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Now that the furnitures returning to its Goodwill home
With dishes in last weeks papers, rumours and elections, crosswords, an unending war
That blacken our fingers, smear their prints on every door pulled shut
Now that the last months rent is scheming with the damage deposit
Take this moment to decide
If we meant it,... |
Why dont you ever want to play?
Im tired of this piece of string
You sleep as much as I do now
And you dont eat much of anything
I dont know who youre talking to
I made a search through every room
But all I found was dust that moved
In shadows of the afternoon
And listen, about those bitter songs you sing?
Theyre not h... |
My citys still breathing, but barely, its true
Through buildings gone missing like teeth
The sidewalks are watching me think about you
Sparkled with broken glass
Im back with scars to show
Back with the streets I know
Will never take me anywhere but here
The stain in the carpet, this drink in my hand
The strangers whos... |
It had something to do with the rain
Leaching, loamy dirt
And the way the back lane came alive
Half moon whispered, Go
For a while I heard you missing steps in the street
And your anger pleading in an uncertain key
Singing the sound that you found for me
When the winter took the tips of my ears
Found this noisy home
Fu... |
Late afternoon, another day is nearly done
A darker grey is breaking through a lighter one
A thousand sharpened elbows in the underground
That hollow hurried sound, feet on polished floor
And in the dollar store, the clerk is closing up
And counting loonies trying not to say
I hate Winnipeg
The driver checks the mirror... |
Now that the treatment and antidepressants
And seven months sober have built me a bed
In the back of your brain where the memories flicker
And I paw at the synapses, bright bits of string
You should know I am with you, know I forgive you
Know I am proud of the steps that youve made
Know it will never be easy or simple
... |
Measure me in metered lines
And one decisive stare
The time it takes to get from here to there
My ribs that show through t-shirts
And these shoes I got for free
Im unconsoled
Im lonely
I am so much better than I used to be
Terrified of telephones
And shopping malls and knives
Were drowning in the pools of other lives
R... |
Im lost, Im afraid
A frayed rope tying down a leaky boat
To the roof of a car on the road in the dark
And its snowing
If Im more, then it means less
Last call for happiness
Im your dress near the back of your knees
And your slip is showing
Im a float in a summer parade
Up the street in the town that you were born in
Wi... |
Woke up in a parking lot
Air mattresses gone flat
The sun selecting targets for the shadows to attack
So make a visor with your hand
Squint at where youre from
A lonely line of buildings you can block out with your thumb
Salute the way we tried
And no one knows were anywhere were not supposed to be
So stay a while and ... |
Theyre tearing up streets again, theyre building a new hotel
The mayors out killing kids to keep taxes down
And me and my anger sit folding a paper bird
Letting the curtains turn to beating wings
Wish I had a socket-set to dismantle this morning
And just one pair of clean socks and a photo of you
When you get off work ... |
Just one more drink and then I should be on my way home
Im not entirely sure what youre talking about
Ive had a really nice time, but my dogs need to be fed
I must say that in the right light, you look like Shackleton
Comment allez-vous ce soir?
Je suis comme ci comme ça
Yes, a penguin taught me French
Back in Antarcti... |
So your presentation went terrible
All wrong dongles, sweat stains and stares
Leave the TV on with the sound down low in your underwear
Don’t despair you’ll get it right tomorrow night
In Thunder Bay, maybe
Don’t delay, your day is short
You can’t afford to wait
I believe in you and your PowerPoints
I know why you can’... |
On the twenty-first day, the sun didnt hate me
The food wasnt angry, the bed didnt sigh
The ceiling said its possible I might get my looks back
On the twenty-first day of my stay here
On the twenty-first day, I danced to the twelve-step
Examined, admitted Im powerless too
Sang the one about the spring the cat ran away
... |
That hashtag wants me dead, but I dont mind
Its just another way we grieve
For all the times we failed to be the ones
We thought we had the chance to be
And when it gets too complicated
When you cant get to sleep
When the morning seems impossible
Select all, delete
Select all, delete
Select all, delete
And I dont mean ... |
How I dont know how to sing
I can barely play this thing
But you never seem to mind
And you tell me to fuck off
When I need somebody to
How you make me laugh so hard
How whole years refuse to stay
Where we told them to, bad dog
Locked up whining in a word
Or a misplaced souvenier
How the past chews on your shoes
And th... |
Now the lounge is full of farmers for the 7:30 draw
Teammates all left before they had to buy a round
When they pull the 50/50 and Ive lost again, Ill go
Maybe have one more brown one for the snowy road
All the championship banners going yellow on the wall
And my name when it gets closer to last call
So Elvira brings m... |
Headlights race towards the corner of the dining room
And half illuminate a face before they disappear
You breathe in forty years of failing to describe a feeling
I breathe out smoke against a window
Trace the letters in your name
Our letters sound the same
Full of all our changing
That isnt change at all
All straight ... |
Im standing on this corner, cant get their attention
