1. |
Born to Bar Band
02:07
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I'm not trying to drink from your bottle I'm an honest man
and I'm straight but they call me a faggot they don't like my band
but I don't mind I'm not trying to scoop every butterfly out of the sky
no I don't mind I'm gonna sing sing sing tonight
I'm gonna sing sing sing til I die
days seem long waiting to sing our songs
no one goes on and on I know I know
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2. |
Mathematics
03:28
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fighting gold is lonely when i can't watch your temper sit down
keep it on the burner hands upon the candles burn like love
baby I'll be your law of averages
I ain't special but I'm yours
mathematics and science
are like twin heartbeats
go on undone with your broken faith without key
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3. |
Bicycle Man
01:46
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coffee hits me wrong these days
I'm sweeping up the floor
in the familiar life of here I am stranded
so forget your drunken Christmases and fuck me
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Late you'll drive all the way home
stay the night keep the days long
inner cries are for the movies
do you cry just to prove it?
Come out later and tell your friends this summer I'm just stuck working
so I don't hate it because this is it this summer I'm just staying in
You're beautiful girl got your eye on the world I gotta look in your eyes to notice
Come out later and tell your friends this summer I'm just staying in
so I don't hate it because this is it this summer I'm just stuck working
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5. |
Catch You
02:00
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All eyes on you in a happy way
the nights are long when you sleep all day and you belong home with me
I'm breaking bottles in a horseless town my babies ghost still hangs around and I ain't on your side
Maybe I'll catch you on the phone
a selfish girl should sleep alone
what kind of love you looking for?
don't tell me everything is gone
Hard looking at you when you look that way
but you know I'm here to stay and you belong home with me
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6. |
Don't Fuck With Me
01:37
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who wants to be forgotten?
all these hands shake to belong to keep your grip strong
Send me your sunshine rake my back long nails are necessary to get along
When ink has dried and you're awake girl too late to tell jokes don't be afraid to tell all:
don't fuck with me
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7. |
Let's Go To Hell
02:14
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i'll be hopping on a Greyhound
while the young kids pass the bag round honey
i'll be knocking on your door now
you've been hiding in the downtown maybe alone
oh you're walking to a sale now hopping alone
don't be losing just to fail now if you wanna go
you can follow me to hell now
if your branches left you naked alone
every time i joke you know i kid around
i'll be mapping up the pale ground
while the young kids buy the white and lose money
i'll be knocking on your head now
you've been dreaming of a downtown maybe alone
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8. |
Horseshoes
03:21
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babe my favourite band is on
they play my favourite kinda song
i might be waiting for the fall
slides to summer breaks the law
of science's icy knowledge
i know not all
stumble myself to the bar
haven't drank that much at all
buy a round for all my friends
wait for the band to hit the stage again
signs that i see trawling for stolen sun
babe my favourite band is on
haven't drank that much at all
they play my favourite kinda song
i might be waiting for the fall
paid my tab i'm out the door
slides to summer breaks the law
signs that i see trawling for stolen sun
i'll fuckin kill you
for stolen sun
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9. |
Night Needles
03:05
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what words to hold when i'm alone?
somehow
doubt
size
and steep
no phone could hold me the road if i thought that i'd been cheap
don't it bring up the time
you were last in the line
i lose you
don't it bring up the time
don't it bring
get up get up get up
yeah don't it bring up the time?
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10. |
Hockey Night in Canada
02:41
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there's a girl here who thinks that she knows
there's a game here we've all chose to watch it
cuz i know she's like me
you said "your boys are skating slow"
i took the bet took the bait cuz i know
i'm feeling like a cat underwater
that's not waiting to feel better
whisper "me" when it's 7-3
i'll shake you when it's 7-2
we're nothing
our motto goes: watch with me no you're not alone baby you said "watching all the Leafs games on my TV yeah I've been waiting for 20 years for them to win the Cup cuz 'so close' ain't enough and I think I'm ready."
