Lemme tell you how it all went down
How I came to livin’ alone
I was married for a cup of coffee
full of Chinese made fentanyl

Jenny took a job down on pender and main
near the concrete camping ground
hit some black ice and took a bad fall
tore up her ACL

she was booked to go under the knife
sometime in late july
Christmas still a month away
the pain was already in hi-fi

her UI lasted til the end of May
her medicine all ran out
and she started rubbing elbows
with the Carnegie centre crowd

she left me right before father's day
with a biker named little Paul
Their only business avoiding
The agitation of withdrawal

Now I spend my nights in the Keefer bar
the waitress leaves me alone
With a bottle of Hendricks gin
and the notion of moving back home

Chorus
I wanna get out of this city
On the sea to sky in early June
I’m reminded her love was so skinny
When the shadows come out at night
Under the strawberry moon
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We’d been strangers ten months or more
she moved down to Hong Kong
Closer to all her sources
And the weather was always warm

she fell in with the fourteen K
Keeping all their money clean
Flying back and forth to the US
Her suitcase was full of their dreams

She got pinched down at LAX
The law and its long arm
The feds figured out her ISP
They had immunity to her charms

The book was thrown, twenty long years
she wasn’t gonna take that fall
blew a guard for a bottle of pills
Promised him they’d split the haul

Never trust a junkie now
No matter what they say
she downed that bottle in one night
Her life a debt was now repaid
Chorus
I don’t need any pity
I’m on the sea to sky in early June
I’m reminded our love was so skinny
When the shadows come out at night
Of a strawberry moon
bridge
I know she can’t cry for me
Or listen to my song
I can only fool myself
Believing I’m the one she longed for
chorus
I’d blink my eyes and it’d break my heart
Cause I didn’t wanna miss a thing
Whatever happened to that girl
Made me give her mammas wedding ring

I think about her from time to time
She might have made parole
But I guess once you hit that jackpot
Even the highest highs seem low