Plea From A Cat Named Virtute The Weakerthans

I don't know who you're talking to, I made a search through every room, but all I found was dust that moved in shadows of the afternoon And listen, about those bitter songs you sing; they're not helping

Confessions Of A Futon-Revolutionist The Weakerthans

Held like water in you shaking hands are all the small defeats a day demands. 10-6 or 9-5 trying, dying to survive. Never knowing what survival means. Leave the apartment to buy alcohol.

Uncorrected Proofs The Weakerthans

The mirrors and the unacknowledged nods. Dial tones and license plates. The words you didn't choose. Everything the day's too small to hold spills on to the dusk, and shorts the evening's fuse.

Everything Must Go The Weakerthans

A cracked-up compass and a pocket watch, some plastic daffodils.

Letter Of Resignation The Weakerthans

Takes a dried up ball-point, lemon juice and water, keeps a diary invisibly, In the kitchen corner of a basement bachelor suite there's a certain search for certainty, you know we'll never see her hands

Della And The Dealer Hoyt Axton

It was Della and the Dealer and a dog named Jake And a cat named Kalamazoo. Left the city in a pick up truck, Gonna make some dreams come true.

Greatest Hits Collection The Weakerthans

Knock so I'll know you're still there, half listening, interpreting the air. Full of failing foreign tongue, my dialect of stammer come undone.

Exiles Among You The Weakerthans

Her body is a difficult sister, and she loves her, and hides her somewhere in herself safe from harm. She's barely coasting into a paycheque, stuck on empty.

Manifest The Weakerthans

> I want to call a request through heating vents, And hear them answered with a whispered no, To crack the code of muscles slack and tense, Let every second step in boots on snow, Complete you name

History To The Defeated The Weakerthans

There's blood in the sink, and he's plunging his wrists in. A hangover halo is washing away. Mechanic-school dropout stares into the mirror, stands up in his derelict daydreams.

Wellington's Wednesdays The Weakerthans

The night's a spill, a permanent stain; the city soaks in silence, salt and dirty snow. A blue glow from the tv again, the cutains never open, faces never show.

Anchorless The Weakerthans

They called here to tell me that your're finally dying, through a veil of childish cries. Southern Manitoba prairie's pulling at the pant leg of your bad disguise. So why were you so anchorless?

Reconstruction Site The Weakerthans

Well I'm lost, I'm afraid, Rope tied down to a leaky boat, To the roof of a car on a road in the dark and it's snowing.

This Is A Fire Door Never Leave Open The Weakerthans

Headlights race towards the corner of the dining room. Half illuminate a face before they disappear. You breathe in forty years of failing to describe a feeling.

Without Mythologies The Weakerthans

A soft breeze with the slippery concrete black and full of muddy slush, contrasting with the hoarfrost, clean and hung on a tunnel of silent shivering trees (the ones you said you'd like to be), and the

Watermark The Weakerthans

We sit and watch the wall you painted purple. Speech will spill on space. Our little cups of grace.

Pamphleteer The Weakerthans

I clutch my stack of paper, press one to a chest, then watch it swoop and stutter to the ground. I'm weary with right-angles, abbreviated daylight, and waiting for a winter to be done.

Sounds Familiar The Weakerthans

We emerged from youth all wide-eyed like the rest.

None Of The Above The Weakerthans

But we communicate in questions, And all our answers sound the same. Under sputtering flourescents, After re-fills are re-filled. Negotiations at a stand-still, Spoon and rolling saucer stilled.

Aside The Weakerthans

Measure me in metered lines, in one decisive stare, the time it takes to get from here to there. My ribs that show through t-shirts and these shoes I got for free; I'm unconsoled, I'm lonely.

Mickey's Monkey (Live At Fox Theatre, Detroit, MI/1964) The Miracles

This cat named Mickey came from out of town, yea! He was spreading a new dance all around In just a matter of a few days, yea! His dance became the new teenage craze.

Mickey's Monkey (Mono) The Miracles

This cat named Mickey came from out of town, yea! He was spreading a new dance all around In just a matter of a few days, yea! His dance became the new teenage craze.

Mickey's Monkey Mother's Finest

This cat named Mickey came from out of town, yea! He was spreading a new dance all around In just a matter of a few days, yea! His dance became the new teenage craze.

Mickey's Monkey The Hollies

This cat named Mickey came from out of town, yea! He was spreading a new dance all around In just a matter of a few days, yea! His dance became the new teenage craze.

Slips And Tangles The Weakerthans

we're rolling neon lights and slinking purple skies squeeze out soft regrets from all our lives as i greet another door that opens in to that place that we repeatedly begin i'm tangled up in tries slipping

Moonstone Cat Stevens

Well, first I have to tell you that I'm not insane and that once I was a famous archaeologist {named} {who ran} a recent expedition in a distant land I just happened to passin' my hand in the sand and

Mickey's Monkey Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

This cat named Mickey came from out of town, yea! He was spreading a new dance all around In just a matter of a few days, yea! His dance became the new teenage craze.