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11. |
One of Those Years
02:22
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ive been coming up all wrong
two bits cant get me a plate in toronto
my father told me how it goes
the special silver wont get shown to us
no bronze
what heart is poor? c'mon
let 'em and they'll destroy you
keep 'em out and you'll stay lost
stay locked and shown to us: no bronze
what heart is gold? c'mom
no one knows us but i know love
what heart is yours? c'mon
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12. |
The Fog
04:20
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i have known mountain time
walking slow in the river
i'm gonna lie my head under the sun
i've seen your dull eyes shine
through the fog of drinking wine
and i (couldn't i?) feel alive
try knowing coming up will get you down
horizons you have seen getting closer
and the last thing in your way will touch your liver
why oh why?
i have thumbed out from nipigon
with a beard stuck to my chin
i'm goin to my town
the place where i was born
i've got friends who fuck my girlfriends
enemies who buy me beer
and i (shouldn't i?) be surprised
try knowing coming up will get you down
horizons you have seen getting closer
and the last thing in your way will send a shiver down your spine
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13. |
Sunshine City
02:45
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14. |
Champs
01:11
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i watch watchers at night
standing in the line
novices in a dream we piss in the sky
i like sucking on limes
never right on time
always early if the world meets me right on time
take five
girl don't count me outside
babe don't count me out why
couldn't we not not try
summers coming up
no i can't be that guy
some are born to rich lives
some are born to coal mines
some are coming up
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15. |
Reena
03:06
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i'm blown away
here in the cold
you're on the plane
you know i'd like to leave the past behind
here you are within a whisper
will we always be together my love?
here you are within a whisper
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16. |
Skeleton Man
01:32
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never rakin up the past and celebrating every craze
hey i elect love to keep us us livin while we're dying
skeletons and several sagging ladies on the #8
hey i know enough to stay out of the graveyard
who keeps on talkin bout dead relatives?
and you done a whole lotta talkin
at home i'm finding sickles
gaping nothing but afraid
ways around to get us over when we're lying
distract your mind and keep your time and never let it get away
hey that's love
ways to keep us from the grave
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17. |
That Evil Beat
02:55
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make a meal or feast a hello
set the silver down again
lose a beat on some unknown
clip the calendar some more
when he sees what leaves him alone
it's a stomach sighing for more
cranes and streets look out to the store
cut the creek and saw the phone
call an evil beat a song
walk a mile inside a mind
i can't be alone and all these parties feel alone and all i've tried
start a team to cheat the towel
keep your garden flowerless
when your dreams won't sleep for hours
you'll be right back back in my heart
call an evil beat a song
mark a mile inside a mind
i can't be alone and all these parties feel alone and alive
i can't be alone and all these parties feel alone and all i've tried
aaheeyahhh it's gettin better!
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18. |
World Finds You
02:22
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when the world you find absurd and turning faster and your head gets covered in news
there's a land you should be planning on landing on it's harmless
the stares a band can stand are only if it's friend shit covered in booze
you can come and have a laugh and join me staring at the map
we all see off ourselves when the world finds you
i know it's easier to be happy when it's tropical
so glad you said whatever when we parted cuz your memory's back in my room
you're stuck in santeria maybe i can come and see ya
we all see off ourselves when the world finds you
i know it's easier to be happy when it's magical
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19. |
Happy Man
02:12
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we were dying for a heart
i put a light in my hand
we were lying in the park
beside a garbage can
look at that street sign we'll be fine talk about anything
do everything worth mentioning but dance cuz dancing's arrogant
on a mattress in the dark i got an ampersand
when the story rolls to park i'll be a happy man
we won't freeze tonight feelin right walk around anywhere
a lotta wanna party and dance cuz dancing's here again
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20. |
The Sleeper
02:18
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the crystal heart is pure but hollow
taking steps towards the altar in a not so pure embrace
the lonely eyes once draped in sorrow
find a sympathetic partner in a bottle labeled rye
awake the sleeper nothing changes just redefines
a normal life so boring and depressing and cliche
awake the sleeper
a rural beach that calms the squatter staring blankly at the sunrise waiting for the world to end
at once a king of men now sunken to a suicidal drunk and pathetic waste of aire
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21. |
Wait a Minute, Charlie
01:45
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hey wait a minute charlie
instead of goin to the party wait a minute
instead of joining the piss parade we'll go and have a sunny day and make a little memory and call me when you're lonely
it's these times no one understands
and i know you're low
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22. |
Memory Motel
02:33
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love letters and flowers that sing a little more in my range than a sparkly ring
not fair all your friends have all left at least they're not pretending to be happy
i'm not borrowing sheets from my dad i didn't write another song for ya just to be sappy
now none of it means anything i guess i'm better off just humming along or stopping
what else could divide a house and put all of me out?
