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Lustre Parfait

by Gord Downie & Bob Rock

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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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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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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
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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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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Let Me Howl 06:19
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In The Field 03:16
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More than a decade in the making, Lustre Parfait is the long-mythologized collaboration of rock n' roll giants. Gord Downie, the iconic frontman of The Tragically Hip, and legendary producer Bob Rock (Metallica, Bon Jovi, Motley Crüe, Michael Bublé) combine on a fourteen-song double-album with the newfangled energy of two restless talents in lockstep.

Recorded between 2009 and 2016, Rock's Grammy Award-winning flair lights up Downie's peerless lyricism and incendiary heart. In contrast to the raw intimacy of Downie's posthumous solo releases – 2017's letter-to-loved-ones Introduce Yerself, and 2020's ghostly goodbye Away Is Mine – Lustre Parfait is unabashedly infectious, a gift of unbridled expression from one of Canada's most cherished voices, belting out pristine lyrics from in-the-pocket of a gleaming rock band, relentless, and charged with the unifying forces of poetry and power.

Inspired by their brotherhood under the muse of rock n' roll, their work together began when Bob produced The Tragically Hip's World Container (2006) and We Are The Same (2009). It was after the second outing that Gord asked if Bob had music he could write to, leading to Lustre Parfait: the ninth album to bear Downie's name outside the Hip, and the first to bear Rock's.

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released May 5, 2023

All Songs Written by Gord Downie & Bob Rock
Produced by Bob Rock
Additional Production by Adam Greenholtz and Jamey Koch
Mixed by Bob Rock and Adam Greenholtz
Mastered by Chris Allgood and Emily Laazar
Released by Arts & Crafts Productions Inc.

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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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