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highway signs
02:10
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Every good thing slips through my fingers
I wish just for once I could make somethin linger
Went all this time bein played like a fool
If I weren't optimistic I’d see you're cruel
Please be upfront, make it quick
spent the past while making myself sick
The rearview mirror won’t show you the way
Though roads unfamiliar might lead you astray
Shadows between those big highway signs
Flickering, fleeting, tempting white lines
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beautiful alberta
02:06
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Alberta haven’t you seen your namesake?
Through the Rockies, where the wild poppies grow
A clear, open sky, fields as far as the eye can see
I’m afraid you may leave when I come near
Distrusting of the one who once was mine
You can keep him all the same, just know who is to blame for that
Wouldn’t you ever stop and think
Before you pushed it to the brink and broke more hearts
You led him to the edge, as I hid behind my hedge and played it off
He’s fallen for the plains, and Vancouver’s rain will be a ghost
Beautiful Alberta you know I must stay on the coast
Alberta haven’t you seen your namesake?
Through the Rockies, where the wild poppies grow
A clear, open sky, fields as far as the eye can see
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tried
01:57
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Blinded by some white-hot passion
Waiting for your reaction
Starin down the barrel of a long shotgun
Into the eyes of the devil’s son
I clench my hand around the throttle
Put your lips against a bottle
Not a scratch, back by dawn
Found face down on the neighbour’s lawn
I know you’re bad but I’m no good
I keep my promises as I should
You kept yours as best you could
Even though I knew you never would
Sorry for not understanding
Sorry if I seem demanding
Sorry for the way I tend to stare
Sorry that you thought I’d always care
Sorry if I ever got you sick
Sorry I never did the trick
Sorry for nothing sorry for it all
Sorry for the way I always took the fall
I know you’re bad but I’m no good
I keep my promises as I should
You kept yours as best you could
Even though I knew you never would
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Wash my hands in dirty water
Just to get them clean
Everything’s the same as it was
As it’s always been
Find myself on the other side of town clinging to something I tried to leave behind
And if you look too close, you might just catch a glimpse of the reflection of what I meant to hide
And the light fading from the sky
xxx
The longest night of the year
If only we could both be here
My lover, my other, the only one I know
Waits for me in Ontar-io
Sway, swing with me
In the headlight’s golden beam
Dance with me in the snow up to our knees
Sing ourselves to sleep
Sing myself to sleep
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Parkade Vancouver, British Columbia
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hey
music by el bo
vancouver/los angeles
background art by Milton Glaser
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