| The Weakerthans – Tournament of Hearts Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The Tournament of Hearts is the annual Canadian women's curling championship. Most of the song is curling terminology/references: "extra end", "peel a corner guard", "sheet", "hack weight", "bonspiel", etc. Much of the rest uses curling metaphors to question a relationship and/or one's life: Why can't I draw right up to what I want to say? Why can't I ever stop when I want to stay? We roll right through our years We drift right through our months We slide through our days And always throwing hack weight The "Right off, no never ever" things is the skip yelling at the sweepers to stop sweeping |
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