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Inverlea
04:26
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I will keep walking east
To where you lived on Inverlea
I'm not afraid of sentiment except when I so obviously am
You can't even call this rain
It's only fogging up again
I'm no closer to understanding why you love this weather
No closer to understanding why we're not together
I'm pulling at my cuffs and I am fucking up your sweater
I checked all your favourite haunts
The alley by the restaurant
The old abandoned factory
The corner by the library
The warehouses they're tearing down
It's not even your part of town
But I will just keep walking in the hopes that you'll feel better
I'm pulling at my cuffs, but I will stitch them back together
No closer to understanding why you love this weather
Put down the phone
And get yourself back home
What is it that you hope to find
Sadness of a different kind
A note that doesn't quite resolve
A puzzle that'll never solve
I don't know much more than you
All my books are overdue
I'm no closer to understanding why you love this weather
No closer to understanding why we're not together
I'm pulling at my cuffs and I am fucking up your sweater
Barn barn raising
Heart heart breaking
Wide awaken
Rearranging
Put down the phone
And get yourself back home
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2. |
Panacea
05:13
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The darkness doesn't go away
But it changes shape
The patterns on an old front porch or a garden gate
The shadows thrown by candlelight on the fire escape
The darkness doesn't go away
Now is it any wonder how you've got this pull
So tragically, at least to me, irresistible
Despite all my best efforts to the contrary
You always seem to have your hooks deep into me
And I was lying down
Just to rest my eyes before the night shift
With the creaking of the ceiling up above
Always hoping for a panacea
Hoping for your love
The neighbourhood it changes as it stays the same
A hundred years of give and take and water mains
And I wonder if I ever even left at all
If only I was that damn indestructible
And I was lying down
Just to rest my eyes before the night shift
With the creaking of the ceiling up above
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3. |
Nervous System
02:51
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I don't know what to tell you
I am writing in the margins
I am walking through your neighbourhood
I am running from a bargain
I don't know what to give you
Maybe my voice from all the yelling
Maybe my blood from all the rushing
Or maybe nothing, maybe nothing
And I don't know what you're thinking
But I'm not making any of this up
Maybe my nervous system gave it all
And has finally given up
Loving you gets me nowhere
And I've known since the beginning
That you make me want to enter
When there's no chance of me winning
Oh, loving you makes me angry
But it sure don't make me better
Like a forecast I'm dreading
Like a week of rainy weather
And I don't know what you're thinking
But I'm not making any of this up
Maybe my nervous system gave it all
And has finally given up
I don't know what to tell you
I am writing in the margins
I am walking through your neighbourhood
I am running from a bargain
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4. |
Victoria Weather
03:39
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I'm never gonna be your lucky ticket
I'm never gonna be your favourite tune
You say that I'm the sun at the end of August
But I'm the start of March when nothing's in bloom
And you're never work it out unless I tell you
So I'm letting you leave with lots of time
Before you try to love me
Before you try to love me
Before I start believing that you might be mine
There's nothing here to see but a work of fiction
Just a paperback in a discount bin
Maybe you had hoped for Victoria weather
But I am from the valley I live in
And you'll never work it out unless I make you
So I'm letting you leave with lots of time
Before you try to love me
Before you try to love me
Before I start believing that you might be mine
Think that I'll mess it up less on my own
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5. |
A Body Needs
04:15
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If this were a ball of clay, I’d mold you something beautiful
Show you the potential that’s been hiding in the grey
But it’s just my head looking for a thumb
Longing for approval from a mother’s kiss, or yours, or from anyone
Would you pull me aside and give me one more of those smiles
I like, I like, I like
‘Cause a body needs to know when it’s alright
If this were the only sound
I’d hear it as your voice
Slow waves coming out of you in whole notes, nothing forced
But it’s just another song adding to the din
Of every unknown chorus sung by nobody
Blowing in the wind
Would you pull me aside and give me one more of those smiles
I like, I like, I like
‘Cause a body needs to know when it’s alright
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Dolly Cassette
04:57
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Road cut into the shield
Never done driving
Old abandoned motels housing the ghosts
And I think to myself, is it surprising
that I'm always alone when I need you most
Well I tied a flag to the back of my truck, but I'm out of luck again
I've got nothing to haul but this wreck of my heart, my cannonball
I guess I'll be driving a while so I might as well play this Dolly cassette
And just sing it
Try to feel it
The answer's not in a glass, not in a bottle
It's not holding a sign down by the split
It's not breaking your bones into the plaster
Whatever you're looking for, that won't be it
Now the geese wake me up, flying formation
And I'm stuck with the things I wish I never knew
Driving into the dawn like revelation
Darkness falling away in the rearview
Well I tied a flag to the back of my truck, but I'm out of luck again
I've got nothing to haul but this wreck of my heart, my cannonball
I guess I'll be driving a while so I might as well play this Dolly cassette
And just sing it
Try to feel it
Now we're passing Mazinaw
Now we're passing Kishkebus
Drive until there's nothing left
Leave me in the wilderness
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7. |
My Own Darling
03:07
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I am my own darling
I am my own love
I am my own everything
Until one of us gives up
I will talk myself down
I will take myself out
I'll bring myself around
Until one of us gives up
Oh and you
You heartbreaker
Making me do the work
I've gotten good at this
Being my own dream girl
You heartbreaker
Making me pull the weight
I've gotten good at this
Watching you slip away
We keep climbing mountains
We keep building homes
Every minute of the day
Trying to be less alone
We keep singing praises
Echo in empty rooms
I am my own darling
Whether I'm anything to you
Oh and you
You heartbreaker
Making me do the work
I've gotten good at this
Being my own dream girl
You heartbreaker
Making me pull the weight
I've gotten good at this
Watching you slip away
I am my own darling
I am my own love
I am my own everything
Until one of us gives up
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Naviger Ottawa, Ontario
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New home of songwriter Andrea Simms-Karp.
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