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Old Dreams
04:01
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Old dreams fading away, young hearts come out to play. All I need is the wolves at bay, I’m all alone here. Young hearts too wild to be kind, tired hearts scattering blind. All I need is a piece of mind, I’m all alone here.
Oh, you wouldn’t believe all the words I’ve woven, strangled in their cribs before they’re spoken. Oh, you and me, we might not ever agree. But I hope you’ll see: the spirits and the ghosts don’t mind if we take our time.
Young hearts that couldn’t be sunk, old dreams buried in junk. All I need is a silent punk, I’m all alone here. Young dreams sailing out to sea, old thoughts recurring to me. All I need is a way to be, I’m all alone here.
I might have thought I’d find an answer in a song. But if I thought that, I was wrong.
Oh, you wouldn’t believe all the time I’ve taken, setting myself right since I was shaken. Oh, I’m not sure how much more I can endure. But my dreams are pure: I only want a connection to someone.
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Everything
02:54
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Everything I longed for is a deflated basketball
Everything I fought for is what I hated after all
I’m a prehistoric fossil, washed up on the beach
I’m just trying to tell myself, once more into the breach
But
everything that I created is an illusion in the end
They said to fake it till I made it, I was too stupid to pretend
And now I got despair locked in a cage, darkness on a leash
I’m just trying to sell myself a motivating speech
But
don’t you remember being young?
I do, and the feeling every song we’d sung was new
I thought I knew everything
But what I didn’t know
was how to treat someone so they won’t go
and crush your heart into a hundred thousand pieces
Leaving you unsure if you even belong in this species
But
don’t you remember being young?
I do, and now I feel like every string’s unstrung anew.
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She Goes
01:44
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Suckers to the side say she goes
Bastards in the back say she goes
Fuckers in the front say she goes
Acting like they know what they don’t know
They say she goes
Suckers step aside, there she goes
Bastards take it back, there she goes
Fuckers don’t you front, there she goes
Get it straight, or act like you know
’Cause there she goes.
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Nightfall
02:34
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There’s fun, and then there’s the fun
of ruining other people’s fun
When it comes to that, you won
Nightfall, streetlight, silvery moon
I’m coming soon, I’m coming home soon
A creature crawling from a wretched lagoon
I’m coming soon
There’s pain, and then there’s the pain
of taking on other people’s pain
When it comes to that, I’m insane
You’re so mean, my love’s in vain
I can’t go on, I won’t stay sane
Stones in my backpack, water in my shoes
Once again you win and I lose
Nightfall, streetlight, silvery moon
I’m coming soon, I’m coming home soon
You pay the piper, I’ll call the tune
I’m coming soon.
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CEO
04:06
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When the snot-nosed CEO makes the empty promises
When he weaves his weaselly web, don’t believe a word he says
When he tries to monetize all the things we cannot know
When the empty promises make the snot-nosed CEO.
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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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