Diagnosis The Weakerthans

All the cheap tricks I tried too hard not to pull. Pulled along or pulled apart. The diagnosis of a foreign frame of heart.

The Reasons The Weakerthans

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 word, Or a misplaced souvenir, How the

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.

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.

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

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.

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

A New Name For Everything The Weakerthans

When the bus shelter windows and napkin-dispensers surprise with distorted reflections, it's never the someone you're hoping to recognize.

Plea From A Cat Named Virtute The Weakerthans

So we should open up the house, invite the Tabby two doors down. You could ask your sister if, she doesn't bring her basset hound.

(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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

None Of The Above The Weakerthans

But we communicate in questions, And all our answers sound the same. Under sputtering flourescents, After re-fills are re-filled. Negotiations at a stand-still, Spoon and rolling saucer stilled.

Watermark The Weakerthans

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

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

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.

My Favourite Chords The Weakerthans

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. Wish I had a socket-set to dismantle this morning.

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

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

Illustrated Bible Stories For Children The Weakerthans

So turn off the sky. Head in my hands. Night keep me warm. White window-sill. Blinded by heart. Cut my hair short. "Eyeless in Gaza with the slaves at the mill."

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

The Last Last One The Weakerthans

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. Maybe we'll never go insane.

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.

Sounds Familiar The Weakerthans

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

Anchorless The Weakerthans

Southern Manitoba prairie's pulling at the pant leg of your bad disguise. So why were you so anchorless? Shoebox full of photos; found a grainy mirror. Sunken cheeks and slender hands.

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".

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.

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.

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.

Exiles Among You The Weakerthans

Her blue eyes frozen green in the low-lit ATM. I need a way to measure the distance. I need a way to say why, out of breath or out of key, her voice resonated in me.

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 ...

The News For Andy (Interlude) Iggy Pop

If your psychologist or a therapist think that you need medication That is a great reason to come to Elevate Psychiatry We will work with the referral source to come to a consensus diagnosis And a treatment

Sudden Life Rise Against

Floating in the clouds, giving up the fight A voice is calling out, I'm walking into the light We used to race a thousand miles a day so fast Feet they barely even touched the ground We used to fly to

She Mine Velvet Revolver

Took your machine that kept me afloat Now you\'re back it\'s Tuesday I call it love insanity I call it my reality She mine Mine all mine She mine Mine all mine Cool kids keep movin\' as the

Victim Front Line Assembly

"Would you like to know what the diagnosis was?" "Some kind of electrical discharge." . . points Now the anguish Animate your conscience Know, know their downfall.

NEVER!LAND Diary Of Dreams

Wildest creatures sliver dreams Which phantasy gave birth to once A fairy-tale to make me shiver A unicorn at rainbow's end To wear the willow for mankind Embodied in these eyes of glass This

Throat Cancer Beans On Toast

to myself if i had throat cancer its the smoking, drinking, shouting, yelling snorting gear and talking all has an effect on the way that i sound and the voice that you are hearing the doctor took an

HOPELESS Ringo Starr

WHEN I WOKE UP THIS MORNING, MUCH TO MY SURPRISE, THE SUN WAS GOING DOWN AND I WAS STILL ALIVE.

Manchild Neneh Cherry

Is it the pain of the drinking Or the Sunday sinking feeling The car never seems to work When it's late your girlfriend's on a date And the hero with her in your dream In your sleep it seemed like

Time Heals Todd Rundgren

If you're bleeding, Then everyone can see you're bleeding They can call for the doctor, Who'll provide what the diagnosis says you're needing Then he'll take away your pain But if your heart, Your heart

Blind To The World Benighted

Doctor, I've read your last diagnosis About my pathology, this chimera which obsesses you Are you serious when you call me psychotic Just because my reality is not yours I would be insane for that, look

Art Of Madness The Jacksons

I can't help the things I do Tho' they might seem strange to you Got my mind, just spinnin' round Inside, outside, upside down There's an art to all this madness Tho' it seems insane to you There's

Art Of Madness Michael Jackson

I can't help the things I do Tho' they might seem strange to you Got my mind, just spinnin' round Inside, outside, upside down There's an art to all this madness Tho' it seems insane to

Moronic Colossus Haunted

(How many times must a man listen to the same bickering bullshit?) (I guess that's what you have to find out, assholes are dime in a dozen.) So this is what they got?

You Ain't Hurt Nothin' Yet John Anderson

Fractured bones Skins and scrapes They heal over They go away Your gonna feel it When you got as bad as it gets Untill your hearts been broken You aint hurt nothing yet You've got a fever Of 102 Self-diagnosis