Lyrics

[suki]

guys put all FF lyrics here..... and i'll start


library

I I I I
Will burn, burn, burn
my every book

I I I I
Will burn, burn, burn
my every book

To warm your cold, cold blood

I I I I
Will burn, burn, burn
my every book

To warm your cold, cold blood

I I I I

Goodbye
Goodbye childcare/drunken doctor
Goodbye Finnish beauty
Let the people stop and wonder

anna gerald henry waugh
Let this longing retire
I will purge my shelf of classics
Watch them fade upon the fire

I I I I
Will burn, burn, burn
my every book

To warm your cold, cold blood

I I I I
Will burn, burn, burn
my every book

To warm your cold, cold blood

I I I I
Will burn, burn, burn
my every book

to warm your cold cold blood
to warm your cold cold blood
to warm your cold cold blood
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in this song
is he singing for a girl or a boy ?

[suki]

someone try to put lyrics for

spell for a weak heart
what do you think will happen next
peach plum pear

i mean songs like those...not in the album

[karpe]

They all already exist. IN posts past:

Ctrl C, Ctrl V!

1. NONE OF YOU WILL EVER SEE A PENNY

Son, son, we’ve got to run away from inheritance
Son, son, I must allow you to learn of sustinance
None of you will ever see a penny of my ill-begotten wealth
Stick around, you will see a rich man cry

I wish, I wish for you a lifetime of labour
Hard days make peaceful nights

2. THIS IS THE DREAM OF WIN & REGINE

Crown myself the Prince of Buzz!

Can’t wait until you unsubscribe
I’ll be a lonely scribe
But what if they like it and lock us in a cannery with your accordion
Until we can our love?

We can get along!
We can get along!
Montreal might eat its young
But Montreal won’t break us down

Now I got a VCR
If we put our hearts in 20,000 tiny jars
They’d never leave their homes

I tried and tried and tried and tried
And tried and tried to keep the crowds away!!

3. YOUR LIGHT IS SPENT

Do not offer me a contract, I got no use for a house by the sea
All I ask for is a warm body to keep this winter from killing me

Every time you close your eyes and lie still
You look just like a dead, dead man
Dead man, dead man, I’ll sing your story
Dead man, come to live again

You scan the skies for signs of heaven
Heaven?!? What use has heaven for you-hoo-hoo?
Spent your time instead, spend your time with us!

4. FURNITURE

Try, try, try to arrange me
But there’s no romance in my blood
Try, try, you’ll never persuade me
My only tears fall with the rain

My father had a dozen wives and a child by every one
I am from, ummmm, about #5
(So don’t expect me to stay with anyone)

My mother never takes a break from her pining after furniture
Every moment on her feet is torture
And I share her love of wine and cake
And taking advantage of amateurs, whee!

5. THE CN TOWER BELONGS TO THE DEAD

We, The Dead, find a country road
Country road, lead the Dead from our homes to the ground
Keep a book of the maggots our bodies will snare
'Cause the earth is just earth, no need to travel in the air

The CN Tower is built upon our bones!
The CN Tower will always be our home!

Decorate round the base all the graves of our lost loves
With cabbages, ginger root and a crucifix

Never rode on the plains, never thought I couldn’t stay
Had a good run anyway, had a good run anyway
I could fill up the lake with all the things I didn’t say
Had a good run anyway, had a good run anyway

(From the top of the tower, radio buzz in our ears
We can see your house from here, we can see your house from here...)

6. TOOK YOU TWO YEARS TO WIN MY HEART

Took you two years to win my heart
And two words to break it
The love you ignited, you fire-fighted
You roared bellowing into a rainy night

They say heartbreak is good for the skin
But all that it’s helped is my drinking
Picking fights with myself and my friends
And their friends threatening to do me in

Took you two years to win my heart
And two words to break it
More surprising than two years of plying
Is how people let you get away with it

Those Saturday sleep-ins with no distractions
Summer sun and songbirds
Once kept afloat by the popular vote
Now blotted out by those two words

(Mighty Leon, wind the tape, but be sure of one thing
Every song from a heart this mangled
Will be draped in strings, strings, strings...)

7. THE CHRONICLES OF SARNIA

I had to hide myself in a book to keep your love away
The pages worn with all of my faults, the cover torn away

I gave my life to the Water God for an apprenticeship
Answering the mail and his door, for nyads, hyppogryphs
After Midwinter Banquet, he shook his head, “Sadly, no,
I can reverse the river’s flow, but I can never send you home.”

I had to hide myself in a book to keep your love away
When you read me, I get to look back at my younger days

8. --->

Doll I love you but sometimes I need a day off
Don’t get that facelift as a result
Don’t you mind, you can take one too
Don’t you mind, don’t you mind

9. ADVENTURE.EXE

Hey yo yo yo yo yo yo
I need an empire to overthrow
You make me wish for a more dangerous life
So I can show you bout self-sacrifice

Oh yes yes yes yes yes yes
Say no no no to a natural death
I’d rather give my life to god-as-man
Than have to line up at the bank again

Oh you you you you you you
If you only knew the lengths I’d go to
You’d pack away all your ballpoint pens
And take a plane back to the Philippines

10. LIBRARY

I, I, I, I will burn burn burn my every book
I, I, I, I will burn burn burn my every book
To warm your cold, cold blood

Goodbye fascist blind man
Goodbye drunken doctor
Goodbye Finnish beauty
Let the people stop and wonder

Anna, Gerald, J. Henry Waugh
Let this longing retire
I will purge my shelf of classics
Watch them fade upon the fire

11. THAT’S WHEN THE AUDIENCE DIED

Fascinated with the underclass
She broke down and decided to act

For every new baby: Investment! Investment!
And for every whore: Relief!
No matter a drunkard, a swineherd, a Spaniard
We’re all treated equally

Canada! Canada-dee-doo-dee-dah!
Let her keep a memento
She has not been able to sleep
Since the days of Trudeau

On music! On painting!
Distract us with drawing and don’t let the audience die!
Watch Alice get better and Peggy get stronger
They’ll still publish once in a while

12. LEARN TO KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT, OWEN PALLETT

All that she wants is a man with a tan
A mashing pot and matching pan
A minivan
As high an income as she can
Who are you to judge?

