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

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".

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Sounds Familiar The Weakerthans

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

Illustrated Bible Stories For Children The Weakerthans

Please hear my cries; I'd like to pull just this one building down. So turn off the sky. Head in my hands. Night keep me warm. White window-sill. Blinded by heart. Cut my hair short.

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

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.

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.

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

Psycho City Great White

Found myself inside an empty room Waitin' for the beast to make a move Ridin' through the TV air The devil makes his playground anywhere One day little baby Don't you be surprised But I'll be gone You

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Watermark The Weakerthans

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

Version City The Clash

There is a train at Version City Waiting for the rhythm mail If you can jump then jump right now She can pull you through to better days Is that the train that the speak off The one I heard in

One Great Summer Amplifier

drained again by you and the summer i'm shadows of monsters i'm showrooms of glistening glass with amphetamine comedowns i'm spinning and turning alone on saint valentines but i think that i hear

Sin City Great White

Diamonds and dust Poor man last, rich man first Lambourginis, caviar Dry martinis, Shangri-la I got a burning feeling Deep inside of me Let your love run I'm going to set it free I'm going in to sin city

City Rovv, leanon(리논)

Baby, let's get lost in the city of dreams Underneath the moonlight, we'll be a team 이 새벽에도 we'll make our way In this crazy world, we'll find our own way to sway Your eyes, they sparkle like the cityscape

Spatula City Weird Al Yankovic

There's just one place to go for all your spatula needs: Spatula City! Spatula City! A giant warehouse of spatulas for every occasion. Thousands to choose from, in every shape, size and color.

Great Train Robbery Black Uhuru

We are hooo hooo hooo New York city so angel angel god god god god Hooo yeah hooo yeah Travel in the Great Train Robbery hooo hooo travel in the Great Train Robbery Travel in the Great Train Robbery hooo

Cornfield His Name Is Alive

Through the fields row by row One plant at a time Down the row field by field This field will take a long time There's corn from here to night This field will take all day Twelve hours and we'll home Until

City Song Emmy The Great

The city called me so I came It isn't mine to question what it said I sleep until the point when I'm awake I walk until there's nothing left to trek And everyone is looking for an answer And everyone is

Pearl City (Rough Mix) The Fall

In Pearl City Pearl City No one knows no one cares About your world of stocks and shares I don't need no riding crop I don't need no roundabout stop You're welcome to Pearl City To bank great white

Salt Lake City The Beach Boys

Down in Utah, the guys and I dig a city called Salt Lake It's got the grooviest kids that's why we never get tired of Salt Lake And the way the kids talk so cool is an out of sight thing And the number

Apocalyptic City Testament

to burn the planet earth I can feel the fire burning inside of me the powers at my fingers waiting you shall see Burn, ignite the population Burn, causing mass cremation Burn, feel no shame

Relax In The City Perfume

心を上向きに 코코로오 우우무키니 마음은 들뜨고 ステキのさあ始まり 스테키노 사아 하지마리 근사한 일의 자 시작이야 One two three Find a great view point Here we go キミの場所がある 키미노 바쇼가 아루 너의 장소가 있어 何かを変えるのは 나니카오 카에루노와 무언가를 바꿀 수 있는건 今かもしれないから 이마카모 시레나이카라 지금일지도

The Thing That Should Not Be Metallica

The Thing That Should Not Be Messenger of Fear in sight Dark deception kills the light Hybrid children watch the sea Pray for Father, roaming free fearless Wretch insanity He watches lurking