A New Name For Everything The Weakerthans

When you can't save cash or conviction; you're broke and you're breaking - a tired shoelace or a wave. So long past, past-due. A new name for everything.

Everything Must Go The Weakerthans

The cutlery and coffee cups I stole from all-night restaurants, a sense of wonder only slightly used a year or two to haunt you in the dark.

None Of The Above The Weakerthans

This brand new strip mall chews on farmland as we fish for someone to blame. But we communicate in questions, And all our answers sound the same.

Sounds Familiar The Weakerthans

We emerged from youth all wide-eyed like the rest.

This Is A Fire Door Never Leave Open The Weakerthans

Headlights race towards the corner of the dining room. Half illuminate a face before they disappear. You breathe in forty years of failing to describe a feeling.

Fallow The Weakerthans

Wait until the day says it's closing, and public is put away. Write by the light of a pay phone your list of "I meant to say". Like "Winter comes too soon", or "Radiators hum out of tune".

Manifest The Weakerthans

> I want to call a request through heating vents, And hear them answered with a whispered no, To crack the code of muscles slack and tense, Let every second step in boots on snow, Complete you name

Uncorrected Proofs The Weakerthans

The mirrors and the unacknowledged nods. Dial tones and license plates. The words you didn't choose. Everything the day's too small to hold spills on to the dusk, and shorts the evening's fuse.

Reconstruction Site The Weakerthans

Well I'm lost, I'm afraid, Rope tied down to a leaky boat, To the roof of a car on a road in the dark and it's snowing.

Left And Leaving The Weakerthans

The sidewalks are watching me think about you, sparkled with broken glass. I'm back with scars to show. Back with the streets I know. Will never take me anywhere but here.

Exiles Among You The Weakerthans

Her body is a difficult sister, and she loves her, and hides her somewhere in herself safe from harm. She's barely coasting into a paycheque, stuck on empty.

My Favourite Chords The Weakerthans

They're building a new hotel. The Mayor's out killing kids to keep taxes down, and me and my anger sit folding a paper bird, letting the curtains turn to beating wind.

Greatest Hits Collection The Weakerthans

Knock so I'll know you're still there, half listening, interpreting the air. Full of failing foreign tongue, my dialect of stammer come undone.

Elegy For Elsabet The Weakerthans

So the fields are stubble, the garden is done where the scary scarecrow stands and sees her holding up horizons with her hands. She's so tired of reading Daddy's lips - -that essay on a frown.

Diagnosis The Weakerthans

I have a headache. I have a sore back. I have a letter I can't send. I have desire, it falters and falls down, it calls you up drunk at three or four a.m. to wonder when...wonderful.

The Prescience Of Dawn The Weakerthans

the sirens woke me up again i know they're coming for me someday just a matter of when count to 25 and yawn touch the clock and turn my back against the dawn and hope for that one dream of hardware stores

Illustrated Bible Stories For Children The Weakerthans

It's easy to sigh; to sprinkle a handful of plausible lies. Our buildings will rise, poke out our own eyes. Publicly smile and privately frown. A weeping reprise.

Psalm For The Elks Lodge Last Call The Weakerthans

Let the waitress put the chairs up, let the glasses that you broke, form a picture of our leader with a halo made of smoke. Let the golden oldies station crackle and come through.

Wellington's Wednesdays The Weakerthans

The night's a spill, a permanent stain; the city soaks in silence, salt and dirty snow. A blue glow from the tv again, the cutains never open, faces never show.

History To The Defeated The Weakerthans

There's blood in the sink, and he's plunging his wrists in. A hangover halo is washing away. Mechanic-school dropout stares into the mirror, stands up in his derelict daydreams.

Letter Of Resignation The Weakerthans

Takes a dried up ball-point, lemon juice and water, keeps a diary invisibly, In the kitchen corner of a basement bachelor suite there's a certain search for certainty, you know we'll never see her hands

Anchorless The Weakerthans

They called here to tell me that your're finally dying, through a veil of childish cries. Southern Manitoba prairie's pulling at the pant leg of your bad disguise. So why were you so anchorless?

Benediction The Weakerthans

So you don't get to be a saint Martyrs never last this long Guess I'll never be the one To defeat desire in song Here's a marker Here's my naked skin Our 'exhibit A' Put a small x where I lost my way

The Last Last One The Weakerthans

Here's no exception then, one more for me to send. And nothing happens in the end. I'm thinking of you less, more concerned... and more is less, I guess it doesn't matter now.

Time's Arrow The Weakerthans

> So you watch the sunrise sinking And she's talking in her sleep A dream of how alone she was Tomorrow when you keep All those promises to someone In a mirror you will find At your parents' house

Pamphleteer The Weakerthans

I clutch my stack of paper, press one to a chest, then watch it swoop and stutter to the ground. I'm weary with right-angles, abbreviated daylight, and waiting for a winter to be done.

