Impossibilium

I love you even when I don’t even know I’m doing itand dismiss it out of hand cause I don’t even know I’m doing itbut your finger starts to wiggle and landscapes emergeCan you spare some change dear, we’ve only got three hundred feet to go Roses are worth more […]


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I'll Believe In You

well its 7:00 AM and she woke by the radioyeah she rolled on over said, "where did my man go?"she’s been a gunslinger’s wife all her lifenow she fights when she’s ablefor the sake of the kids when the knife’s at their necks in the cradleshe screams I’ll believe in […]


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Courage (For Hugh MacLennan)

Watch the band through a bunch of dancersQuickly, follow the unknown with something more familiar.Quickly something familiarCourage, my word it didn’t come it doesn’t matter Sleepwalk, so fast asleep in a motelthat has the lay of home and piss on all of yourbackground and piss on all your surroundingsCourage, my […]


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Fully Completely

Bring me back in shackles,hang me long out in the sun,exonerate me, forget about meI recommend measures for ending it.Lover, she simply slammed the door.She said, "you’re gonna miss me."Wait and you’ll see." fully, completelyI ponder the endlessness of the stars,ignoring said same of my father.Either it’ll move meor it’ll […]


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Daredevil

I can’t imagine how you feel and this is how you feelyou say your name like you’re no longer convincedbut now they’re strapping you in and closing the lidand they’re dropping you in what’s done you didThe bell is picking up speed there’s water leaking inthat ol’ equilibrium just starts […]


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At The Hundredth Meridian

Me debunk an American myth?And take my life in my hands?Where the great plains begin,at the hundredth meridian.At the hundredth meridian,where the great plains begin Driving down a corduroy road,weeds standing shoulder highFerris wheel is rusting off in the distanceAt the hundredth meridian where the great plains begin Left alone […]


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Nautical Disaster

I had this dream where I relished the fray and the screaming filled my head all day.It was as though I had been spit here,settled in,into the pocket of a lighthouse on some rocky socket,off the coast of France, dear. One afternoon,four thousand men died in the water here and […]


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Bobcaygeon

I left your house this morning about a quarter after nine Coulda been the Willie Nelson, coulda been the wine When I left your house this morning It was a little after nine It was in Bobcaygeon I saw the constellations Reveal themselves one star at a time Drove back […]


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Springtime In Vienna

Instructions from the manualcould not have been much more plainthe blues are still requiredthe blues are still required againpast territorial piss-postspast whispers in the closetspast screamin’ from the rooftopswe live to survive our paradoxes Men here of the secretthey pass in upholstered silencethey only exist in crisisthey only exist in […]


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Another Midnight

he was a coal miner in the springblinded with its dusty resolutionsbroke his back for higher contributionsnow he’d take anythingwell she was 1970burning like a cigarette long seasonheir to her family’s old treasonsshe makes love hard like an enemyoh ma he’s dying and the river don’t sleepwhen the water runs […]


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Highway Girl

I’m going down to see my highway girlshe just back from around the worldI’m gonna get me a gun, I’m gonna stand on guardin a little white booth in her front yard throwing rocks at her window what could she doif I throw enough rocks one might break throughwell she […]


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Something On

Your imagination’s having puppies It could be a video for new recruits Just stare into the camera And pretend that you got the flu Or dream of impossible vacations And get all teary from the wind Look as though you’re standing at the station Long after the train came in […]


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Greasy Jungle

Greasy jungle metropolis noirEasy tangles the easiest so farAhI drove down your roadto Hazeldean where I tastedyour funeral home’s sandwiches and coffeeI saw your hands melt into one anotherI saw you grieve and growcare a lot about one anotherI stood at your sinkand I felt your warm waterI washed your […]


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She Didn’t Know

orn a queen up on her side, and she felt it too.there’s a lot you can see when there’s nothing to doshe got down on her knees and she dug herself outslipping to the east side and prancing about. learn a language baby, it’s that kind of placelow card is […]


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All Canadian Surf Club

Well there’s a rockin’ little spotNext to the Regent TheatreAnd if you wanna make the sceneYou’ll make it sooner or laterYou’re really hanging with the crowd You know the ins and the outs hereAll Canadian Surf ClubDenim jackets and long hair Well we’re rocking to the beachWatch the waves as […]


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