Rod Stewart – Leave Virginia Alone lyrics

Rod Stewart – Leave Virginia Alone lyrics

(Tom Petty)

Well I've Seen her
Down the alley
And over the hill
To steel her away
She was as hot as
Georgia asphalt
When the aircraft came
To adore her brain

So leave Virginia alone
Leave Virginia alone
She's not like you
And me
She's not like you
And me
You should've seen her
Back in the city
Poetry and jewels
Broke all the rules
She was as high as
A Georgia palm tree

(1) So Leave Virginia alone
Leave Virginia alone
She's not like you
And me
She's not like you
And me

Some sunny day
When the h... Of times have
Gone farewell
You'll understand
Why it was so hard
To run away
To run away

She's a loser
She's a forgiver
She still finds good
When no one could
You want her
More than money
Cadillac can rust
Diamond and dust

[Repeat (1)]

Ah, yeah
Leave Virginia alone
Leave Virginia alone
She's not like you
And me
She's not like you
And me

Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,...

La, la, la, leave her alone

Oh, Virginia
Oh, Virginia
Leave her alone

Lyrics taken from /lyrics/r/rod_stewart/leave_virginia_alone.html

Songwriters: Tom Petty

Leave Virginia Alone lyrics © Gone Gator Music, Warner Chappell Music, Inc., Wixen Music Publishing

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Unregistered 2018-06-01 10:04:25

I think the song is about someone dealing with mental illness. We are to leave her alone because shes been abused enough. Also she is self medicating which prevents her from fitting in with normal society. She may be bipolar and suffer the associated mood swings. Making her a loser and as high as a tree.

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Unregistered 2011-11-07 02:12:39

Sorry for the double posts below. Just keep seeing errors in the posted lyrics. Also "hands" of time.
Don't know what the lyrics mean. Only wild guess I can make is perhaps they're a reference to virginia hill, girlfriend of bugsy siegel. She grew up mainly in marietta, ga, bought a house for her mother there when she had money (it's still there), & was known as a wild character during her return visits. Maybe petty, being from nearby florida, was aware of this.

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Unregistered 2012-01-07 00:40:36

I had always heard it as "cadillacs and lust, diamonds and dust... " and thought it was a reference to the fast-lane life, and poor virginia has gone off or been pushed off into a ditch alongside it. The poetry and jewels, makeup and pills etc. Suggest this too, that she was living a high-flying lifestyle that's fast and fun for a time, but without substance and unable to be sustained forever. Virginia may have forgiven those who took advantage of her in their own selfish quest for that life, which kind of redeems her even though she is still scored at the end of it all as a loser at this game.

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Unregistered 2011-11-07 00:09:20

Well, first off you should get a complete and correct set of lyrics. First off, it starts with "well they chased her down the alley... " "to steal her will" "... When the a-crowd came... " "... Georgia pine tree.. " and just after, missing in the above: "makeup and pills, overdue bills" "you wanna want her... " "cadillacs and rust, diamonds and dust... "
Sheesh, listen to it with headphones or something so you can hear.

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Unregistered 2022-12-07 04:30:37

I meant to say sensitized not sanitized. But shes more forgiving, having a much cleaner mindset than most people, so dont yreat her li,e the typical run of the mill backwards way that many view and see the world because she doesnt think and interpret in the same way the world does in a very jaded sense.

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Unregistered 2022-12-07 04:24:50

I think it means exactly what it says, she's got a different type of personality refined through all of her trials in life and sanitized in a way many people aren't, dont understand so she shes the whole world in a new and very different way. No matter how oddball it seems to the typical worldly mindsets, do not give this female any type of a hard time for Gods sake.

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