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Riverside (live)
03:06
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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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I Save Cigarette Butts
03:01
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I save cigarette butts for a poor girl
Across town
We were making marriage plans
And someone came over and took her to
A wrestling match
Well, later that evening
Frankenstein and the beauty queen
Sat thumbing through a Better Homes & Gardens magazine
Making plans and holding hands
And along came a spider that sat down beside her and took her to
A wrestling match
A had a dream about these angels --
I had a dream the other night
It was really weird
They were playing guitars, and getting loud
And they spilled beer on Jesus
I save cigarette butts for a poor girl
Across town
I spend a lot of money at the pizza shop
Just to watch the waitress walk
Back & forth
I save cigarette butts for a poor girl
Across town
I went over to see her at her house
And there she was, it was her and him
They was having a wrestling match
I save cigarette butts for a poor girl
Across town
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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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Viscount I
03:37
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It's hunting season, I see no reason
To be at school all alone
I got my hand out for the handout
A pack of Viscount I
For all your trouble, there on the double
I got a lighter too!
They're long & skinny
They're Top Jimmy
You got nothing to lose
Make sure to cover all the holes
And suck that smoke right up your nose
It's hunting season, I see no reason
To be at school all alone
I got my hand out for the handout
A pack of Viscount I
I got my hand out for the handout
A pack of Viscount I
When winter comes
Will you still be alone?
When winter comes
Will someone ever notice you?
Make sure to cover all the holes
And suck that smoke right up your nose
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How To Skate (demo)
02:19
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Sinking feeling at the top of your legs
A frozen porpoise in a freshwater lake
My head is humming and my hands on the make
Guy Lafleur really knew how to skate
I've been up
For so damn long
I just heard the papers come
All night long
All night long
Met a tallboy on the way to beach
Forty seconds then into the breach
Time is flying In Utero and Bleach
Maurice you make me sick when you speak
I've been up
For so damn long
I just heard the papers come
All night long
All night long
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The Prize (demo)
01:42
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Don't ask a Mason to rebrick a thick, evasive red brick wall
And all those decent people trading fear for menace under God
Too bad your microscopic science lost its foothold on the plot
Or how creative people traded in their paradise for lust
Turn in your tax receipts, deceits and measures of your weightless pounds
As far as I'm concerned you burned the kettle reaching for the pot
Cliche society
Mired in high school hyperbole, I
Must have tried a million times, but I
Still can't collect the prize
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Pigs On The Wing
03:44
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If you didn't care what happened to me
And I didn't care for you
We would zigzag our way through the boredom and pain
Occasionally glancing up through the rain
Wondering which of the buggers to blame
And watching for pigs on the wing
You know that I care
What happens to you
And I know that you care
For me too
So I don't feel alone on the weight of the stone
Now that I've found somewhere safe to bury my bone
And any fool knows a dog needs a home
A shelter from pigs on the wing
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Ugly Business (demo)
03:56
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Something stirring emotion surfing
Oceans surely salting Florida
Shady character slowly stalking
Pigeon lady offers up her bench
Underprivileged Tuscan orders
Lonely people wonder what that means
Have a hand in your ugly business
Wash them off and get away from me
Get away from me
Misdirecting traffic signals
Put your hands back upon the wheel
Corsica Sunbird Honda hybrid
Make your turn and get away from me
Have a hand in your ugly business
Wash them off and get away from me
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It's worse than a home
It's worse than appears
It's a plague on us all
It's too bad you're here
But I've been here all along, watching you carrying on
And I've been biding my time
Oh what a farce it is, it is
It's worse in the spring
It's worse than appears
It's a plague in the fall
It's too bad you're here
But I've been here all along, watching you carrying on
And I've been biding my time
Oh what a farce it is, it is
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Quasar
04:44
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Sinking quickly in the deepest of ends
Heart is racing from the panic it sends
No star, the quasar it's only light
Silver fossils in museums of Rome
Wearing gloves because the future is chrome
Stop scuba we all got the bends
Our planet is too hot on the ends
No star, the quasar it's only light
Sinking quickly in the deepest of ends
I don't care if it's the only way out
Yeah
I don't care if it's the only way out
Yeah
I don't care if it's the only way out
Yeah
I don't care if it's the only way out
Yeah
Silver fossils in museums of Rome
Wearing gloves because the future is chrome
Stop scuba we all got the bends
Our planet is too hot on the ends
No star, the quasar it's only light
I don't care if it's the only way out
Yeah
I don't care if it's the only way out
Yeah
I don't care if it's the only way out
Yeah
I don't care if it's the only way out
Yeah
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Getting Stuck (demo)
03:29
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They hardly fake it at all sometimes, the pleasant stuff
It is so contrived
And when it stops
There is no surprise I get stuck
They're saving face when they talk sometimes, the inane stuff
It is so unkind
And when it comes
You just can't deny you've been stuck
Well, I don't want to listen to you
Listen to you now
I don't want to listen to you
Listen to you now
They've got two faces that talk sometimes, that's the bad stuff
It's in overdrive
And when it comes
You'd be almost wise to be stuck
Well, I don't want to listen to you
Listen to you now
I don't want to listen to you
Listen to you now
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In Convulsions (demo)
01:57
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I won't tease you if you say you can't stay
There's no way I could do it anyway
Believe me, this is going to be the day
No excuses in any word that they say
I don't want to see you in convulsions
I don't want to see you in convulsions
And they don't deserve you anyway
I won't leave you if you say I can't stay
There's nowhere I could go anyway
So believe me, this is gonna be the day
No excuses in any word that they say
I don't want to see you in convulsions
I don't want to see you in convulsions
And they don't deserve you anyway
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I'm so far down I'm going sideways
There's so many hours now in my days
But six feet on the surface, they say
Beats six feet underground anyway
I'm hunkered down
In a government town
Infected world surrounds me now
There's so many hours now in my days
I'm so far down I'm going sideways
I'm hunkered down
In a government town
Infected world surrounds me now
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Canopy (live)
05:53
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Neon stars in the wooden sky
A plastic shirt and a silver tie
Elastic fish in the deep, dead sea
And English pound for an ounce of weed
In the canopy
Twisted roads and crooked teeth
Filling suppers and an empty tea
Open concepts and broken minds
Bolts of light through the tallest pines
In the canopy
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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:
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