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Riverside
03:16
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There's no place like home by the riverside
Have your hands touched like ours
Outside ourselves
But will you leave it alone?
Just leave it alone
For once
There's no place like home by the riverside
When you leave and you breathe and you take
All your time
But will you leave it alone?
Just leave it alone
For once
There's no place like home by the riverside
It's so simple to wrinkle the softest
Things you wear
But will you leave it alone?
Just leave it alone
For once
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Pray For Wendell
03:35
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Never would have stayed in that snowy cage
And so you set off
In the freezing fall
There was a heavy crash and freedom in a dash
And then you set off
In a suicide plot
You were lazy
It wasn't easy
I called all of the newspapers when you left
You'll never survive without me
And I told them to search
And to pray
Wendell, you'll never survive without me
Reporters came and made stories in your cage
From where you set off
In the freezing fall
Halloween Day, 2008
Was when you set off
I called all of the newspapers when you left
You'll never survive without me
And I told them to search
And to pray
But you never survived without me
I called all of the newspapers when you left
But you never survived
Without me
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Two Hours To Go
04:12
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You don't have to open up
And it's not up to you
If you don't want to
You don't want to
And you don't have to save up
You don't have to put up the price
If you don't want to
You don't want to
Two hours to go
Your blue eyes will close
It's alright
Go home
You don't have to live it up
You don't have to build it up
If you don't want to
You don't want to
Two hours to go
Your blue eyes will close
It's alright
Go home
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Show No One
03:36
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The bookstore lady is up there
Picking out the fiction, romances and poems
Jean jacket lying on the comic book boxes
Pornography right under our noses
But we don't belong
We don't belong here
We don't belong
We don't belong here
Show no one
The bookstore lady is back there
Picking out the fiction, romances and poems
Backstop leaning on the comic book boxes
Pornography right under our noses
But you don't belong
You don't belong here
You don't belong
You don't belong here
Show no one
You don't belong
You don't belong here
You don't belong
You don't belong here
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Delano
03:28
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Hit & run, Delano -- and anyway, they'll never know
Help yourself to what's left
Save a place, you never know
Oh, make it stop
I found a place on the Biesenthal Road
You can fish whenever you want
And sleep with your shoes on
Like you've never been outside
Hit & run, Delano and anyway it didn't show
Help yourself to what's left
Save your cash, you ever know
Oh, God
Oh, make it stop
Arson comes and fire's out
Knock on doors to spite yourself
Oh, make it stop
I found a place on the Biesenthal Road
You can fish whenever you want
And sleep with your shoes on
Like you've never been outside
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Lanark Double Soaker
02:12
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You got a pick-up full of troubles with you
Put that pick-up full of troubles below
Just sitting on the bench until it's safe to float
Float all your troubles right out
Till it's safe to float your troubles right out
Should take about 20 hours
Well, it's a Lanark double Soaker within
And a Lanark double Soaker without
The cottage in the highlands was the place to stay
But the neighbours saw lights on, look out
I`ll hold your hand
For 20 hours
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Warm It Up First
03:43
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Wanna leave for Jamaica any day now, you know
Just feeling a little bit sore
Wait for me over there by the X-ray machines
There's a bump in the back of my jeans
Got my coat, got my stapler
Come on let's go
And 22 pucks of gold
What are you in for?
I smuggled gold, son
Did you learn something?
You should warm it up first
Peter Doody sent me away to prison in shame
And I swear that Doody's his name
Institution, restitution I showed no shame
And I'm handling all the fame
What are you in for?
I smuggled gold, son
Did you learn something?
You should warm it up first
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Macdonald Park
03:04
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I got a tweet from Angelo
In the lowdown
Macdonald Park has eased off quick
Nicely no
With the hesitation
I don't know, sir
Easing in Macdonald Park
So we did the doing
In the lowdown
Easing in Macdonald Park
... and easing off quick
I got a tweet from Angela
In the lowdown
You can guarantee it quick
Slashed we now
With the hesitation
I don't know, sir
Easing in Macdonald Park
So we did the doing
In the lowdown
Easing in Macdonald Park
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Eight Track Mind
04:57
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You've gone away from this place too long
And disgrace has blessed us so far
Here's nothing to tell the home front
In my words, don't answer
Take your time
I've got an eight track mind
It's like seeing ghosts
All the time
Hold the line
Listen clearly, can you hear me?
Calling you
Fold up the blankets from the sofa
Exhaustion has cursed us so far
Here's something to tell the homefront
In their words, don't follow
Take your time
I've got an eight track mind
It's like seeing ghosts
All the time
Hold the line
Listen clearly, can you hear me?
Calling you
Turn on a night light for us tonight
Darkness has kept us so far
There's nothing to tell the homefront
In your words, don't bother
Take your time
I've got an eight track mind
It's like seeing ghosts
All the time
Hold the line
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It's true
I'm so unloved
And unwell
It's true
And I've been living in this hell
I'm so unloved
I'm making it all up now
Got me living like I'm going away
I'm making it all up now
Got me living like I'm going away
It's true
I'm so unloved
And unwell
It's true
And I've been living in this hell
Because I'm so unloved
From the things that they say
I get the feeling that I'm going away
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Area Resident Ottawa, Ontario
Area Resident is Doug Hempstead. A CBC radio journalist twice-a-day and basement recording artist by night. This is the music he makes, mostly alone.
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