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Wild Woodbine

from Your Mother Was A Peacock by OXLIP

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While at theatre school in Moscow I played the character Masha from Chekhov's play The Three Sisters. I knew her story inside out and although she is not a victim, she is dealing with an awful set of circumstances, which drives her to have an affair. The song is her big confession, telling her aging husband what has happened. He sits at the kitchen table slumped over a burning cigarette. Smoke fills the room like a giant wall between them. There is no resolution or 'happy ending' in the song because there isn't one in the play unfortunately..

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Wild Woodbine

Smoke filled up the window, the night I did confess
You sat at the table, smoking cigarettes.
I knew that it was over, you were no longer mine
confessions while you smoked another dozen wild woodbine

We met when I was 18, when I was just a girl
you had such charisma, and knowledge of this world.
You wore such dapper outfits, held in high esteem
I was intoxicated by your love for me

Oh Lord, I love not the man that I am with, but the one that I am not

But now your looks have faded and your words they are so few
You've become jaded and Ive lost respect for you
It all happened so quickly, my lonely heart grew weak
my eyes went wandering and another did I seek

At first it was so fickle we shared some wine a bread
it makes me sick to say it but I laid down in his bed

Oh Lord I Iove not the man that I am with, but the one that I am not.

Forgive me for my secrets I can no longer keep
I wish that I could comfort all the pain that I've caused thee.
You'll sit there at the table and you can ask me "why?"
you're better off to smoke another dozen wild woodbine

Oh Lord I love no the man that I am with, but the one that I am not.

credits

from Your Mother Was A Peacock, released April 23, 2021
written by Jayne Trimble (OXLIP)
produced by Jayne Trimble (OXLIP)
co-produced by Erik Nielsen
engineered by Erik Nielsen
Mixed by Darryl Neudorf, Erik Nielsen
Mastered by Andrew Spindor
Vocals, guitar, banjo, piano: Jayne Trimble
Drums: Leon Power
Bass: Erik Nielsen
Lead Guitar, pedal steel: Matt Kelly
Viola: Thomas Beckman
Violin: Kendel Carson
Recorded at Afterlife Studios, Vancouver BC
Special thanks to Creative BC for their support

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Oxlip Vancouver, British Columbia

EMERGING ARTIST OF THE YEAR nominee by the 2022 Canadian Folk Music Awards for her recent work, 'Your Mother Was A Peacock',

"Sometimes a completely beautiful song is the most powerful way to say Fuck You.” says OXLIP who hails from Northern Ireland but currently lives in Vancouver, BC. ... more

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