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Downtown’s a strange shade of green tonight
That summer feeling is coming back
The cops are chasing something
That’s really something
The traffic’s bumping, your friends aren’t coming
I’d give you anything
I’ll give you a ride down to Grand Forks
We’ll keep our windows down
I love the wind, the sun on our skin
I love that sound
I love you
I love the smell of late July
We can spend our last dollar on some idiotic trend
Make the same mistake over and over again
We can wait around for our friends
And decide it makes no difference
Can’t shake the sense that bad times are coming
And we’re never going back
The border lined up 50 cars…
All these camouflaged people sent down here from Mars
Sitting in Dreyton thinking… the power of positive drinking
Forget all of our differences
They're all in our heads
When will it end?
Where will it end?
Why will it end?
How will it end?
There are a thousand top-secret silos
Launch codes that some joker knows
In the pretty summer wind, the dirty summer wind
It’s all here and it’s all hidden
But we'll spend our last dollar on some idiotic trend
Make the same mistake over and over again
We can wait around for our friends
And decide it makes no difference
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I met a runner on the road mid flight
A marathon runner, liked to run all night
City to city surfing the wake
Running and running for running’s sake
You got your face in the paper
Halfway to Alberta by then
Grey-black and staring back with pixelated skin
I’ll drink one for you because you got no time to
You’re holding up a bank in downtown Swift Current
With a pistol full of blanks
We all know the reason
Back home you’re a star
Laughing with your sisters and dancing at the bar
Diana in her black jeans Terri in a spin
You blow through like a summer storm
An blow back out again
I met a runner running out of time
Running too fast and ignoring the signs
Something you did somewhere
Conditions of release
On a tear with slicked back hair
Taunting the police
We all know the reason
Back home you’re a star
Laughing with your sisters and dancing at the bar
Diana in her black jeans, Terri in a dress
You’re hold up east of Lethbridge with a bullet in your chest
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Silver Glow
04:51
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You got everything you need you were born on a holiday
Your mother was a shooting star and your father was a Mardi Gras parade
They moved around from pastel coastal town to the world’s tallest cities
And somehow all those country roads, city streets, and cobblestones
brought you here to me
Did it all just start again?
Did history just end?
Will the new year, will the coming year, will next year be as hard?
A wild fire, a ring of tires end to end
From where we been to where we are
We got everything we need and what we don’t have we’ll never miss
What matters is what you think, what you believe
And what you feel when we kiss
Will you do something for me before you go?
Will you say my name and will you sing that line from that one song?
It’s the only line that you know
Will you be thinking of us in some far off city?
Everything single light driving or shining in the night
We’re the city’s silver glow
Did it all just start again?
Did history just end?
Will the new year, will the coming year, will next year be as hard?
A wild fire, a ring of tires end to end
From where we been to where we are
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Heavy Rain
04:00
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The sky opened up and the rain poured out
Just for a minute I lost you there
Standing alone on the edge of the street
With the passing cars and the gutters like rivers
I went somewhere, some terrible future
Violent and bleak
Even more than we’re used to
The taste of fire burned in the air
I looked around and you weren’t there
It seems like nothing at all could mean as much to me as you do
We could live to be a hundred years old
Spend every second together
I’ll never get enough of you
The rain slowed
Heard you shout from a doorway
This strange feeling, some kind of remorse
The overpass at Portage Place
These last few years and the time that I waste
Let’s go out tonight like this was some other town
We’ll dance and laugh and tear the place down
When the end comes I hope that it’s mine
Yell, play that song boys, one more time
It seems like nothing at all could mean as much to me as you do
We could live to be a hundred years old
Spend every second together
I’ll never get enough of you
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My head is clear and my thoughts are light from the long dark hall down a dozen flights
Young and strong and free
Ignorant and white in these new post post-post-post modern times
We’re littered with holes
Rays from both poles
Pulses fired from a distant remote
Riding no hands in debt a few grand, over the ridge down the hill to coast and pretend
Language is colourful
Your kids are wonderful
Change feels impossible
Market unstoppable
Stock blowing out a storm blowing in
With bullet sized hale
Huge folds of skin
Afraid of each other right to the end
Depressed and alone in a huge crowd of friends
Language is colourful
Your kids are wonderful
Change feels impossible
Market unstoppable
Conditions optimal
I feel just terrible
News is all horrible
It’s all unbearable
It’s crisp and cold when systems change
We’re safe and warm and entertained
A century of protest some social gain
Out of idle hands and swirling down the drain
Photos of earth beamed back from the edge
See the past and future in the infrared
From the microscopic drones to the horse-drawn sled
To the waking dead of his head on a bed going off his meds
Language is colourful
Your kids are wonderful
Change feels impossible
Market unstoppable
Conditions optimal
I feel just terrible
News is all horrible
It’s all unbearable
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6. |
Paradise
02:49
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I come from another country, paradise under the sun
English tanks and American Banks came and freed everyone
I got off the plane in December, an impossible cold
They warned me of this I remember, but you don’t ever know
Toronto was sprawling and easy, a conservative kind of clean
Money and people from all over the world living the same dream
I worked for a while in a hotel and I made some good friends there
But I never got used to things over produced or the locals with their $100 hair
I met a woman and we moved to the west coast but things got weird somehow
I thought it was a joke when my visa was revoked but that’s how it is now
People everywhere are friendly, they’ll stay up and drink all night
But the suits at immigration are always on vacation and you never see the same face twice
I moved to another country, paradise under the stars
But I can’t afford to stay and they’re sending me away
Someone changed the laws
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Indonesia
04:09
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I bought a six month ticket to the south pacific
I bought some vitamin c’s and some floral-print shirts
I got a storage locker filled I gave my records to my brother
Man it felt so good to put my notice in at work
My friends threw me a party they were all so kind
I made a toast to Indonesia and my uncle started crying
I landed in Jakarta my money belt and jeans
Ten million people and me walking in my sleep
New wave synth pop music everywhere
Pitch corrected music in the south pacific air
I saw you in a movie once but I generalize
I wonder if this number is even worth dialing
Kamu turis yang membosankan. Apa yang kamu harapkan?
