Biography:
See The Weakerthans
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Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
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They're tearing up streets again
C
They're building a new hotel
D7 D
The Mayor's out killing kids to keep taxes down
G
and me and my anger
C
sit folding a paper bird
D7 D
letting the curtains turn to beating wings
C
Wish I had a socket-set
G Gm
to dismantle this morning
G
And just one pair of clean socks
D7
And a photo of you
G
When you get off work tonight
C
meet me at the construction site
D7 D
and we'll write some notes to tape to the heavy machines
G
like We hope they treat you well
C
Hope you don't work too hard
D7 D
We hope you get to be happy sometimes
C
Bring your swiss-army knife
G Gm
and a bottle of something
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and I'll bring some spraypaint
D7
and a new deck of cards
G
Hey I found the safest place
C
to keep all our tenderness
D7 D
Keep all those bad ideas Keep all our hope
G
It's here in the smallest bones
C
the feet and the inner-ear
D7 D
It's such an enormous thing to walk and to listen
C
I'd like to fall asleep
G Gm
to the beat of you breathing
G D7
in a room near a truckstop on a highway somewhere
G
You are a radio
C
You are an open door
D7 D
I am a faulty string of blue christmas lights
G
You swim through frequencies
C
You let that stranger in
D7 D
as I'm blinking off and on and off again
C
We've got a lot of time
G Gm
Or maybe we don't
G D7
but I'd like to think so so let me pretend
G
These are my favourite chords
C
I know you like them too
D7 D
When I get a new guitar you could have this one
G
And sing me a lullaby
C
Sing me the alphabet
D7 D
Sing me a story I haven't heard yet
Weedeater
Ween
Weezer
Weird Al Yankovi (...)
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