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Uptown
04:18
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Uptown, let's take this uptown
We can be there fast, anytime tonight
Uptown, why don't we go uptown
I can get us in places, putting up a little fight
Uptown, why not come uptown
In a city this size, clearly it takes all kinds
Uptown, can I take you uptown
I can't get there alone, how can I change your mind?
I'm not seeing things the way they want me to see
I'm just being the only way I know how to be
I don't know how to go through the motions
Uptown, everybody's uptown
Some don't know it yet, and some are in denial
Uptown, they come from uptown
And if their style seems strange, they didn't know they was on trial
They're not seeing things the way I want 'em to see
They're just being the only way they know how to be:
taking the long way, leave on the wrong day, do what the song say
Uptown, darling let's go uptown
Hey we can be there fast, anytime tonight
Uptown, why don't we go uptown
I can picture you there, bathing in the awesome light.
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History of Pain
02:22
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There used to be a different way
But it's gone the way of the dodo
They didn't sweep it up in a day
They just chipped it away in slow-mo
We made a mess of it from the start
It didn't go the way that we planned it
Busting heads and trampling hearts
Until nobody left could stand it
It was so easy making a scare
They just pointed to the disaster
They said "You don't wanna end up there,
So you better obey your master"
And then they took us on quite a ride
And it left everybody reeling
But when you're not on the winning side
Then you get left with a hopeless feeling
It isn't easy being the boss?
It's even harder to to all the labour
When we think of slavery's cost
We don't feel the pain of the slaver.
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21 Guns
03:17
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Sun is out, the ice has thawed
It's almost summertime
The girls have shed their winter shells
And it's true they're looking fine
But they're trying too hard, they're trying too hard
Their chests puffed out, never letting down their guard
I sure don't miss that scene I left behind
I hear the siren's call that leads the sailors astray
But I spent so long trying to build this up
I can't just throw it away
Show me around the town to beat
Maybe the site of my defeat
Maybe the weight of all the years
Maybe the thighs brushing my ears
Getting wise, I recognize
There aren't such rigid lines
But you can't just turn around and say
"Oh I just plain changed my mind"
But it's so fucking hard, it's so fucking hard
To twist this game, trying not to show my cards
I don't know if I'll ever get it right
We have the lives we live inside
And the ones that we put on display
But I made a choice many years go
I can't just throw it away, no I won't just throw it away
We're supposed to put childish things aside
And just let life get in the way
But I spent my days chasing this old dream
I can't just throw it away, no I won't just throw it away.
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Gary Sinistre
02:43
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Looking for the one outside, where did he go?
Heard about a speck of pride buried in snow
Never mind the ones inside, they wouldn't know
So don't let 'em know
Stretching out into the sprawl, a treacherous road
Littered with remains of all who've gone for the gold
Even so, the one true call, braver than bold
Will never get old.
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Naked and Craven
02:27
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I went down to the other town, it was quite a site to see
Ten young turks in a circle jerk, or a back-scratching orgy
What a treat for me, to remember why I had to leave:
Because all that self-importance makes the tricks fall out your sleeve
Every guy's gotta compromise, every girl must draw her lines
Synthesize all the warring sides, and try to keep shit anodyne
So I'm killing time, but time is killing me
And it hurts to step up only to be accused of villainy
Cause it ain't no way of living, to be busted all the time
So if they dub me unforgiven, deep down I feel just fine
It's their loss, not mine
That kind of sweetness has an aftertaste of turpentine
Cause the naked and the craven always give it all they can
And their styles are sweetly brazen, but they fail to understand:
The song defines the man
And their fashion sense is molten
And their aphorisms golden
But somebody should have told them:
You gotta make us give a damn.
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City Lovers
02:51
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Our lives are caught up in these markets
Top five, they keep us in the darkness
And the city lovers get pushed farther away
"Survive, and do it just for art's sake"
Top five, they leave us in their fart wake
They're bringing on the heartbreak for the city lovers
Who get pushed farther and farther away
Ooh, no one can think of a way to make it OK
We slay clichés!
Check it once, then you'll put it on replay
Part of it? We're the start of it
- or the ones who've gone and made an art of it
And the city lovers get pushed farther and farther and farther away
Ooh, nobody's stepped up to say "I'll make it OK."
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Tough Signal
02:18
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On a gossamer starcraft floating in space
The aliens muse on the foibles of our tragic race
Invisibly, they came to me
Imparting me analyses
Philosophies, psychologies
Historically, it wouldn't be me
On a deserted island out in the sea
You wave to the skies, but you won't turn around and notice me
Impossibly, you offer me
Analogies and similes
It wouldn't be, it shouldn't be, it couldn't be
It just couldn't be.
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Avalanches
03:00
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I was left at the side of the road
All alone in the bone-chilling cold
I was told not to complain
And I didn't till it started to rain
And the rain penetrated my coat and my boots
And the shoot was delayed
And I stood out in the rain all day
And when you called, screaming and crying
I was appalled, hopelessly trying
To swallow my pride and be kind
Why can't I get you off my mind?
I was hanging around with a crowd
Where the wildest of talk was allowed
And I said a couple of things
That have come back to haunt me in dreams
And my dreams are the dreams
Of a coward trying to hide
From a demon inside
Who has taken away his pride
Avalanches tumbling off the hills
Bury goodness under roiling, bilious mounds
My pathetic vessel drifts in orbit
With nowhere a friend to be found
Why can't I sink into the ground?
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Douce Mélodie
03:43
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Emporte-moi, je t'en supplie
Dans un royaume imaginaire
Laisse-moi me noyer dans l'oubli
Me fondre dans tes yeux
La couleur des beaux cieux
Douce mélodie, la seule qui peut me plaire
Éparpillé, tout seul et triste
Avec ce bon goût sur mes lèvres
Je sais même pas pourquoi j'existe (pauvre innocent)
Mordu par un serpent
Douce mélodie, empêche que je crève
Tout mes jours, ton mon amour
C'est tout pour toi ma chère
Vieux secrets des temps oubliés
Chante-les-moi tout doux comme le vent
Emporte le beau temps
Douce mélodie, enlève ma misère.
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Homeward
03:10
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Loosen up when stars fall
They can spin a pretty tale, but they're all bastards after all
All the foolish thoughts I had when I was small
Ended up amounting to nothing at all
I was only passing by
On a trail of thwarted plans, I met an agent in disguise
Who I couldn't evade no matter what schemes I tried
Lying here awake, my eyes search the ceiling
My heart has no feeling
I don't remember, it was too long ago
Smouldering embers are all that's left of what I used to know
But all the time my eyes were on the road
I couldn't see that I was heading homeward
I've been beckoning in an ever-receding tide
Climbing up a mountain, sliding down the other side
I keep forgetting, my memory's erased
The sun is setting, and casting shadows on those earlier days
But every time I took a step away
I couldn't tell that I was heading homeward
Nobody showed me that I was heading homeward
I couldn't see that I was heading homeward.
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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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