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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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…