the sunbelt is a Greyhound away but i'll remain (well y'know i couldn't leave ya)
no sour tea talking no flattered remains (well y'know i couldn't keep ya)
no better than hours away from our days between stations
and like a long-song-makeout you're making me read
like a teenage highway turning twenty
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23. |
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where i go is cold and
what i wear will show it anywhere i love it baby
you could leave me lonely on the brightest sunday
hell ain't real if cold is coming, football
you need a friend if you're going there
well anywhere i care enough to be i know that you want me
and prom ain't coming i like no wheels on summer streets
and cold is coming i like to feel differently
so stick with saturday and keep your lovely as air to breathe or anything you could give me lonely on a groovy friday
miles of fear and coaches yelling football
you could carry autumn bring it to the bottom
tell my year that cold is coming see a frigid guarantee
and love keeps loving
i like feelings bouncing free
and cold is coming
i like to feel differently
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she licked her wild tooth in better walking towns
she told me grass is a blade
sleep never comes if it never goes away
she set a knee-high standard for the place i like it like that
she's back on salad packs
she cut up to corrode what we owe to all our never knows
some got trouble
trouble with their eyesight
some got trouble
trouble with their insides
some got muscle
the colour that they hide behind
she gotta reach her arm to find a place
i tackle like that
she's back on blades of grass
she don't know what i owe cuz we owe together
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25. |
Vegetable Bros
02:13
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well you master facts
crack your back
keep your hands on beef fat
you know you gotta be fast
we get along with the song
cuz if i don't it'll take it away
you know i've been right
you know i've been wrong
you know i've been making up this song
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26. |
Rainy River, ON
01:41
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humble shadows in the mine
curate my day send me signs
go rope the long road you traveled on
so out of eyesight now
so make that trip and the earth's wide lips gonna steal you
and the garden walls when the morning falls gonna appeal to you
not an act of you
but the least you'd do
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27. |
Beach Music
01:49
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minor me
it's the legend of the western sky
I could be
no elementary slim coat guy
mind on meat
you got a lotta nervous working
sell your deeds
tell them luck is falling from trees
no life complete till you belong
and I'm coming home
you got a leader in me
I'm talkin bout the silly shit
that you need to remember where you came from honey
and oh I know you'll remember where you came from
with me
out on the beach
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28. |
Lump in My Throat
02:27
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I wish you'd make your silence a hello
(just so you know)
and push all pain violence out the door
(whether weather is outside)
and stash it all in a box and put it where you never go
and leave me without trying
shut the door
since then I've been living with a lump in my throat
since then I've been living alone
so keep your bloody frames on those high hopes
some friends will tell you
some friends will help you with a smile
(whether weather is outside)
some friends will buy you drinks
some friends will let you be alone
never gonna leave you
I need you
won't keep you
I'd meet you in a dump
and what could be amends if all your naked miles cut your bones?
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29. |
In the Back Nine
01:14
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that guy calling you inside
my size
longer waistline
no I can't think forward
it's piled high on my shoulders
laugh lines: a gift from always
no sign of slips and palsy
don't mind
it's them that's changing
cuz I'll fight and kick for your love
to keep you satisfied
in the back nine of your life
and no one
could look you in the eye
in the back nine of your life
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30. |
Sleep Kilometres
01:37
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31. |
Like a Song
01:44
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north perfume in the reading fields
meadowed to your eye
it won't take us long
gotta lean full speed on my searching heels
spread across the sky
why? we're gonna get away with this one
all of last night flies out the back of my mind
fading from the times like a song
gotta beat that heat not hide from the street gonna dive into the world/whirl
we're gonna get away with this one honey
and don't doubt the river will be going till your liver won't last you ask me we gonna get away this one?
keep your wide eyes off of my backside and I'll keep mine of your thighs and we'll ride like a song
with some old steel wool scrape the coals of the grill it'll wipe of like a fine wine
we're gonna get away with this one
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32. |
Local Anchor
02:09
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heard you went back it wasn't the same
it's never gonna be happy recess and laughing days again
took a look then i took it away
there's nothing glad about empty halls and forgotten names
local anchor hasn't been the same
since we drank away autumns slept away summers and paid for it
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