Facing rush hour faces turned around
I clutch my stack of paper, press one to a chest
Then watch it swoop and stutter to the ground
Im weary with right-angles, abbreviated daylight
And waiting for a winter to be done
Why do I still see you in every mirrored window
In... |
My Confusion Corner commuters are cursing the cold away
As December tries to dissemble the length of their working day
And they bite their mitts off to show me transfers, deposit change
And I cant stop finding your face in their faces, all rearranged
And angry like you never were
And I ease us back into traffic
Dusk co... |
The vampire Alberta stalks across the money market rates
Ducks into a Hummer
The vampire Alberta wears a bowtie and a pin that says
Support the arts
The vampire Alberta takes a photo for another slide
In the Powerpoint of all the places he wont remember
The vampire Alberta wipes an oily mouth along a sleeve
Of forest i... |
Garage sale, Saturday – I need to pay
My hearts outstanding bills
A cracked-up compass and a pocket watch
Some plastic daffodils
The cutlery and coffee cups I stole from all-night restaurants
A sense of wonder only slightly used
A year or two to haunt you in the dark
For a phone call from far away
With a Hi, how are yo... |
I count to three and grin, you smile and let me in
We sit and watch the wall you painted purple
Speech will spill on space, our little cups of grace
But pauses rattle on about the way
That you cut that snow-fence, braved the blood, the metal of those hearts
That you always end up pressing your tongue to
How your body s... |
Doctors played your dosage like a card trick
Scrabbled down the hallways yelling ”Yahtzee!”
I brought books on Hopper, and the Arctic
Something called The Politics of Lonely
A toothbrush and a Quick Pick with the plus
You tried not to roll your sunken eyes
And said ”Hey can you help me? I cant reach it”
Pointed at the ... |
In the stick count for the song of knowing youre gone
Glancing up at where you lived when you lived here
I see you, suddenly alive and nearly smiling
Stop and hold my breath and watch the way you used to be
The full moon makes our faces shine
Like over-ironed polyester
Then disappears behind the clouds
And leaves me un... |
I want to call requests through heating vents
And hear them answered with a whisper, ”No”
To crack the code of muscles, slacken, tense
Let every second step in boots on snow
Complete your name with accents I can’t place
That stumble where the syllables combine
Take depositions from a stranger’s face
Paint every insigni... |
I want you to know what I forgive you for
Now that youre all ashes anyway
Every step into the river pushes you further away
I want you to hear the farm apologize
For letting you believe you could return
I want you to dream in all the languages we couldnt learn
I want you to write my name under your name
With the year I... |
For now I know we are alone here
Still we should be prepared to leave
Ive found a place where I have hidden
Supplies and books and sleeping bags
And Ill sing in my prescriptions
From our fort out in the forest near a stream
And theyll place them in a tiny yellow sailboat
And sail them to me
All I can say is Im excited
... |
When the bus shelter windows and napkin dispensers surprise
With distorted reflections, its never the someone youre hoping to recognize
And the rent is too high living here between reasons to live
Where you cant sleep alone and your memories groan and the borders of night start to give
When you cant save
Cash or convic... |
Let the waitress put the chairs up
Let the glasses that you broke
Form a picture of our leader
With a halo made of smoke
Let the golden oldies station crackle and come through
With a final benediction well hum along to
Before we say goodnight
Let our talk about the ball game
And the weather show we care
Like a sound we... |
Oh, the streets of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas fill with smoke
Doorbell rings
I put my controller down and pick it up
Shoot some things
Later, the darkness hits reboot and the loneliness increases
She said shed come back home when I write my masters thesis
Oh, the hours I spent in the archives wearing cotton gloves
S... |
Held like water in your shaking hands
Are all the small defeats a day demands
10 to 6 or 9 to 5, trying, dying to survive
Never knowing what survival means
Leave the apartment to buy alcohol
Hang our diplomas on the bathroom wall
Pick at the plaster chipped away, survey some stunning tooth decay
Enlist the cat in the i... |
February always finds you folding
Local papers open to the faces
”Passed away” to wonder what theyre holding
In those hands were never shown, the places
Formal photographs refuse to mention
His tiny feet, that birthmark on her knee
The tyranny of framing our attention
With all the eyes their eyes no longer see
And dar... |
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
Theres 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 dis... |
Rain for the last day that I will be known the way that I want them to know me
Rain for reporters predictable leads on the darkening stain of my name
Rain like the morning you left with the international brigade
A streak of your face at the glass when the train pulled away
The aspidistra that refused to die
A miniature... |
So you watch the sunrise sinking and shes talking in her sleep
A dream of how alone she was tomorrow when you keep
All those promises to someone in a mirror you will find
At your parents house in 1989
Terrorized
By the ruling party, calendars and commas
Small request
Could we please turn around and around and around?
