Neighbour Song

from Goodbye Treehouse by Lou Laurence

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I want to be your neighbour.
I want to sometimes steal your Sunday newspaper –
just for the crosswords.
I want to run into you, in the hall.
I’ll say, ‘Hey, this building sucks,
when’s the landlord going to clean his shit up.’
I want to pick up your mail when you leave town.
I want to turn on your lights so it seems like you’re still around.

And I can pretend like I don’t hear it
when you and your lover get kind of funky.
And I can pretend like I don’t know what it sounds like
when you make love –
I’ll look you in the eyes, and stuff.

If you need some sugar –
I mean the baking kind –
just knock on my door, you can have mine.
And I don’t want to be the one
to smell your body decompose.
I want to be the one who calls when I hear a boom bang on the floor.
We’ll say, ‘Hi,’ in the stairs,
and we’ll put those little felt tips on the feet of all our chairs –
it’s what good neighbours do,
I think of you.

If I’m having a party,
won’t you come on by.
And if we’re getting too loud and bawdy,
don’t call the cops just steal our wine.
That’s just fine for you.
It’s what good neighbours do:
I think of you, you think of me, we think of we.

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from Goodbye Treehouse, released July 19, 2018

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Lou Laurence Montreal, Québec

Singer. Songwriter. Siren.

Lou Laurence is a soul singer hailing from the bottom of the ocean and claiming Montreal as her new territory. Lou combines soul vocals with elements of folk, blues, pop, jazz and all that is glorious in music. ... more

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