Diagnosis The Weakerthans

I have a headache. I have a sore back. I have a letter I can't send. I have desire, it falters and falls down, it calls you up drunk at three or four a.m. to wonder when...wonderful.

My Favourite Chords The Weakerthans

They're building a new hotel. The Mayor's out killing kids to keep taxes down, and me and my anger sit folding a paper bird, letting the curtains turn to beating wind.

A New Name For Everything The Weakerthans

When you can't save cash or conviction; you're broke and you're breaking - a tired shoelace or a wave. So long past, past-due. A new name for everything.

Psalm For The Elks Lodge Last Call The Weakerthans

Let the waitress put the chairs up, let the glasses that you broke, form a picture of our leader with a halo made of smoke. Let the golden oldies station crackle and come through.

Moonstone (Stereo Version) Cat Stevens

Well, first I have to tell you that I'm not insane And that once I was a famous archaeologist named In a recent expedition in a distant land I just happened to be passing my hand in the sand And then I

Leash The Weakerthans

Sitting in silence and staring at ceilings or peeling the paint off of things to confide. Teach me to wiggle my ears like that, Show me the scar that you got when you fell off your bike.

(Hospital Vespers) The Weakerthans

Doctors play your dosage like a card trick Scrabbled down the hallways yelling "Yatzee" I brought books on Harper in the Arctic Something called "The Politics of Lonely" A toothbrush and Quick Pick with

Benediction The Weakerthans

So you don't get to be a saint Martyrs never last this long Guess I'll never be the one To defeat desire in song Here's a marker Here's my naked skin Our 'exhibit A' Put a small x where I lost my way

The Reasons The Weakerthans

thing, But you never seem to mind, And you tell me to fuck off, When I need somebody to, How you make me laugh so hard, How whole years refuse to stay, Where we told them to bad dog, Locked up blindly in a

One Great City! The Weakerthans

> late afternoon another day is nearly done a darker grey is breaking through a lighter one a thousand sharpened elbows in the underground that hollow hurried sound of feet on polished floor and in

Fallow The Weakerthans

Wait until the day says it's closing, and public is put away. Write by the light of a pay phone your list of "I meant to say". Like "Winter comes too soon", or "Radiators hum out of tune".

The Prescience Of Dawn The Weakerthans

the sirens woke me up again i know they're coming for me someday just a matter of when count to 25 and yawn touch the clock and turn my back against the dawn and hope for that one dream of hardware stores

Illustrated Bible Stories For Children The Weakerthans

It's easy to sigh; to sprinkle a handful of plausible lies. Our buildings will rise, poke out our own eyes. Publicly smile and privately frown. A weeping reprise.

Elegy For Elsabet The Weakerthans

So the fields are stubble, the garden is done where the scary scarecrow stands and sees her holding up horizons with her hands. She's so tired of reading Daddy's lips - -that essay on a frown.

Time's Arrow The Weakerthans

> So you watch the sunrise sinking And she's talking in her sleep A dream of how alone she was Tomorrow when you keep All those promises to someone In a mirror you will find At your parents' house

The Last Last One The Weakerthans

And nothing happens in the end. I'm thinking of you less, more concerned... and more is less, I guess it doesn't matter now. Maybe we'll never go insane.

Sprung On The Cat (Album Version) Sir Mix-A-Lot

why you don't see me, brothers (Yeah) Should I preach (Preach, preach) Awreit, back to the beach A O.G. from the hood Went down to the beach but his game was weak Met a sweet thing named Yolanda She had

Left And Leaving The Weakerthans

The sidewalks are watching me think about you, sparkled with broken glass. I'm back with scars to show. Back with the streets I know. Will never take me anywhere but here.

Teardrops from My Eyes Ruth Brown

Down in Mexicali There's a crazy little place that I know Where the drinks are hotter than the chili sauce And the boss is a cat named Joe He wears a red bandana, plays a blues pianna In a honky-tonk

Mickeys Monkey The Miracles

MICKEY'S MONKEY The Miracles Alright, is everybody ready Alright now, here we go A one, a two, a one, two, three, four Lum de Lum de la iiiiii, (Lum de Lum de la iiiiii,) ( Lum de Lum de la

Willie Cat Power

once in his mind And his cry out saved his own life The second time was through his heart The doctors pulled the bullet from inside He had a job to do he said That's his way of life Please don't

RICH PLEA

billionaires who can fuck the millionaires spending money everyday i want some rolex like the rappers and i want my body guards to keep me safe i want ''a'' private jet and yacht to sail i just wanna

BURGER & FRIES PLEA

when i get my coffee i always need cookies When pizza gets here, if there is no pickle, i might get mad sorry for iPhone without cases in that case 'im out' like cars and the roads or rachael and ross