Lyrics: Sounds Familiar Album: Fallow Artist: Weakerthans, The   We emerged from youth all wide-eyed like the rest. Shedding skin faster than skin can grow, and armed with hammers, feathers, blunt knives: words, to meet and to define and to……

Lyrics: Illustrated Bible Stories for Children Album: Fallow Artist: Weakerthans, The   Morning bright, rise. Go over your lines. Iron your carefully crafted disguise. We’d all like to sing. It’s easy to sigh; to sprinkle a handful or plausible lies….

Lyrics: Diagnosis Album: Fallow Artist: Weakerthans, The   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…

Lyrics: Letter of Resignation Album: Fallow Artist: Weakerthans, The   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…

Lyrics: None Of The Above Album: Fallow Artist: Weakerthans, The   All night restaurant, Norh Kildonan. Luke warm coffee tastes like soap. I trace you outline in spilled sugar, killing time and killing hope. This brand new strip mall chews…

Lyrics: Greatest Hits Collection Album: Fallow Artist: Weakerthans, The   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. I’ve got these threads of you and…

Lyrics: Leash Album: Fallow Artist: Weakerthans, The   Had one of those days when you want to try heroin, drunk driving, some form of soft suicide. Sitting in silence and staring at ceilings or peeling the paint off of things…