Name: Flat Alexa
Duration: P00H03M44S
Description: This is based on a true story about when Alexa mailed herself around the world. Why more people don't do this is beyond us.

Flat Alexa

from Whiz Bang by Whiz Bang

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This is based on a true story about when Alexa mailed herself around the world. Why more people don't do this is beyond us.

lyrics

Stanley had a good idea for getting' 'round the world
To see his friends and distant shores; any place he'd like to go
For the price of postage airmail or a flat-rate envelope
And the negative social implications of having only two dimensions
Stanley mailed himself to all the places in his dreams.
And one day Grandpa opened up the mailbox
And laughed out loud for joy at what he'd found
'Cause folded up with love inside of a business envelope
Was his darling sweet Alexa
The one who called him Grandpa
And just like Stanley she'd mailed herself to him

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Flat Alexa
Oh the places that you'll see
Who knows where you'll be before you're done
And neither snow nor rain nor dark of night will slow you down, you know
You learn by going where you go
I know you'll stay the path although
The going sometimes might be slow
And though
The winds of chance may blow you far away
Godspeed, Alexa.

Hey, what's it like to see the world, to be a postal pioneer
To sail to new horizons in a paper sailing ship
To meet a million people
To be stamped "Par Avion"
To be photographed and talked about all for forty-seven cents a shot
To live the big adventure the rest of us have only dreamed
Yeah, Jason and his Argonauts shoulda taken a tip from you
And Sinbad and Ulysses woulda had a better time
iIf they'd only thought to lick a stamp and send themselves away
They wouldn't have to use their swords the could've made it home ok
And life for them woulda been just that much sweeter.

CHORUS

credits

from Whiz Bang, released August 1, 2017
Violet - Drums
Alexa - Lead guitar
Tommi - Bass
Lanegan - vocals
Nikka - Rhythm guitar

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Whiz Bang

We're like a big, loud, friendly, edgy, tenderly-thoughtful in-your-face rock band for people who like to head bang with their kids and their grandmothers.