based on the Dutch song “Laat me alleen” by Rita Hovink, from 1977, which was based on the Italian “Pazza Idea” by Patty Pravo.

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Leave me alone
Alone with all of my grief
It's better now with no one else around
There's no one, no one, no one who can comfort me
I can see no future and no goal

Leave me alone
Alone with all of my grief
Smiling is just utter parody
And anyone who's ever felt true happiness
And lost it all will understand my hurt

The neighbors are still greeting me
Can't they see the absurdity
They must have noticed something
Are they blind?
I still see your family
The resemblance is too much for me
I can't believe there's ever, ever,
anything healed by time

Leave me alone
Alone with all of my grief
It's better now with no one else around
There's no one, no one, no one who can comfort me
I can see no future and no goal

Leave me alone
Alone with all of my grief
Smiling is just utter parody
And anyone who's ever felt true happiness
And lost it all will understand my hurt

There's people sending letters, postcards
Invitations, messages
But I can't open anything at all
I'm staring at an empty chair
The curtains closed, the flowers dead
I am frozen, numb, I wouldn't
even hear it if you called

Leave me alone
Alone with all of my grief
It's better now with no one else around
There's no one, no one, no one who can comfort me
I can see no future and no goal

Leave me alone
Alone with all of my grief
Smiling is just utter parody
And anyone who's ever felt true happiness
And lost it all will understand my hurt

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released May 1, 2020
Arnold de Boer, Rita Hovink, Gerrit den Brader, Patty Pravo, Giovanni Ullu

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Zea Amsterdam, Netherlands

Zea is Arnold de Boer: minimal, full-on, electric, acoustic, heart-felt, strange- edge.

Deploying guitar and sampler for intense and high energy songs. Urgent lyrics in English and in Frisian (his first language). Sometimes intimate, heart felt, poetic, at other times driven on roughshod beats and grimy bass lines. Joyfully obstinate, wonderfully bonkers.
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