I’ve often dreamt of a conversationthat just keeps coming up again and again.We’re sitting in the Baby Bar bereftat a shadowy table out past the sentences end.From until it’s no longer fun’til that’s no longer relevant.From until we’re no longer one’til the bona-fide embodiment of an endlessemergency without end.We’re an endless emergency without end We […]
Tag Archives: The Tragically Hip
Inevitability Of Death
Puffy lips glistening skinAnd everything comes rushing inWe don’t go to hellmemories of us do I get a sense of connectednessExclusive tight but nothing dangerousWe don’t go to hell memories of us doAnd if you go to hellI’ll still remember you But I thought you beat the death of inevitabilityto death just a little bitI […]
Little Bones
It gets so sticky down hereBetter butter your cue-finger upIt’s the start of another new yearBetter call the newspaper up2.50 for a hi-ball,And buck and a half for a beerHappy hour, happy hourHappy hour is here The long days of Shockley are goneSo is football Kennedy styleFamous last words taken all wrongWind up on the […]
Scared
I could make you scaredif you want me toI’m not prepared, but if I have toHe said, I can make you scared,it’s kinda what I doif you’re prepared,here’s what I propose to doYou’re in Russiaand more than a million works of artare whisked out to the woodsSo when Nazisfind the whole place darkThey’d think god’sleft […]
Last American Exit
You know the reasons I can’t concealYou know I’m leaving you obviously you know how I feelit’s not as easy as calling out your name when I’m down it’s not a matter for wrong or rightit ain’t much better that drinking and looking to fightyou know I’m tired of crawling hind my name among the […]
Evelyn
Evelyn-EvelynWhere were you last night?Evelyn-EvelynWhere were you last night? waited on your front porch till the break of daybut when the dawn broke I could no longer wait for… must have phoned a million times no answer camewhat kind of fool am I to play this game with… this has gone on beforeI can’t take […]
Losing Grip
Are you aware of what you make me feel, babyRight now I feel invisible to you, like I’m not realDidn’t you feel me lock my arms around youWhy’d you turn away?Here’s what I have to say I was left to cry there,waiting outside there grinning with a lost stareThat’s when I decided [chorus]Why should I […]
Poets
Spring starts when a heartbeat’s pounding When the birds can be heard above the reckoning carts doing some final accounting Lava flowing in Superfarmer’s direction He’s been getting reprieve from the heat in the frozen-food section Don’t tell me what the poets are doing Don’t tell me that they’re talking tough Don’t tell me that […]