T... |
Oh, all the words I should not know
That those doctors wrote on me
Swell up and thrum their syllables.
Wont let me get to sleep
The sun will start late and clock out early
So I drive around and wait for it
Follow familiar roads
Emptied of every memory
Under a sheet of silence and unmarked snow
Then idle in some parking... |
Her body is a difficult sister and she loves her
And hides her somewhere in herself, safe from harm
Shes barely coasting into a paycheck, stuck on empty
Her blue eyes frozen green in the low-lit ATM
I need a way to measure the distance
I need a way to say why
Out of breath or out of key
Her voice resonated in me
Wish o... |
A soft breeze
With the slippery concrete black and full of muddy slush
Contrasting with the hoarfrost, clean and hung
On a tunnel of silent shivering trees
The ones you said youd like to be
And the birds that screamed at the sun
Now buried deep below the ground
Beneath the snow, I press my shoulder to this wall between... |
So you dont get to be a saint
Martyrs never last this long
Guess Ill never be the one
To defeat desire in song
Heres a marker
Heres my naked skin
Our exhibit A
Put a small X where I lost my way
All the actors broke their legs
And its too late to postpone
The producers getting high
And the audience went home
Smile and t... |
Quiz night at Looky Lous
Quiz night at Looky Lous
Quiz night at Looky Lous
I trust you will know what to do
I cant recall what we were waiting in line for
When the first plane fell a block away
And the next even closer
Massive thumps and flames
And then I woke up with a calico cat on my chest
In the basement of a bar i... |
I changed the oils and oiled the squeaks
Patched the holes and fluid leaks
At dusk beneath a diabetic moon
And wait to take the TV crews
Across the creaking ice
The news is howling to the timber wolves and soon
Ill go through it all again
Watch their doubtful smiles begin
But the visions that I see believe in me
So pra... |
So when they wonder where the money went
And we cant swim here anymore
And bankers warble algorithmically from the shore
The stations pump the new austerity
The Ogallala Aquifer and crackling California reservoirs making sure
Priced out of that old neighborhood for good
The payday lonely pray in parking lots
A one-bar ... |
Youll recall from the sagas, I hope, Grettirs last stand at Drangey
How his grip on his sword made his enemies cut off his hand
If hed fled here instead and had tasted this terrible coffee
Or read these letters you sent, hed surrender and lay the blade down
And its Halloween
Skinny ghosts dress like cowboys and rest
At... |
Before we built that smirking airport
Before the phones told us where to go
Before the strike, before the streetcar
Before we read comics on the radio
Long before we found a way to gauge the coldest day
Before the flood, before the treaty
Before we broke a promise to appear
Before we drew the new team logo
Before the t... |
The sirens woke me up again
I know theyre coming for me someday, just a matter of when
Count to 25 and yawn
Touch the clock and turn my back against the dawn
And hope for that one dream
Of hardware stores with checkered floors
And buckets full of nails
Or floating effortless
Over the apartments in a boat
And rowing pas... |
They called here to tell me that youre finally dying
Through a veil of childish cries
Southern Manitoba prairies pulling at the
Pant leg of your bad disguise
So why were you so anchorless?