Aside The Weakerthans

Measure me in metered lines, in one decisive stare, the time it takes to get from here to there. My ribs that show through t-shirts and these shoes I got for free; I'm unconsoled, I'm lonely.

Leash The Weakerthans

Sitting in silence and staring at ceilings or peeling the paint off of things to confide. Teach me to wiggle my ears like that, Show me the scar that you got when you fell off your bike.

(Hospital Vespers) The Weakerthans

Doctors play your dosage like a card trick Scrabbled down the hallways yelling "Yatzee" I brought books on Harper in the Arctic Something called "The Politics of Lonely" A toothbrush and Quick Pick with

The Reasons The Weakerthans

thing, But you never seem to mind, And you tell me to fuck off, When I need somebody to, How you make me laugh so hard, How whole years refuse to stay, Where we told them to bad dog, Locked up blindly in a

One Great City! The Weakerthans

> late afternoon another day is nearly done a darker grey is breaking through a lighter one a thousand sharpened elbows in the underground that hollow hurried sound of feet on polished floor and in

Without Mythologies The Weakerthans

A soft breeze with the slippery concrete black and full of muddy slush, contrasting with the hoarfrost, clean and hung on a tunnel of silent shivering trees (the ones you said you'd like to be), and the

Confessions Of A Futon-Revolutionist The Weakerthans

Held like water in you shaking hands are all the small defeats a day demands. 10-6 or 9-5 trying, dying to survive. Never knowing what survival means. Leave the apartment to buy alcohol.

Watermark The Weakerthans

We sit and watch the wall you painted purple. Speech will spill on space. Our little cups of grace.

Plea From A Cat Named Virtute The Weakerthans

I don't know who you're talking to, I made a search through every room, but all I found was dust that moved in shadows of the afternoon And listen, about those bitter songs you sing; they're not helping

Everything Is New Slow Club

Sat at the lights while they change, on the dashboard I'm shaking I thought of you, and the boy with his head on the table Everything is new, everything is new And I know my digging And I know my singing

Name Nichole Nordeman

You woke up one day in a bad way, With a dark heart in a small cave, And decided to hide For the long bitter night.

Everything I Do Rebecca St. James

If it weren't for You Lord, I don't know where I'd be I could fill the hours, but never fill the need I would still be searching looking for the truth But I found a new life, that only comes from You Everything

Slips And Tangles The Weakerthans

we're rolling neon lights and slinking purple skies squeeze out soft regrets from all our lives as i greet another door that opens in to that place that we repeatedly begin i'm tangled up in tries ...

Making Me New Royal Tailor

me Now You won't let go of me I've got a feeling that I can't explain Like I'm crawling out of my skin Dead till the moment that You said my name Now my heart is beating again You're making me

Everything I Wanted Jonatha Brooke

So this is how it feels to be happy, to find real true love To be wanted, to be real We throw away the rest of the past, every small broken thing We find new things that will last And everything's the

Y2K Empty Tremor

Well you know, they say a new era's coming a new world will come with so many mornings strange shades are blowin'up and a cold breeze is moving my hair that's the dawn of a brand new day when everything

Your Name 모노크롬

From the moment I met you, My life changed. My heart turned towards a new world. Your shining eyes Made blossom within me Everything in this world became beautiful. Your name Is engraved in my heart.

Your Name Forest Music

From the moment I met you, My life changed. My heart turned towards a new world. Your shining eyes Made blossom within me Everything in this world became beautiful. Your name Is engraved in my heart.

Walkway Blues (Feat. Jordan Lawlor) M83

Taking a foreign flight Looking for signs of life When you flashed upon my screen Testing the atmosphere Your silhouette appears And I know I\'m not alone But empty haze Is all that remains I

New Amsterdam Pink Martini

New Amsterdam was her name Before she was New York New Amsterdam is a dame The heart and soul of big apple city No matter what name she goes under I dig her deeply and no wonder For she's been lovely

I'll Come Running Back To You Sam Cooke

Folks said that you found someone new To do the thing I used to do for you Just call my name I'm not ashamed I'll come running back to you Can't sleep goodnight I can't eat a bite When you were mine

The Future Needs Your Name Empty Tremor

An higher price a new dimension to realize today everything cries the want of a proper light today spinning 'round words we are losing faith losing days hundreds of hours of pure life are spent crowning

For Your Name Hillsong Worship

[Verse 1:] We've got a new life In the light of Your love Called by name To the Saviour of all We've got a new song Generations will sing [Verse 2:] We've got a new hope All because of the cross Saved

THE CALLING Michael Kiske

Well better it is when you can hold on to it When you keep the grip to push it higher The further you get the more you use it up You got to look for news and you better do!