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It's The Way I Am
03:58
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Welcome to the metroland
The only shoes in my size
I forgot where the people live
So I just take photos of skies
I studied for it already
I studied for it oh, yeah
It’s the way I am
Welcome to the metroland
There were no shoes in my size
But I found out where the people lived
And I took photos where they died
It’s the way I am
Welcome to the metroland
I found some shoes at my side
I had to count almost every one
And take my photos at night
I studied for it already
I studied for it oh, yeah
It’s the way I am
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Shave Your Chest
04:05
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When your heart stops
They will shave your chest
When your watch stops
They will do the rest
When the world is a thing that you don’t know about
What you put in, is what you take out
When your heart stops
They will shave your chest
Let’s make this simple and there won’t be a fuss
The furry temples are devoted to us
We came in here to write someone’s name
But instead we find the county’s to blame
Won’t be no fairy dust
Won’t be a revenge
Just tell the waiter that we’ll sit with our friends
Let’s make this simple and there won’t be a fuss
The furry temples are devoted to us
When your heart stops
They will shave your chest
When your watch stops
They will do the rest
You’re keeping secrets from me
You keep them all on this phone
You keep them all on this phone
You’re keeping photos from me
You keep them all on this phone
You keep them all on this phone
When your heart stops
(You’re keeping secrets from me)
They will shave your chest
(You’re keeping secrets from me)
When your watch stops
(You’re keeping secrets from me)
They will do the rest
When life is a thing that you don’t know about
What you put in, is what you take out
When your heart stops
(You’re keeping secrets from me)
They will shave your chest
(You’re keeping secrets from me)
You keep them all on this phone
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The Rope Bridge
02:51
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Sometimes you just have to say so
Doesn’t mean you’re a failure
All the lies goes on and on
And she’s gone
And you’ve killed a part of her
Sometimes you just have face it
Doesn’t mean you’re a coward
And all the fear just goes on and on
It’s not gone
And you’ve learned nothing from it
If you’re thinking of leaving
It doesn’t mean you’re a blind man
The sun is gone, and it’s gone
And it’s dark till it’s dawn and you know that you love her
Sometimes you have to look down there
It doesn’t mean you’ll fall
Span across your weakness
Like a rope bridge to the rest of the world
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I found it two feet from the road
There’s hair
He’s a big one
I got set up in view of the road
There’s cameras
You reap what you sow
I saw you walking
You’re on the lawns now
I heard you talking
My heart is pumping!
The seer seeing
Under my nose
I’m halfway through a can of SpaghettiOs
You left it two feet from the road
I saw it
I saw you go home
You got busted
It’s a big one
There’s cameras
You reap what you sow
I saw you walking
You’re on the lawns now
I heard you talking
My heart is pumping!
The seer seeing
Under my nose
I’m halfway through a can of SpaghettiOs
I found it
Two feet from the road
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Tennis Racket Kramer
02:43
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It’s so easy
You don’t have a guitar
A little lazy
Tennis racket’s close enough
It’s hard to be the one
Imagine being stunned by yourself
It’s so easy
A tennis racket’s close enough
You look crazy
Letter opener whammy bar
It’s hard to be the one
Imagine being stunned by yourself
It’s so easy
Playing Panama guitars
Singing freely
Ain’t Talkin’ ’Bout Love
It’s hard to be the one
Imagine being stunned by yourself
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6. |
Somewhere By The Water
05:04
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Go back to the 80s and rescue the babies
No matter what else you do
Upstream from the crazies
Next house to the lazies
No matter what you do
You’re already fading
So long you’ve been aging
You’re already fading
No matter what you do
Somewhere by the water
You will lay down
Somewhere by the water
That’s a good idea
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Once I saw you, once I saw you move
The way you handle your cue
There’s nobody new
In Drummondville
No one who looks like you
Lets’s hit the road
Let’s hit it soon
Me, my son and you
We’ll take a buddy of his
We’ll go at noon
Me and us and you
Me and us and you
My lover is deranged
Driving to La Peche in opposing lanes
I’ll never be the same
Driving to La Peche in opposing lanes
More water and less rain
Driving to La Peche in opposing lanes
I’ll never be the same
Driving to La Peche in opposing lanes
At the graveyard to see your dad
Strangest day I’ve had
And from the cops you flee
To the furious bees
To the furious bees
Driving to La Peche in opposing lanes
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Let The Holy Guest Wait
04:46
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Down the hall where we watched you roll away
Let the holy guest wait
In the room so bright with a view of legs
Let the holy guest wait
There’s still time
Use it well
Stay up late
Make the holy guest wait
I never saw the back of your hand
All those years
At house above the frozen waves
Let the holy guest wait
What lies in store
We know our fate
Let the holy guest wait
I never saw the back of your hand
All those years
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Out in the drift
6,800
Crammed in the lift
Hanging above it
Centre of the Earth
Stuck inside
The world is hollow, I touched the sky
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Echolette
05:08
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Echolette!
You expect me to stay in the right world
You forget
There was no special effort involved
Pirouette
Don’t expect me to stay in the right world
You forget
The next is the best of them all
So small
There’s a ways to go
This is so hard
I wish you’d know
A place to go
Where the heat’s on
I’ve nothing to show
Put the faders up
And the lights off
And leave it all off
Echolette!
I carved a space for your face in the right world
But I forget
Is it two or is it three that’s the charm?
There’s a ways to go
This is so hard
I wish you’d know
A place to go
Where the heat’s on
I’ve nothing to show
Put the faders up
And the lights off
And leave it all off
Echolette!
You expect me to stay in the right world
You forget
There was no special effort involved
Pirouette
The next is the best of them all
There’s a ways to go
This is so hard
I wish you’d know
A place to go
Where the heat’s on
And leave it all on
Echolette!
You expect me to stay in the right world
You forget
There was no special effort involved
Pirouette
I carved a space for your face in the right world
But I forget
Is it two or is it three that’s the charm?
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Ivory Snow
03:15
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You and me
We seem alright
The purity
Is so high
What we know and what we like
A box of this
And we’re so white
Ivory Snow
If you knew what I know
What I know
You and me
We seem alright
The purity
Is so high
The Green Door
And what’s ahead
A box of this, my mother said
Ivory Snow
If you knew what I know
What I know
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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.
Area Resident recommends:
Instant Holiday Album
by Jim Bryson
What I aspire to, currently
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My musical kin since I was a teenager and before.
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