Lyrics: Watermark Album: Left and Leaving Artist: Weakerthans, The   i count to three and grin you smile and let me in we sit and watch the wall – you painted purple speech will spill on space our little cups…

Lyrics: This is a Fire Door – Never Leave Open Album: Left and Leaving Artist: Weakerthans, The   Headlights race towards the corner of the dining room. Half illuminate a face before they disappear. You breathe in forty years of…

Lyrics: Without Mythologies Album: Left and Leaving Artist: Weakerthans, The   A soft breeze with the slippery concrete black and full of muddy slush, contrasting with the hoarfrost, clean and hung on a tunnel of silent shivering trees (the ones…

Lyrics: My Favorite Chords Album: Left and Leaving Artist: Weakerthans, The   They’re tearing up streets again. They’re building a new hotel. The Mayor’s out killing kids to keep taxes down, and me and my anger sit folding a paper…

Lyrics: Slips and Tangles Album: Left and Leaving Artist: Weakerthans, The   we’re rolling neon lights and slinking purple skies squeeze out soft regrets from all our lives as i greet another door that opens in to that place that…

Lyrics: Elegy for Elsabet Album: Left and Leaving Artist: Weakerthans, The   So the fields are stubble, the garden is done where the scary scarecrow stands and sees her holding up horizons with her hands. She’s so tired of reading…

Lyrics: Pamphleteer Album: Left and Leaving Artist: Weakerthans, The   im standing on this corner cant get their attention facing rush hour faces turned around i clutch my stack of paper, press one to a chest then watch it swoop…

Lyrics: Exiles Among You Album: Left and Leaving Artist: Weakerthans, The   Her body is a difficult sister, and she loves her, and hides her somewhere in herself safe from harm. She’s barely coasting into a paycheque, stuck on empty….