A boat abandoned in some backyard
Anchorless
In the small town that you lived and died in
Ive got an armchair from your family home... |
Wake up, coughing, tired, with my face in my hands
Staring at the window as the sunlight demands action
All the energy it takes to close these bedroom blinds
Wrote this selfish sadness on a bathroom wall
Spent half the span of some lost cultures rise and fall
But Im as clueless as a drooling four year old
Still hoping ... |
So the fields are stubble, the gardens done
Where the scary scarecrow stands
Sees her holding up horizons with her hands
Shes so tired of reading daddys lips
That essay on a frown
Watch her memories of human voices drown
Let horsey bray break between the thunder boom
Make grasses swish meet the crickets ring
Let every ... |
The mirrors and the unacknowledged nods
Dial tones and license plates
The words you didnt choose
Everything the days too small to hold
Spills on to the dusk
And shorts the evenings fuse
So you fumble for a voice
And sing happy birthday
Read it to yourself again
The stories always end the same
He cant stay and she wont ... |
We emerged from youth all wide-eyed like the rest
Shedding skin faster than skin can grow
And armed with hammers, feathers, blunt knives
Words to meet and to define and to... but you must know
The same games that we played in dirt, in dusty school yards
Have found a higher pitch and broader scale
Than we feared possibl... |
Oh may the roots reach beneath the sleeping street
Station in the riverbed, register what we won’t hear
May the leaves puzzle out the canopy
Shake and photosynthesize everything were sorry for
Into one long breath of air
May the rings of tanglefoot and fiberglass
Guard against the thunderstorm, canker worms and climate... |
The nights a spill, a permanent stain
The city soaks in silence, salt and dirty snow
A blue glow from the TV again
The curtains never open, faces never show
And every time a light is turned on
Theres a light thats turned off somewhere
For every other moment thats lost
Theres a perfect cost, theres a debt you cant share... |
Got this feeling that today doesnt like me
Oh the air tastes like flowers and paint
Theres a sink full of bottles and cutlery
And the car has got a list of complaints
I just wish I were a toothbrush or a solder gun
Make me something somebody can use
We can wish on the pop of a light bulb
Or those photos lying yellowed ... |
Find the airport, 7am
My heart pumping pure mini-bar
Sit on the concrete by the carts
And some girl throws a dime in my lap
You wont be laughing when you hear how this one ends
So I sleep through the entire flight
Dont really wake up until the cab driver says
Hey, where you going, I forget
Think of the time I came to v... |
Theres blood in the sink and hes plunging his wrists in
A hangover halo is washing away
Mechanic-school dropout stares into the mirror
Stands up in his derelict daydreams
Always too tall, always walked around wearing
A smile that was never quite sure of itself
Planning a future of failures inflicted
In phone calls from... |
So long living in between a tiny screen and slightly larger screen
The loneliest way to stay alone
Your face frozen up in light
From milder climates and wilder times
I cant watch it glitching anymore
I know why you had to go
An ocean asked you to play another show
The mountains arrange for you to run
I knew you would d... |
Wait until the day says its closing
And public is put away
Write by the light of a pay phone
Your list of I meant to say
Like Winter comes too soon
Or Radiators hum out of tune
Out under the Disraeli
With rusty train track ties
Well carve new streets and sidewalks
A city for small lives
And say that well stay for one m... |
Rolling cable slick with beer to hang up on
The broken stands, the house lights lit
Our injuries for crowds with plastic cups
That clapped beneath bartenders sleepy brooms
And boom, boom, boom
Boom, went amps and cases down the stairs
Into the parking lot out back
A burst of moon, a blast of air
An understanding somew... |
I manage my fantasy baseball team better
Than I manage my anger these days
And Id trade my best pitcher
For a draft pick and a picture
Of the president writhing in pain
Its a weird thing to wish for, but I cant stop wishing
Refreshing the browser, someday
If I live long enough
And the world doesnt end
My wish will come... |
He looked more like our fathers
Not a goalie, player, athlete period
Smoke, half-ash, stuck in that permanent smirk
Tugging jersey around the beer gut
Im strictly a whiskey man
Was one of the sticks he taped up
And gave to a nation of pudgy boys in beverage rooms
Favorites from Plymptons list
Of objects thrown by Range... |
Neon lights and slinking purple skies
Squeeze out soft regrets from all our lies
As I greet another door that opens in
To that place where we repeatedly begin
Im tangled up in try
Slipping on I wonder why
I face
Affection, not embrace
