Name: I'm Not Your Lover
Duration: P00H04M09S
Description: "I really like the line about being a sign on the highway covered in rain. I'm not sure exactly what it means and yet I know exactly what it means. This song was originally more of a Randy Newman type of song, a sort of piano ballad. Then Olivier said he'd thought I should play it on the guitar. That's the version we kept." - Leif Vollebekk

I'm Not Your Lover

from New Ways by Leif Vollebekk

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"I really like the line about being a sign on the highway covered in rain. I'm not sure exactly what it means and yet I know exactly what it means. This song was originally more of a Randy Newman type of song, a sort of piano ballad. Then Olivier said he'd thought I should play it on the guitar. That's the version we kept." - Leif Vollebekk

lyrics

-- Lyrics --

Standing in line at the filling station
Love the smell of the gas just waiting
I know I shouldn’t breathe it in
But I do anyway

See the lights now that I’m getting to the city
Drifting in thrift stores I see something pretty
See a jacket I’d wear til I gave it to you
I’m not your lover anymore

Lilac and dogwood in the summer air
Kentucky grass wishing you were there
With your hand on my knee
Put your head on my shoulder where you want it to be
I’m not your lover anymore

You shake my spine until you sublimate it
Pour the wine til I can’t separate it from my brain
You’re a sign on the highway covered in rain
I’m not your lover anymore

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from New Ways, released November 1, 2019
Leif Vollebekk - guitar, bass, B3, vocals
Olivier Fairfield - drums

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Leif Vollebekk Montreal, Québec

Some artists go on feeling like secrets long after they've started being told. Leif Vollebekk is one of these treasures. Born in Ottawa in 1985, he taught himself music using instruments inherited from his grandfather: harmonica, guitar, piano, an old fiddle. Leif has release 3 albums so far : Inland, North Americana and Twin Solitude. ... more

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