Sweating through my visor hotel room on fire
Hours in the sun when my shuttle blew a tire
I slept right through the weekend and I dreamed like I was high
I woke up in the bathtub and I wished you were beside me
I’m a tourist in the streets here I‘m a tourist back at home
In a cab or in a crowd I’m completely on my own
New wave synth pop music everywhere
Pitch corrected music in the south pacific air
I saw you in a movie once but I generalize
I wonder if this number is even worth dialing
Kamu turis yang membosankan. Apa yang kamu harapkan?
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8. |
In it to Win it
03:24
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Apparently she's not catching on
Wild when someone loves you truth and all
She said, I'll take you out somewhere
We can figure it out on our own
She said you'll see
Stay strong, you'll see
Recently tell me that you don't feel like something's gone wrong
People shouldn't have to fear sleep, or need a reason to be decent
To want a city free of violence, something when we're hungry
A future for our children
You, her, them, and me
Stay strong and we'll see
Clearly we ain't catching on
I speak for myself so calm down
There's no mystery to the fact
We're not along in the world
A future rising in the distance
Rally a resistance, if not us than for our kids, yeah
You her them and me, stay strong and we'll see
Music in the night, people dreaming in the night
Saw a figure in the night, thief through the window in the night
You want to take it easy, you want to see the world
You want to win the lotto and you want to meet a girl
People dancing in the night, find romance late in the night
The older generation taking chances in the night
You want to take it easy but you want to see the world
You want to win the lotto and you want to meet a girl
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9. |
Gold Coins
03:25
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These two men while not related lived like brothers shared one heart
So much that their blood relations could scarcely tell these men apart
One spring morning while out riding they found a man along their path
A wealthy merchant cart turned over, scattered gold and broken back
Every one of us
All of us, all of us
We are all capable of evil and righteousness
Our hearts are as the moon as the moon
Always a bright side and the darkness too
A fortune piled up for the taking
Each man wondered to himself of principle of consequence
Of a life with so much wealth
The first stepped forward, his eyes flashing
He drew his sword and killed the man
The other stood struck with horror at the actions of his friend
Brother have you lost your senses?
Murder for a bag of gold?
I’d sooner strike you down myself than live with this upon my soul
The killer, overcome with passion, lashed out at his honest friend
Who drew his sword in disbelief and killed him in his own defense
Every one of us
All of us, all of us
We are all capable of evil and righteousness
Our hearts are as the moon as the moon
Always a bright side and the darkness too
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10. |
Freakin
04:47
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You say your faith will lead us to better times
Words like a warning shot
A train jumping the tracks, coming in too hot
Some holy fool
You said from holiness to destitution loneliness
The truth goes out the window when the building catches fire
From orthodox to loose we’re scrambling for a substitute
Some reason to continue when our hotrod blows a tire
She said, it’s alright man it’s a long weekend and everybody’s freakin
Stopped, rolling around, and we still can’t see
Playing a real game betting anything and everything
Hey this is serious
We’re giving up thinking, control
Our hands are off the wheel
Our freedom to speak out, perhaps even to feel
Sitting around waiting for a magic man with giant hands to push us on and on
Hard times are coming and we’re all here doing nothing
Star shaped ice cubes in our drinks and we’re terrified of strangers
Her heart’s aflutter she’s convinced that Jesus loves her
He mighta loved her back if he only coulda changed her
He said, it’s alright yeah it’s a long weekend and everybody’s freakin
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