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Lucille's Gotta Go Back Home

by Greg Fleming and The Working Poor

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"Lucille's first adventure was in Edge of the City's Recent Hire. She left Auckland in a hurry - a trail of wreckage in her wake. Then she popped up a couple of years later in Philadelphia in Lucille on the To Hell With These Streets album, but as a missing person. That song was narrated by a barman answering questions given by a private detective her father had employed.
"Last year, when I wrote this record, I started wondering what might've happened to her. She'd be in her late twenties now. Would she ever come back home? Did she get clean? Could her mother and father ever forgive her? This song is the result."

Check out Lucille - the story so far - all three Lucille songs on a playlist on my Spotify artist page
open.spotify.com/playlist/3DM2rou3FF8bP8EFROgitF?si=4ebe9874793a445b

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Lucille's Gotta Go Back Home

(words and music by Greg Fleming)

Lucille's gotta go back home.
Catch a plane in the morning.
Her mother's dying,
her father keeps calling.

She tells her boyfriend - "slow down, not so fast."
They both know, they both know
it's the last time.

Her father's standing at Mc Donald's.
She sees him first.
Eight years away and he's grey
and in the
same shirt.
Awkward hugs, she knows he's wondering -"is she clean?"
She wants to cry but here her tears,
they don't mean anything.

"You'll always be my baby."
Were the last words she said.
And the mother she blamed for everything
lay dead.
That night at a motel with an old boyfriend.
She tells him - "you better make it last, cos this won't happen again."

Lucille's gotta go back home.
Her father drives.
She gets out at the drop-off zone and
both of them cry.

And she says sorry for all the shit.
"That wasn't me."
She promises to come back soon,
but this is the last time
he'll ever see her.

Lucille's got a brand new home
and a kid of her own.
She's tired all the time.
But she's got hope.

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released August 31, 2021

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Greg Fleming and The Working Poor Auckland, New Zealand

Greg Fleming is often referred to as a pioneer of alt country in New Zealand. One of his first gigs was supporting Texan legend Townes Van Zandt, afterwards Van Zandt took him aside and told him “don’t ever stop writing” . Greg didn’t and has six critically acclaimed albums bear out Van Zandt's belief. The new album Same City continues to show Fleming operating at the peak of his powers. ... more

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