Another urban wasteland thick with fears
Icy lights that shine like frozen television... |
All night restaurant, North Kildonan
Luke warm coffee tastes like soap
I trace your outline in spilled sugar
Killing time and killing hope
This brand new strip mall chews on farmland
As we fish for someone to blame
But we communicate in questions
And all our answers sound the same
Under sputtering fluorescents
After re... |
They called here to tell me
That youre finally dying
Through a veil of childish cries
Southern Manitoba
Prairies pulling at the
Pant leg of your bad disguise
So why were you so
Anchorless
A boat abandoned in some backyard
Anchorless
Small town that you lived and died in
Shoe box full of photos
Found a grainy mirror
Sun... |
So Im the first one in again
With the quiet and the window growing snow
When I hear the furnace rouse itself
From its slumber, somehow suddenly I know
As my eye stops on one curled up in my lesson plan
That Im just your little ampersand
When your voice springs from the intercom
With announcements and reminders and a pr... |
Takes a dried up ball-point, lemon juice and water
Keeps a diary invisibly
In the kitchen corner of a basement bachelor suite
Theres a certain search for certainty you know well never see
Her hands touch her childhood home in photos that she took
Its one more omission from a high school history book
How whole lives get... |
Morning bright, rise, go over your lines
Iron your carefully crafted disguise
Wed all like to sing, its easy to sigh
To sprinkle a handful of plausible lies
Our buildings will rise, poke out our own eyes
Publicly smile and privately frown
A weeping reprise, please hear my cries
Id like to pull just this one building do... |
I have a headache, I have a sore back
I have a letter I cant send
I have desire, it falters and falls down
It calls you up drunk at three or four AM
To wonder when, wonderful
All the cheap tricks I tried too hard not to pull
Pulled along or pulled apart
The diagnosis of a foreign frame of heart
I have a story that Id l... |
Back in those old punk rock days
Mornings were rough enough
Public access volunteers
We were always, always in between
Miking up the Tec Voc choir
Waiting for our turn to play
We were here to take your calls every telethon
We were keeping drive alive
At the Beausejour Senior Centre dance
Rolling down drivers side
Toss ... |
Whereas Reggie Leach was born and played
Minor hockey back in my hometown
The Rifle fired his first 500 here
And slapped his way into the NHL
Whereas some of us werent always fair
To the Native kid on borrowed skates
Chippy Goolies and Ukranians
In the corners with our elbows up
Whereas Reggie on a playoff run
Could ma... |
You always stole all my last words
Heres no exception then, one more for me to send
And nothing happens in the end
Im thinking of you less, more concerned and more is less
I guess it doesnt matter now
Maybe well never go insane
You always said we would, sometimes I wished we could
With you lying naked in the rain
And s... |
Had one of those days when you wanna try heroin
Drunk driving, some form of soft suicide
Sitting in silence and staring at ceilings
Or peeling the paint off of things to confide
Maybe someday
The lies weve led around
Will crawl under our beds
And sleep off the years
Teach me to wiggle my ears like that
Show me the scar... |
This spring made winter an insulting opening offer down the passing lane
Its getting harder to negotiate, thawing out and icing up again
Past the Mint, where a circle of provincial flags are flagging in the front yard
Im tired of trying to make us think that it hasnt always been so hard
The sky looks sea-sick on the bo... |
All the unpaid bills
Wrestling interest rates
While past-due dates wait with their boutonnieres
And the slumping bike
Strangled with a lock
That we forgot the combination to
The old house drinks everything we hide
And hums sad songs that keep us up all night
With the doorknobs loose
And the pipes that burst
With the fu... |
Knock so Ill know youre still there
Half listening, interpreting the air
Full of failing foreign tongue
My dialect of stammer come undone
Ive got these threads of you and I
I use to tie my doubts down
And from four time-zones away
Still yesterday, still talking to the past
From the front seat of your car
Gravel road an... |
Cruel snow, cracked lips, sun lost by four
Cold winces through the cardboard window
Where the cobblestone smashed into glass
And the bare bulb of moon swings over Portage Avenue
And lights the icy ruts sprinkled with sand
Down the dim hall of chain stores to Grace
Where the parking lot is full again
I dont bother locki... |
Oh, wait for me, I fell behind three signs for services ago
And some sarcastic satellite says Im not anywhere
Spent every cent of your goodwill on fossil fuels and magazines
So let this field of flax forclose on everything I own
And scratch Saskatchewan away
Make Manitoba paper dolls
Lift up a line from Highway 1
