Saturday 13 October 2012

Lyrics of the Day

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 can't stop finding your face in their faces, all rearranged

And angry like you never were

And I ease us back into traffic
Dusk comes on and I wonder why I'm always remembering you
At civil twilight
For the most part I think about golfing and constantly calculate all the seconds left in the minutes, and so on, etcetera.
Or recite the names of provinces and Hollywood actors; Oh, Ontario, oh, Jennifer Jason Leigh

This part of the day bewilders me

Streets slow down and ice over, dusk comes on and I struggle to stop, to stop, to stop thinking of you
At civil twilight

Hey, every other hour I pass that house, where you told me that you had to go
I wonder if the landlord has fixed the crack, that I stared at, instead of staring back at you

My chance to say something seemed so brief but it wasn't.
Now I know I had plenty of time between the sunset and certified darkness
Dusk comes on and I follow the exhaust from memory up to the end

At civil twilight

-The Weakerthans

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