Well I think that there’s a problem hereher voice just don’t sound rightleft a message on the answering machinesaid, "I’m back in town tonight"I feel I’ve stepped out of the wildernessall squint-eyed and confusedbut even babies raised by wolvesthey know exactly when they’ve been used see when it starts to fall apartit really falls apartlike […]
Tag Archives: The Tragically Hip
Locked In The Trunk Of A Car
They don’t know how old I am, they found armour in my bellyFrom the sixteenth centuryConquistador, I thinkThey don’t know how old I am, they found armour in my bellyFashioned out of machine revving tensionLashing out at machine revving tensionRushing by the machine revving tensionMorning broke out the backside of a truck-stopthe end of a […]
So Hard Done By
interesting and sophisticatedrefusing to be celebratedit’s a monumental big screen kissit’s so deep it’s meaninglessone day you’ll just up and quitand that’ll be itjust then the stripper stopped in a coughing fitshe said sorry I can’t go on with this yeah that’s awful closebut that’s not whyI’m so hard done by it was true cinema […]
Sherpa
Me and the vivid girlin our hammock to the starsstaring into the fire before TV,the remote-control’s on Mars In the dope of the pigment,in the poetic state of mindin a flood of countrywe lay down to kill some time And we spoke languidlyof the Northern Beeand collecting dewdrops for teaunderneath the cannonball tree We were […]
Pigeon Camera
It was handsome at the auction,oh but when we got it home,it grew into something we couldno longer containWhere’s our pigeon camera,by now he could be anywhereand after all that training.And after all that training,something we could no longer contain.It’s boring, I’m embarrassed,I don’t endorse that, I didn’t want this This house it has it […]
Impossibilium
I love you even when I don’t even know I’m doing itand dismiss it out of hand cause I don’t even know I’m doing itbut your finger starts to wiggle and landscapes emergeCan you spare some change dear, we’ve only got three hundred feet to go Roses are worth more dried than alivesuch a thing […]
I'll Believe In You
well its 7:00 AM and she woke by the radioyeah she rolled on over said, "where did my man go?"she’s been a gunslinger’s wife all her lifenow she fights when she’s ablefor the sake of the kids when the knife’s at their necks in the cradleshe screams I’ll believe in you or I’ll be leaving […]
Courage (For Hugh MacLennan)
Watch the band through a bunch of dancersQuickly, follow the unknown with something more familiar.Quickly something familiarCourage, my word it didn’t come it doesn’t matter Sleepwalk, so fast asleep in a motelthat has the lay of home and piss on all of yourbackground and piss on all your surroundingsCourage, my word, it didn’t come, it […]