Greasy jungle metropolis noirEasy tangles the easiest so farAhI drove down your roadto Hazeldean where I tastedyour funeral home’s sandwiches and coffeeI saw your hands melt into one anotherI saw you grieve and growcare a lot about one anotherI stood at your sinkand I felt your warm waterI washed your dishesand I looked out your […]
Tag Archives: The Tragically Hip
She Didn't Know
orn a queen up on her side, and she felt it too.there’s a lot you can see when there’s nothing to doshe got down on her knees and she dug herself outslipping to the east side and prancing about. learn a language baby, it’s that kind of placelow card is hunger and high card is […]
All Canadian Surf Club
Well there’s a rockin’ little spotNext to the Regent TheatreAnd if you wanna make the sceneYou’ll make it sooner or laterYou’re really hanging with the crowd You know the ins and the outs hereAll Canadian Surf ClubDenim jackets and long hair Well we’re rocking to the beachWatch the waves as they roll thereI meant I […]
Putting Down
Held a bird’s egg between her breaststhere’s reasons for the road, I guessto document the indigenous,to paint and sketchpaint and sketchI’m starting to fail to be impressed. United state of ricochetfrom the boardwalk to the Appian waythe diamond files, the corporate ravesyou’d practically killnot to be afraidand I’m staring to chokeon the things I say […]
Killing Time
I need your confidence need to know you’re minewhen it gets right downto the killing timeI know you’re heart is badbut it’s all I’ve ever hadwe can live our lives on this righteous crimeI got kicked when I was downand a sailor took my girl to townthen she licked my woundswith the sea dog’s saltI […]
Cordelia
Angst on the planks, spittin from a bridgeJust to see how far down it really isRobbing a bank, jumping on a trainOld antiques a man alone can entertain It takes all of your powerTo prove that you don’t careI’m not Cordelia. I will not be there. Tin can man, dragging from a carJust to see […]
Chagrin Falls
By design by neglect For a fact or just for effect When they met where they connect At the confluence of travel and sex More a trip than a quest Plunged into the deeply freckled breast Where to now? If I had to guess I’m afraid to say Antarctica’s next or Chagrin Falls, Ohio Where […]
Emperor Penguin
I like the tone of your trumpet C’mon let’s spill some paint Let’s raise a glass of milk to the end of another day And to the kiss that’s still intangible The kids are alright just unmanageable They won’t do a damn thing you say Your voice is all detached on a radio-wave breeze We […]