To ti... |
Too far to walk to anywhere from here
Too far to walk to anywhere from here
Too far to walk to anywhere from here
Too far to walk to anywhere from here
And it didnt take long for the words to slow
Roll over the gravel shoulder
Thump into the ditch
Engine cut, battery dying
The station metastasizing
Tumours of evangelis... |
I know its annoying borrowing your brothers car
But mine wont start and its Sunday
Soon a line of headlights peering down the avenue
Could find you there in a lawn chair
Next to our old El Camino with the racing stripes
On cruise night, on cruise night, on cruise night
Dude just make it happen, I cant take another week... |
My monitor is frozen
In late-for-something sun
That cuts through icy patterns
Another days begun
Recalling all my losses
While trying to ignore
The theme that keeps repeating
From Call of Duty 4
I tap-tap off the volume
And stare out at the road
Where cars and snowplows scroll by
A broken line of code
From some embedde... |
Theyre tearing up streets again
Theyre building a new hotel
The mayors out killing kids to keep taxes down
And me and my anger sit folding a paper bird
Letting the curtains turn to beating wings
Wish I had a socket-set to dismantle this morning
Just one pair of clean socks and a photo of you
When you get off work tonig... |
Waking up each morning with confusion in my eyes
Wind is biting through to wave hello
See in my reflection an exterior of lies
Hope this shaky feeling doesnt show
As if I have to tell you, there was little left to say
It was stilted conversation colored blue
You were sitting down and you got up to walk away
Tried to st... |
Another Sunday afternoon
Nothing much to do
But sit and try and make some sense of what I think about you
Soaked with surroundings that just make me yawn
First snow is melting outside on the lawn
Scattered bits of yesterday with melancholy flecks of grey
Creeping back to tell me I was wrong
A heartful of whats hard to ... |
I woke you up at four this morning
To whimper and to whine
To hear myself through spit and crackle
Of a poor long distance line
Twelve clever ways to say I love you
With words that always fail
Hang up and light a cigarette
Sit waiting for the mail
Some flyers from department stores
A, another get rich plan
A bill or tw... |
Heres a little picture for your wallet and your mind
Its us when we were searching for the blue we could not find
Its us with padded pockets, dazzling futures and these unpolluted smiles
Reality pushed back just by the thinkings of the latest styles
Well, Im nineteen and Im catching myself living in the past
Walls with... |
She found me in high school, its a
Story you have heard before, of
Sunlight and the hope for something more
And friendship turns to passion, like some
Bird that learns to fly
There is no time for the chance to wonder why
So kiss my eyes until I get to sleep
With promises we knew we could not keep
She said stand up, mak... |
My citys still breathing, but barely, its true
Through buildings gone missing like teeth
The sidewalks are watching me think about you
Sparkled with broken glass
Im back with scars to show
Back with the streets I know
Will never take me anywhere but here
The stain in the carpet, this drink in my hand
The strangers whos... |
Hey, another numbing light of early morning
Another pile of half-read books
Nice and safe in my serene surroundings
Evil smiles and empty looks
Why justify why you can think at all?
I guess Im far too sane
Cry, falsify this turmoil of emotion
Until you feel no pain, but
Im pretty sure some sun will rise, and
Give me th... |
To that place where I repeatedly begin
Slipping on I wonder why I face
Affection not embrace
Another urban wasteland thick with fear
Icy lights
Dying embers of another day
Please tell me what it is I want to say
Im
Slipping on I wonder why I face
Affection not embrace
Affection not embrace |
An open window shows the stars shine well up there
I clear my throat to hear some sound
And think of falling out into the open air
Blue-black sky and cold, familiar ground
Something always pulls me back
Something always pulls me back
Something always seems to come along despite the, despite the
Blow up dolls of superhe... |
Slouch down in my puke-orange chair and sigh
The air is full of nerves and human cells
Beside me sits some awkward girl who lies
Fell half in love within the airport lounge
Captain says No smoking, if we crash try not to die
Flying some preposterous amount of meters high
The lavatory has smoke alarms and lukewarm water... |
This is where we come up with a larger plan
This is where we study for the nurse exam
This is where we spend a part of every day
Thinking in a language that they tried to take away
This is where the sad lamp on the second floor
Leads us to a winter afternoon
Here is a branch where we sing out the call
Millennium for al... |
Flying, floating, softly spinning swiftly through my dreams
