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The Future of Our Kind
01:52
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The art world is dark, the embers and sparks
Are lighting up the exit way as you disembark
You take a last look with upstaged eyes
You only have the power that your title implies
I was a delegate at a meeting of the minds
And I came out worried for the future of our kind.
Well I can tell when something's done well
It's got a certain sound and a certain smell
So hoist up the sails, and lift off the veils
I'm gonna show you all what this provision entails
I was a delegate at a meeting of the minds
And I came out worried for the future of our kind.
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Driving out in the country with a girl I met outside
Her hand was folded over mine
It's hard to imagine, with all the medicine on your mind
But I can't help it if I feel fine.
Back in Toronto, motherfuckers watch our style
Scribbling in notebooks all the while
They try to envision what it's like to be on our side
I don't think they should even try.
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Rear Projection
01:26
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Je t'connaissais quand t'étais tout petit
Pleure comme un enfant, je t'ai vu ainsi
J'ai vu des choses que tu n'as jamais vu
Je te l'ai dit, mais tu ne m'as pas cru
Quand tu t'en vas, n'oublie moi pas
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Big City Girls
01:43
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Big city girls have a mixed effect on me
What kind of woman do you figure you will turn out to be?
Two types of person have wandered through my door
One kind comes back often, and the other comes no more
In some ways, I like it better than before.
Standing by the rolling waters,
Mystified, your sons and daughters
Mourn that, while the years kept passing by,
You had to hold on to your hate,
The everlasting hate, the malleable hate.
Big city girls have a strange philosophy
Too many people try to make you think that they hold the key.
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Hauteur Theory
02:00
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Summer kids they run all wild
They strut and preen through fall and winter
And you can't dispute their style
The logic bends, distorts and splinters
Oh, I got functioning eyes, but I failed to see
That the ones who'd get ahead were them instead of me.
Oh, as a matter of fact, I invented pain
If you don't want to draw blood, don't shave against the grain.
All the kids have gone and grown
(or so they claim to folks and mirrors)
But the attributes they've shown
Have blossomed, bloomed and can't be clearer
Oh, if you're torn up inside, don't appeal to me
You're the one who lived your life by the wrong philosophy.
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I got a note from the highest bidder
He wants to know what he's bidding for
He threatens me with legal muscle
Even greater than before
I was advised just to do my own thing
Masochists are welcome to try
They said I can't set up in the market
Cause they don't know what I supply.
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Maledictory Address
01:49
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Life is a bitch, when it's over you die
And never mind what people will tell you
Nobody knows what this ending implies
Except for the folks with a snake oil to sell you
Most people choose just to lead "normal" lives -
A home and a job - not you, you know better
Seems like those folks are all empty inside
So choose Option B, for sure, but just remember:
Don't get played for a fool
Every game has its rules
And they are enforced, no matter what people say
They say not to conform
To what they see as the norm
But they got norms of their own that must be obeyed
Well some people follow, and some people lead
Hey that's how it is, and no one can change it
Maybe we want to, and maybe we need
But just watch your step when you're stepping in strange shit
Stay far away from the flakes and the frauds
Trust how you feel, as much as you're able
Don't just be part of someone's entourage
Find your own dish to bring to the table.
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All in Time
02:23
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Oh the world seems to weigh down too much for my taste
We should turn back the clock, for it seems such a waste
But don't worry, just close your eyes
We can do just so much for our size
Hunker down and plug away
I don't know how, but we'll find some way
All in time
I can wipe off your tears, but it's all right to weep
Put your breast on my back, we can float off to sleep
We can trip, but let's try not to fall
We just have to look forward is all
In our little corner, we'll keep on plugging away
I don't know how, but we'll find some way
All in time.
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I recall a fruitless search, a bandit's maid, a parrot's perch
A misdirected frantic lurch toward some obscene goal
Your father spoke the words to me: you see the way you want to see,
You cast aside the recipe, the dish destroyed the bowl.
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Automatic gut reflex refusal of the stats upon a quick perusal
of these: the trans-Atlantic breeze, the verb, the clause, the noun
Straight for tomorrow's sound, your luck's gonna turn around
I never have known any real kind of pain
But I'm complaining all the same
Oh leave it alone, I could explain
But then it wouldn't be the same.
Fisticuffs out in the frozen garden
Just a year now, but the trade has hardened me.
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It Won't Work
02:37
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When you prostitute yourself out for free
They'll get what they paid for, just you wait and see
Batten down the hatches, break down all the doors
Let's make Hollywood worth dying for!
So do your thing, go where you go
But deep inside, I know you know:
It won't work
But it's hard to know the policy
You can't express it in front of me
Well it's hard to know just how to feel
I can taste success, and it tastes surreal.
I know you know.......
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The Wagoner's Lad
02:18
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The World Provider Montréal, Québec
The World Provider has been providing synth rock, anthemic pop and theatrical spectacle to the masses since 1999.
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Every once in a while people ask me what my favourite Montreal bands are. These guys are #1 with me right now for sure. It's lo-fi rock, great songwriting and the live show is awesome.
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