The north wind sinks the fence around a lot full of debris Near the corner of Memorial and me Where resurrected brick and drywall lead back into place There's a terrified reflection on my face All alone at the gleaming knife display at the army surplus sales As the dusk descends and my inspiration fails Ghost-filled discount parkas, sleeping bags Peer at me from the crumpled dark Inky bruises punched into the sky by bolts of light And then leak across the body of tonight While rain and thunder drop and roll then stop short of a storm Leave the air stuck with this waiting to be born As I stand before an unresponsive automatic door Just another door that won't open for me anymore The exit red gets brighter then blinks off Presses me into the crumpled dark There's a billboard by the highway That says welcome to (Bienvenue à) But no sign to show you when you go away And our demolitions punctuate All we mean to save then leave too late So I make my shaky exclamation mark With a hand full of The crumpled dark
John says the reason he wrote this song was that Winnipeg changed their slogan from "One Great City!" to "Heart of the Continent", so he took the picking pattern from One Great City and modified it a bit to create Heart of the Continent
The north wind sinks the fence around a lot full of debris
Near the corner of Memorial and me
Where resurrected brick and drywall lead back into place
There's a terrified reflection on my face
All alone at the gleaming knife display at the army surplus sales
As the dusk descends and my inspiration fails
Ghost-filled discount parkas, sleeping bags
Peer at me from the crumpled dark
Inky bruises punched into the sky by bolts of light
And then leak across the body of tonight
While rain and thunder drop and roll then stop short of a storm
Leave the air stuck with this waiting to be born
As I stand before an unresponsive automatic door
Just another door that won't open for me anymore
The exit red gets brighter then blinks off
Presses me into the crumpled dark
There's a billboard by the highway
That says welcome to
(Bienvenue à)
But no sign to show you when you go away
And our demolitions punctuate
All we mean to save then leave too late
So I make my shaky exclamation mark
With a hand full of
The crumpled dark
I saw him sing this song live, a-m-a-z-i-n-g!
10 to 6 and 9 to five, trying, dying to survive, never knowing what survival means
leave the apartment to by alcohol...
The beginning sounds like One great City
+Avishek Acharya it's really simmer in the picking pattern, the capo is up higher though
John says the reason he wrote this song was that Winnipeg changed their slogan from "One Great City!" to "Heart of the Continent", so he took the picking pattern from One Great City and modified it a bit to create Heart of the Continent
It's kind of a spiritual sequel. All the songs about lost buildings and the north end seem musically connected.
Hi Dani!
Also, the game.
GODDAMMIT
one isn't safe anywhere
Damn.