Attempts are made and understanding what it really means
Trying to hold humanity in life got truly mad
Extenuating circumstances always make me sad
And sadness is eternity, I cannot tell you why
Generally speaking all I wanna do is sigh
Cigarettes and cups of ... |
And the road only goes one way
And you cant get lost
The trees drive by
And we carry the river
I ask you four questions
You give me four answers
The ininiwish that live here
The book that changed your life
And the river only goes one way
And you cant get lost
The akiwenzii that assigned you
The oil rig, it sang Marx
We... |
Morning bright, rise
Go over your lines
Iron your carefully crafted disguise
Wed all like to sing
Its easy to sigh
To sprinkle a handful of plausible lies
Our buildings will rise
Poke out our own eyes
Publicly smile and privately frown
A weeping reprise
Please hear my cries
Id like to pull just this one building down
S... |
Out on the front porch with a kerosene lamp
See white-capped waves rolling five feet high
But begging these memories for another advance
Is like whispering love to the sky
I have this picture of you taking my hand
Sink to my knees in the damp, dark sand
Take off all your clothes and we reach out in vain
The light goes ... |
I turned on all the sprinklers in the pouring rain
To try and hide the real, and I recall
Couldnt get to sleep that night, its still the same
No one left to call
No one left to stop me from the fall
All this self pity, I am shit
Dreamed of rows of quickly closing doors
I heard the things they said and I refuse to be mi... |
Flowers Moonlight Stickythings
Old guitar stings
And smoothly obscene
And I use the word you I dont know who I mean
If this song was a painting it would be velveteen
We sat on a beach at night
We all need the space
To fall down and grow
And I use the word you I dont know who I mean
If this song was a painting it would ... |
Expectations loom and haunt me
With these questions I must choose
In our minds that youth formed with the
Friction of opposing views
Were not spilled on grasping whims
Kick em in, so plain to see
Stressly fierce and yet unvented
Still I have no tragedy
To be soaring in un un un unearthly refrain
Fall face down in the m... |
Home, home, all souls home
Dead to the graveyard, living to the lamplight
Old to the fireside, girls from the twilight
Babe to the breast, and heart to its haven
Lost ones home
—Kathleen Raine, Spell to Bring Lost Creatures Home
Twilight casts its spell
The forest sighs and trembles
Children, shadows long
Hurry down th... |
Come on, Gwen. Where’ve you been?
Are you feeling right? You got so thin
What sets you running when you hear us coming?
You can’t hide from a landslide
Maryanne, still so young. New Year’s Eve, in ’91
You held his hand and looked around
You could take that chain down
You could take that chain down
Bleeding heart and cl... |
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Dataset Card for "huggingartists/john-k-samson"
Dataset Summary
The Lyrics dataset parsed from Genius. This dataset is designed to generate lyrics with HuggingArtists. Model is available here.
Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
Languages
en
How to use
How to load this dataset directly with the datasets library:
from datasets import load_dataset
dataset = load_dataset("huggingartists/john-k-samson")
Dataset Structure
An example of 'train' looks as follows.
This example was too long and was cropped:
{
"text": "Look, I was gonna go easy on you\nNot to hurt your feelings\nBut I'm only going to get this one chance\nSomething's wrong, I can feel it..."
}
Data Fields
The data fields are the same among all splits.
text: astringfeature.
Data Splits
| train | validation | test |
|---|---|---|
| 116 | - | - |
'Train' can be easily divided into 'train' & 'validation' & 'test' with few lines of code:
from datasets import load_dataset, Dataset, DatasetDict
import numpy as np
datasets = load_dataset("huggingartists/john-k-samson")
train_percentage = 0.9
validation_percentage = 0.07
test_percentage = 0.03
train, validation, test = np.split(datasets['train']['text'], [int(len(datasets['train']['text'])*train_percentage), int(len(datasets['train']['text'])*(train_percentage + validation_percentage))])
datasets = DatasetDict(
{
'train': Dataset.from_dict({'text': list(train)}),
'validation': Dataset.from_dict({'text': list(validation)}),
'test': Dataset.from_dict({'text': list(test)})
}
)
Dataset Creation
Curation Rationale
Source Data
Initial Data Collection and Normalization
Who are the source language producers?
Annotations
Annotation process
Who are the annotators?
Personal and Sensitive Information
Considerations for Using the Data
Social Impact of Dataset
Discussion of Biases
Other Known Limitations
Additional Information
Dataset Curators
Licensing Information
Citation Information
@InProceedings{huggingartists,
author={Aleksey Korshuk}
year=2021
}
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