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Greyboy Says
03:43
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I watch a raven hop. Hop-hop-hop, rock, rock,
Rock-to-rock, still hot round the house fire’s afterglow
Yesterday, saw that raven picking at an empty hard-hat
Rocking by the side of the road
I tossed a rock, it echoed cross the vacant lot,
The raven cawed and slowly, indolently flew away
I look down and stare, I shouldn’t care. I shouldn’t care
It’s not like we were gonna be good friends anyway
Some days, I can’t do it, sometimes I just can’t do it
The only way around it’s through it
Some days I can’t do it, some days I just can’t do it
The only way around it’s through it.
Maybe nature’s war, or maybe war is nurtured
Maybe we were never really gonna be good friends anyway
The clouds break up, windows down, windows up, the curtains puff
Enough! Enough! Time to get on with the day
See a red-tailed hawk, drop-drop-drop from a flying stop,
Like a rock, onto something in the grass below
Yesterday, I watched that hawk just staring at a raven
Picking at some empty helmet by the road
Some days, I can’t do it, sometimes I just can’t do it
The only way around it’s through it
Some days I can’t do it, some days I just can’t do it
The only way around it’s through it.
See a red-tailed hawk, drop-drop-drop from a flying stop,
Like a rock, onto something in the grass below
Yesterday, I watched that hawk just staring at a raven
Picking at some empty helmet by the road
Some days, I can’t do it, sometimes I just can’t do it
The only way around it’s through it
Some days I can’t do it, some days I just can’t do it
The only way around it’s through it.
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3. |
Lustre Parfait
03:53
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Isn’t it funny how
Little we can do?
How much we
Are like ‘A Scene
From the Deluge.’
Hey Hey Hey - We gather in the dark
Hey Hey Hey - And float above the wreck
Hey Hey Hey - Clear eyes and full heart
Hey Hey Hey - We can only connect
We gather in the dark
All I want
All I wish
Is for a heart I can give
First word
To final wish
A heart I can give
Hey Hey Hey - We gather in the dark
Hey Hey Hey - And float above the wreck
Hey Hey Hey - Clear eyes and full heart
Hey Hey Hey - We can only connect
We gather in the dark
Chasing, chasing our days away
For the finest lustre parfait
Any of us has ever tasted
The finest lustre parfait
Chasing, chasing our days away
For the finest lustre parfait
Anybody has ever tasted
The finest lustre parfait
Hey Hey Hey - We gather in the dark – we can only connect
Hey Hey Hey - And float above the wreck
Hey Hey Hey - Clear eyes and full heart – we can only connect
Hey Hey Hey - We can only connect
We gather in the dark
Chasing, chasing our days away
For the finest lustre parfait
Any of us has ever tasted
The finest lustre parfait
The finest lustre parfait
Anybody has ever tasted
The finest lustre partfait
Any of us has ever tasted
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Heal.
How?
Faith?
Faith.
Powerless
Against the music
In their helmets.
I
Have done
Such bad work,
I’m greedy for life
Take it,
Steal it.
If you don’t feel it,
I won’t feel it
Let’s kill
War with
Our happy hopes
And comforting myths
‘Don’t
Just do
Something,
Stand there,’
Yea, just stand there
They say, ‘ya gotta live in the moment’
They keep saying, ‘Just live in the moment’
Oh, you gotta live in the moment
What they don’t say,
Is the moment
Is a wild place
Is a wild place
If
I’m free
Why do I
Feel like this?
Is
This all
My dreaming
Accomplishes?
Thus
Began
The longest
Night of our lives
‘Understand?
No but,
It’s brilliant.’*
It’s brilliant
They say, ‘just live in the moment’
They keep saying, I gotta live in the moment
Ah, just live in the moment
But what they don’t say,
Is the moment
Is a wild place. It’s a wild place
Heal.
How?
Faith?
Faith.
Just be
Yourself,
Or be Johnny,
Or be Johnny Cash
They say, ‘Just live in the moment’
They keep saying, “Ya gotta live in the moment”
Oh, why can’t you live in the moment?
But what they don’t say
Is the moment
Is a wild place. It’s a wild place.
* ‘Understand? No, but it’s brilliant’ (from the film ‘The Red Circle’)
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Something More
03:11
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I try to live with uncertainty
I am a dark audience
I ‘legalize criminality
And criminalize dissent’
Despite the wild horse in me
Baby, I’m yours, to keep
Some things are worth losing for
So I try to be something more
I haven’t ‘drowned all my cares with drink
I have only helped them grow’*
But it helps me to know what you think
To know all your known unknowns
Despite the wild horse in you
I’m yours, Baby, please don’t say, ‘Fuck you!’
Some things are worth losing for
So, Baby, I try to be something more
Marvel to marvel
Drought to drowned world
I’ll be ‘Old Tomorrow’
You’ll be ‘the cool hand of a girl’
Woo hoo! My heart is racing. Flying. Escaping. Ungh!
Despite the wild horse in us
I’m yours, Baby, please don’t say, ‘So what?’
Some things are worth losing for
Baby, let’s try to be something more
Despite the wild horse in me
Oh Baby, I’m yours, I’m yours to keep
Some things are worth losing for
So, Baby, I will be something more.
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Camaro
03:08
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O, the forgotten way, hold me the forgotten way
Til there’s no daylight between us, oh, nothing will remain
Camaro, the name means just what you think the car can do – Go!
Cherish every touch, the language of love is just what they fear most
Camaro , reveal what you feel in your heart by the way you move*
‘Deciding gone’s best’*, the great sea crashes, silver fingers stroke
The shore
The Seaside Rest, the waitress says, ‘And we’re out of nothing.’
It’s not so much that I’m lonely as everyone’s lonely*
Camaro, the name means just what you think the car can do – Go!
Faster-go-fast, ‘the colour of rabbits’*, it’s all I know
Camaro, reveal what I feel in my heart, my heart is set on you
Daylight between us, the great sea crashes, silver fingers approach
Our toes
Yea, silver fingers stroke
Our toes.
O Camaro, go
O Camaro
Camaro
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7. |
The North Shore
04:42
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8. |
Is There Nowhere
04:26
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Morning’s glowing closer
The sky is clearing like a bruise
Slowly, vivid, closer
Orange, violet and blue
The moon is at its bloody angle
Almost no night left to run
Can you still be led to believe
Or by some stray act undone?
Is there nowhere for us?
Is there nowhere for us?
It’s not getting better
And maybe never will
‘For the millionth time she looked at the sea’*
One more coffee and the bill
Is there nowhere
In this light that don’t adjust?
Is there nowhere for us?
Is there nowhere for us?
Under this milky way of rust?
I’m not feeling better
And maybe never will
And for the millionth time she looked at me
One more coffee and the bill
Is there, is there, nowhere for us?
Is there nowhere for us?
Under this milky way of rust?
One true place, not just one we heard of?
Is there, is there nowhere?
Is there nowhere for us?
Is there nowhere?
Is there nowhere?
Is there nowhere?
Is there nowhere?
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9. |
To Catch The Truth
04:03
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10. |
Let Me Howl
06:19
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11. |
HellBreaksLoose
04:54
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13. |
In The Field
03:16
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14. |
There Goes The Sun
03:38
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Gord Downie Toronto, Ontario
Gordon Downie was a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, musician, writer and activist. He was the lead singer and lyricist for the Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip, which he fronted from their formation in 1984 until his passing in 2017.
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