13. AN ARROW IN THE SIDE OF FINAL FANTASY

Drought’s been hard and the cows are all slaughtered
But my love for you needs no water
You miss your youth, and you miss the city
But have no regret, have no pity

Smoke blows thick and turns midday to midnight
But my love for you needs no sunlight
Don’t be saddened, just look around love
All things shining! All things shining!

14. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

Ask yourself ---> are you a slut?
(No you’re not!)
Did you forget how much you are worth?
(It’s a lot!)
Do you remember when we used to do it all for free?

Your head is shouting: Please please please!
Don’t let your cock do all the work!

Where did you bottle up the gentleman, the gentleman?
Give me your hands! Give me your hands!

You are like a shut-in on the prowl
Every day is like your first night off
(Since your bail!)
But we will never write you off

Your head is shouting: Please please please!
Don’t let your cock do all the work!
All those around you: Please please please!
What can you do to shut us up?

(But we will never write you off, we will never write you off!)

15. BETTER THAN WORSE

Twice was enough, third would be an insult to my condition
Dime in the rough, you see opportunity, I see apparitions
Changing my mind is not so incredible, I do it all the time
Better than worse is free from the curse
And when I came to, it all felt rehearsed
Better than worse is free from the curse
And when I came to, it had all been reversed

16. THE SEA

I waded out too far, lost sight of the shore
Sunk beneath the surface, I closed my eyes

The undertow would take me out
The waves take me home
I went limp and I let the sea decide

Gentle listener, THIS IS WHY I SING:
Confusion!
(Sweet confusion, you’ll be my only child)

AND:

Bonus material!

1. SPELL FOR A WEAK HEART

My mother's name is Anger
She's gonna lay the danger
She's gonna drink to F. A. S.
A weakling heart is in my chest

Hard for a weakling heart!
Hard for a wicked heart to keep a face on it!

We had our health about a week
But sickness comes to the weak
And we got cancer from our showerheads
And we got cancer from the ground
And cancer put us in the ground
And cancer grew up from our flowerbeds

2. WHAT DO YOU THINK WILL HAPPEN NEXT?

Your man is calling from up above!
He says you'll never find someone to love
And if you let the heirarchy tax your sex
What do you think will happen next?

It's a road, it's a road, it's for the roads
It's a rat, it's a rat, it's for the rats

Ooooo and how much can you smoke?
Ooooo when they tax your cigarettes?
Ooooo and how will you get laid?
Ooooo when you're limp, when your limpness gets your Masters paid?

Put your lips to my ear, turn your scream to a shout: YES I CAN!
It's gonna be a bright, bright sunshiney day!

3. MANY LIVES ---> 49 MP

Hey, Timothy
I wish for clairvoyance
I wanna see my wife and kids
And how I would live, and how I would die

It's out of fright, it's self-absorption
I wanna learn from my mistakes
Before they can scare me away from the drugs

"I picture a man who misses his father
He never learned to cook for himself
And spends all his time on his waistline

"I picture a man who lives in the past
He keeps a book of photographs
Of his younger, clairvoyant self!"

(Son! You should invest!)

4. THE MINER BECOMES FORGETFUL

What of a war? There was a war?
Didn't it threaten to bewetten us in our beds?
Brother, if it did--and it did--we should pat our backs for selling all our papers

And paperless, we killed the storm by standing underneath an eavestrough
My heart is full, my heart is still
And it would take more than a foggy mind to drown it.

Ummmm, errrrr....

Oh memory, all ears and eyes
Preserving, pruning, preening every leaf of every lie
It's not your fault, it's not my fault, if every fault should find its way into our suppers

Ummmmm, errrrr.... luminum, aluminum, aluminimium, luminumaluminimium!

Then there's your face! It's brown and bold!
See? How a miner can forget about his veins of gold?
And how the ground smiles so hungrily at our bones?

5. HEY, DAD!

Hey, Dad, I've been floating down the river
To the place you retired to
Away from the women who despise you
I've been sad, 'cause all my friends resent me
But I got a plan for a miracle!
I'll shit it out and put it on the table

"Dear Son, should I be a proud one?
I saw what you said on the telly
You made your mother sound so silly
How is my offspring so pretentious?
Your art is lazy, trite and schlocky
I should've sent you out for hockey."



and the he poos clouds lyrics got deleted.
But they're in the album itself.

[noseovertail]

Anybody have lyrics for the new song he's been playing?

[liederling]

You mean "All That They Knew;" with the carriages/cottages/cabbages? Not yet, still trying.

Did anybody ever figure the lyrics for "Honour the Dead or Else?" (might have missed it- I only started lurking here about Mar-05)