Call it prairie noir, or Canadiana desert rock: Abigail Lapell sings haunting, gorgeous modern folk songs, mapping epic natural landscapes and deeply intimate, personal territory.
“Gonna Be Leaving” echoes with the irony of someone who threatens to leave yet never goes—and the certainty that, sooner or later, every relationship will end.
“This is one of my favourite tunes on the album, and one of the most fun to play live,” says Lapell. “The song started as a guitar part that I couldn’t get out of my head, this insistent line that keeps circling back on itself, doubled by the vocals in a sing-song rhyme all about the contradictions of couplehood: the push and pull of independence versus commitment, trying to make it work even against the odds, or trying to leave and not being able to.
At the heart of these anxieties, to me, is the idea of impermanence in any relationship (one way or another, one partner will ultimately be the first to exit). I recently got engaged, so these themes have been on my mind! I love how the band builds on that simple, recurring melodic idea with a heartbeat rhythm section, tiptoeing piano, and overlapping harmonies that rise to a halting finale, rich with ambivalence.”
Gonna Be Leaving
Said it in the evening, said it in the afternoon, said I’m gonna be leaving
Gonna be leaving soon, gonna be leaving
Gonna be leaving soon, and the odds are even
You’re gonna be leaving, gonna be leaving
You’re gonna be leaving too
You’re the poison in the IV / rattlin the sabre, said it wouldn’t be,
Wouldn’t be easy / said it isn’t gonna be fair,
Are you gonna get angry? Gonna get even?
Are you gonna be leaving?
Gonna be moving on, are you gonna be, gonna be gone
[Odds are even] You’re gonna be leaving, the odds are even
Odds are even, you’re gonna be, gonna be gone
You’re gonna be moving on
And the odds are even / odds are even
You’re gonna be leaving, gonna be leaving
Gonna be leaving soon….
Said it in the evening, said it in the afternoon
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