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Leaving Feels Like Flying

from When We Were Animals by Mishka Shubaly

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Some songs you labor over for years. Other songs, you wake up and grab your guitar and just play through 'em once and they're done. This song actually woke me up in the middle of the night. I got the first and second parts right away and then just couldn't finish it, partly because I had no idea how to arrange it for the record. I didn't hear a chorus. Then I tracked it on my phone-- quietly, strumming hard on an unplugged electric hollowbody-- while Mattie was sleeping on my leg and I was like "man... that's it." A couple more tweaks to the words and then I tracked it in my bathroom with my new Atkin acoustic and my phone. My favorite part is when I sing too hard and the limiter kicks in and the guitar almost drops out completely. Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.

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One more
One more
One more kick in the balls
New York, did you have to?
I guess you had to see me crawl

Goodbye to my old life
Goodbye to the low life
My God, it seems so sad and strange
to watch you circle down the drain

Goodbye to my old love
I’m so glad I got a taste of
your husband’s wife before he did
and hurt you so, you can’t forgive me

Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye

Goodbye to my old friends
We’ll meet again in the end
But if you left those debts overdue
You better hope I don’t see you
Goodbye I say, so long, farewell
We’ll meet again down the road
It’s not the end, I’m being dramatic
Still I feel my lungs are collapsing

Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye

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from When We Were Animals, released May 1, 2018

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Mishka Shubaly Phoenix, Arizona

Shipwreck survivor, Jeopardy clue, bestselling writer, road dog on house arrest.

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