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

Diagnosis The Weakerthans

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. All the cheap tricks I tried too hard not to pull.

Resignation Face To Face

you can't be right/ you're full of prejudice and spite/ you think you've got me pegged but you're wrong/ out of my way/ there is a consequence to pay/ you think you've got me pegged but you're wrong/

Resignation Reef

Well I've been around the world and I ain't seen none like you However can I follow? All the words that you borrow?

Stoic Resignation Textures

I see the light So bright, overthrown The life of a caesar will end Again, the mourning in his eyes Life will not feed on him Strong asthenia He trades his mind The answers he needs In the eye of the emperor

Resignation Superman Big Head Todd & The Monsters

He'll come flying out of this town A resignation superman And today the bad guys win 'Cause he turned his cape in Now, he says And I'll turn my back on this world Yes, I'll turn my eyes from this

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.

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

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.

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.

Plea From A Cat Named Virtute The Weakerthans

I'm tired of this piece of string. You sleep as much as I do now, and you don't eat much of anything.

A New Name For Everything The Weakerthans

When the rent is too high living here between reasons to live and you can't sleep alone and your memories groan and the borders of night start to give.

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?

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.

My Favourite Chords The Weakerthans

And just one pair of clean socks. And a photo of you.

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.

Leash The Weakerthans

Had one of those days when you want to try heroin, Drunk driving, some form of soft suicide. Sitting in silence and staring at ceilings or peeling the paint off of things to confide.

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".

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

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.

(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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Sounds Familiar The Weakerthans

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

Slips And Tangles The Weakerthans

repeatedly begin i'm tangled up in tries slipping on i wonder why i face affection not embrace another urban wasteland thick with fears i see lights that shine like frozen television tears or dying embers of

Nation Radio 4

All around us and in between Politics like cancer Information in extremes Never find the answers Events unfolded Set the stage We know they have us In every way They held a grudge For way too long I feel

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

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.

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.

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 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

Resignation/Naked And Violent Amen

sold his soul Cause I sold myself today Its a solitary New war station Watch it burn the nation I destroy myself cause I can't free Free the world of the enemy The pigs they have and the gods they

The Telemarketer Resignation Tamas Wells

Calls will be measured lest in between You said to Heather That you will scream out the manager's name He called you insane And you showed you were inclined To say you'll resign Calls will be measured

Letter To The Team (After Another Imperfect Season) Tellison

Dear Henry, Peter, Andrew, Richard, Matthew, Benjamin As members and past members of this ignominious team I write to you to apologise for the mess we're in This holding pattern of defeat on defeat on

Letter PANICIAN

Letter to the end of world Alarm me to the past Telling to the rain make me a favourite movie Look at me, look at me Bring myself to the tea time day And choose some word for the long long way It was a

Letter B. Smyth

You are the apple of my eye Na I don't like that You're the wheels to my ride keeps me goin' See I know that she ain't heard nothin' like this You're my moon in the night you be glowin' Cause ain't no

Letter SH

this you surprised me I couldn't drop off some stuffs to change me I think I could change ma based, routines , yeah you raised me I can escape from a lot of stuffs that stuck me , yeah you save me

Letter The Incredible String Band

Here he comes Too much I've got a letter I'd better get out of bed I said Then I pulled the covers right Up to my nose I thought well the letter Might be for Rose Her mother she writes very regularly

Letter ECHOINSIDE (에코인사이드)

Fell into you In the blink of an eye Got no clue where to start Moment I saw you Walking down the hall You came into my life What would I do with you all in my head?

Until The End Of Time Sarah Brightman

Around the world in eighty days we sailed the Seven seas A thousand nights and one, and forty more In fantasy The prophecy in destiny was falling Calling Falling And calling out to me And will