- E Is for Estranged
Boys run like water from the barrow to the trough
They'll never stop their running
Gunning for their brothers
This house is a hostel
It is peaceful but it's always emptying
Boys all want to be someone
Haven't you heard?
- In Conflict
Strung out on the highway, the car inverted
What are you but a drum and a tube and a wire, black heart?
A fire in the dark?
I have no statement for your benefit, young man
Except this, we all will live again
In the eyes of an actor
And the light on the glass
- Keep the Dog Quiet
My body is a cage.
This union is cage about a cage about a cage.
And this, and this town too.
I'll see you once in a while but I can't be seen with you.
This place is a narrative mess.
The floor a tangle of bedsheets and battered sundress.
The ink has dried in the well.
The journey once was consequential,
- Lewis Takes Action
I got a message for the acolytes.
I am your man for a wifey fight.
I got a thirst for liquid gold.
I'll bludgeon 'til the body's cold.
The stony hiss of cockatrice has cast us into serfdom.
I close my eyes, and spur Imelda down the mountainside
For a liberated Spectrum.
- Lewis Takes Off His Shirt
As soon as I got on the horse, I forgot about the math.
Forgot about the odds against an adolescent standing up to all of Owen's wrath.
The heat of prairie summer, impossible to take.
I grab the hem and lift the fabric over my sweet head.
I know what you're looking for, and
I'm never gonna give it to you.
I'm never gonna give it to you.
- peach plum pear
We speak in the store
I'm a sensitive bore
you seem markedly more
and I'm oozing suprise.
But it's late in the day
and you're well on your way
what was golden went gray
and I'm suddenly shy.
- Peach, Plum, Pear
We speak in the store
I'm a sensitive bore
and you're markedly more
and I'm oozing surprise
But it's late in the day
and you're well on your way
what was golden went gray
- Please Please Please
Ask yourself, are you a slut?
- No you're not!
Did you forget how much you are worth
- It's a lot!
Do you remember when we used do it all for free?
Your head is shouting
Please please please,
- The Arctic Circle
She drives a little white car to the seminar on Modern Romance
Possible possible ideas for a date include... a shooting range
And her chest is full to bursting with thoughts of an evening
Nobody nobody nobody will ever know her longing
She's got a heart that will never melt
She's got a heart that will never never melt
Shields up! Shields up! Bar the door, and keep your dukes up!
- the cn tower belongs to the dead
We the dead, we the dead find a country road
Country road, lead the dead from our homes to the ground Keep a book of the maggots our bodies will snare
'Cause the earth is the earth, no need to travel in the air The CN Tower is built upon our bones!
The CN Tower will always be our home!
Decorate 'round the base, all the graves of our lost loves Cabbages, ginger root and a crucifix
Never rode on the plains, never thought I couldn't stay
Had a good run anyway, had a good run anyway
I could fill up the lake with all the things I didn't say
- This Lamb Sells Condos
No hope for the village, no hope for the village
There's a merchant in our midst and with a barrel fist
He's coloured every surface, he's slapped up a portrait
And yes, it is his own! He's gonna take your home!
Have you seen our visitor? Look! Over the treetops!
Newly conjured erections are making him a killing
And Richmond St. is illing, so the graduates are willing
To buy in to the pillage, now there is no hope for the village
- Took You Two Years to Win My Heart
Took you two years to win my heart
Then two words to break it
The love you ignited,
You firefighted and roared
Ellowing into the rainy night
They say heartbreak is good for the skin
But all that it's helped is my drinking
- Your Light is Spent
Do not offer me a contract
Got no use for a house by the sea
All I ask for is a warm body
To keep this winter from killing me
Everytime you close your eyes and lie still
You look just like a dead man
Dead man, dead man, I'll sing your story