Lyrics: Prescience of dawn Album: Reconstruction Site Artist: Weakerthans, The   The sirens woke me up again I know their coming for me someday, just a matter of when Count to 25 and yawn Touch the clock and turn my…

Lyrics: Time’s Arrow Album: Reconstruction Site Artist: Weakerthans, The   ("Smoke falls. Things are created in the violence of fire." – Martin Amis) So you watch the sunrise sinking, and she’s talking in her sleep. A dream of how alone…

Lyrics: A New Name for Everything Album: Reconstruction Site Artist: Weakerthans, The   When the bus-shelter windows and napkin-dispensers surprise with distorted reflections, it’s never the someone you’re hoping to recognize. When the rent is too high living here between…

Lyrics: The Reasons Album: Reconstruction Site Artist: Weakerthans, The   How I don’t know how to sing, I can barely play this thing, But you never seem to mind, And you tell me to fuck off, When I need somebody…

Lyrics: Reconstruction Site Album: Reconstruction Site Artist: Weakerthans, The   Well I’m lost, I’m afraid, Rope tied down to a leaky boat, To the roof of a car on a road in the dark and it’s snowing. If I’m more,…

Lyrics: (Past Due) Album: Reconstruction Site Artist: Weakerthans, The   February always finds you folding local papers open to the faces "passed away," to wonder what they’re holding in those hands we’re never shown. The places formal photographs refuse to…

Lyrics: Plea From a Cat Named Virtue Album: Reconstruction Site Artist: Weakerthans, The   Why don’t you ever want to play? I’m tired of this piece of string. You sleep as much as i do now, and you don’t eat…