| 1. Gordon Downie - Vancouver Divorce |
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What the hell is this? You said, "It's art, just fuckin' mirror it." Where did we go wrong? If not here, where do we belong? In a shot of sun off an...
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| 2. Gordon Downie - Who By Rote |
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I'm here because you're here and when you go I'm going too As neutral as snow covering up violence your mind was smashing its gear like The Who by...
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| 3. Gordon Downie - Chancellor |
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Seconds from pajamas I must first open all the doors and the windows and invite the vampire in to be one of us. Then, in the guise of cool air, in...
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| 4. Gordon Downie - Christmastime In Toronto |
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Oh oh yea So this is your number well I just called to say 'hello' I was blurting, you were blurting, we were talking in morse code We just got cut...
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| 5. Gordon Downie - Starpainters |
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The myth is neither here nor there, from the air. Just blue lake stains and purified, parcelled squares: a crazy quilt of spearmint, of mustard and...
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| 6. Gordon Downie - Willow Logic |
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I have a secret. Tell me. No. Please tell me. No. Put it out of your mind. Please? If I put it out of my mind, then will you tell me? She was always...
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| 7. Gordon Downie - Into The Night |
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I saw you running with your friends I called your name too loud- "come back" so many times that it might have been embarrassing if you hadn't come...
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| 8. Gordon Downie - Steeplechase |
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There's a cruel crumpling sound from over yonder by the steeplechase it's a sound of coming down like horses slamming on the brakes it's the sound of...
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| 9. Gordon Downie - Pillform #2 |
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Through these last fifty years as television's taught us war is folly and that you should never throw over your real friends and in the end it might...
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| 10. Gordon Downie - 11th Fret |
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So this is fucking off by degrees and I suppose we turned out to be not-quite-Hawaii but I can float back to sleep cause at least you're lying to me...
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| 11. Gordon Downie - Lofty Pines |
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It's too hot to sleep. Let's gather 'round the fan. We can't do nothin' bout the heat, so let's just do what we can and everything 'll be just fine....
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| 12. Gordon Downie - More Me Less You |
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Is he good looking? What am I saying? We're all good looking. Can I stay til I make some arrangements? Then we can begin our estrangement? your...
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| 13. Gordon Downie - Figment |
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You know my name is figment i'm not who you think i am all of my heroes are women and all of em are cinnamon (my cinnamon women) the sanding sound...
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| 14. Gordon Downie - Canada Geese |
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Us middle-aged men just completing the finishing touches on a dope deal. It's agreed we get a small piece in the middle of a cornfield. When these...
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