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 slipping

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.

The Reasons The Weakerthans

How I don't know how to sing, I can barely play this 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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Sounds Familiar The Weakerthans

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

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.

Plea From A Cat Named Virtute The Weakerthans

Ask the things you shouldn't miss: tape hiss and the modern man, cold war and card catalogues to come join us if they can.

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

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.

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

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.

Everything Must Go The Weakerthans

A cracked-up compass and a pocket watch, some plastic daffodils.

Watermark The Weakerthans

I count to three and grin. You smile and let me in. We sit and watch the wall you painted purple. Speech will spill on space. Our little cups of grace.

(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

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

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.

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.

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".

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

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 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. Pulled along or pulled apart.

This Is A Fire Door Never Leave Open The Weakerthans

I breathe out smoke against the window, trace the letters in your name. Our letters sound the same; full of all our changing that isn't change at all. All straight lines circle sometime.

None Of The Above The Weakerthans

I trace you outline in spilled sugar, Killing time and killing hope. This brand new strip mall chews on farmland as we fish for someone to blame.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Illustrated Bible Stories For Children The Weakerthans

Publicly smile and privately frown. A weeping reprise. 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.

Swing, Swing The All-American Rejects

Days swiftly come and go I'm dreaming of her She's seeing other guys Emotions they stir The sun is gone The nights are long And I am left while the tears fall Did you think that I would cry on the phone

Come On Little Heartbreaker Little Birdy

Everybody knows the reason why I choke and choke I dont know Why Why But its so hard on you To go and throw Somebodys heart in the washer But you are my lover for tonight Baby I know things could be easier

Slips Backwards Lifter Puller

Girl you know this party's just a compromise Between these boardroom suits and your bedroom eyes And don't you think the dancin is a waste of time And i expect you to move if you expect me to apologize

Swing, Swing All-American Rejects

"Swing, Swing" Days swiftly come and go. I'm dreaming of her She's seeing other guys Emotions they stir The sun is gone. The nights are long And I am left while the tears fall.

Sarajevo Savatage

Just stepped back and watched the slide Paragons of innocence Questioning of your intent Never quite sure what you meant From the other side Moments on the carousel Must admit we ride it well And the

Time Slips Away Primitives

There in the hazy shade Bees were buzzing around the flowers Working hard till the end of day While I counted the hours I saw the clouds high in the sky All different but all the same And at times colours

Shapes That Go Together (Remastered Ver.) A-ha

When you were acting tangles I was free And when you were undicided I believed It's all right tonight On the deep blue mountain high Shapes that go together You and I You were feeling lonely I belonged

Shapes That Go Together A-Ha

Shapes That Go Together - A-Ha When you were wrapped in tangles I was free And when you were undecided I believed It`s alright tonight On a deep blue mountain high The shapes that go together You

Spirit Slips Away Thin Lizzy

When the spirit slips away There's nothing you can do, there's nothing you can say May the angels be watching over you When your spirit slips away When the darkness starts to fall You're on your own and

Slips Away (Bonus Track - Dedicated to George Harrison) Andy Timmons

One day you have it all, The next you’ve thrown it all away. And you cry all night, Wondering how you let it go. And it’s so like sand through your fingertips. Ain’t it funny how it slips away.

Time Slips Away Ohio Players

Oh my time slips away,(ohhh)/my oh my time slips away/Away from you and me (umm, hmm)/ my oh my oh my oh my tears are down/girl your love for me goes on and on/Like the time that seems to fly/ Girl my

Metronomic Underground Stereolab

crazy, sturdy, a torpedo crazy, brutal, a torpedo who knows does not speak, who speaks doas not know, keep the mouth closed, rounding the sharpness untie the tangles, to be vacuous, to be infinite, leap

The Fall The Seshen

What do I do when it's bottled up inside And I feel myself on, I feel myself hiding All I know is daddy can't go on like this Hoping that I can forget, hoping I can forgive It at falls down and I spiral

Slip Away Jordan Hill

Let's sit and talk it over Express to one another The things we feel The things we both need to reveal Let's start communicating Before it's much too late And I do believe It's time that we speak candidly