When the color of the night
And all the smoke for one life
Gives way to shaky movements
Improvisational skills

A forest of whispering speakers
Let's swear that we will
Get with the times
In a current health to stay

Let's get friendship right
Get life day to day
In the forget yer skates dream
Full of countervailing woes

In diverse as ever scenes
Proceeding on a need to know
In a face so full of meaning
As to almost make it glow

For for a good life
We just might have to weaken
And find somewhere to go

Go somewhere we're needed
Find somewhere to grow
Go somewhere we're needed

When the color of the night
And all the smoke in one life
Gives way to shaky movements
Improvisational skills

In the forest of whispering speakers
Let's swear that we will
Get with the times
In a current health to stay

And let's get friendship right
Get life day to day
In the forget yer skates dream
Full of countervailing woes

In diverse as ever scenes
Proceeding on a need to know
In a face so full of meaning
As to almost make it glow

For for a good life
We just might have to weaken
And find somewhere to go

Go somewhere we're needed
Find somewhere to grow
Go somewhere we're needed
Find somewhere to go
Let's go somewhere we're needed
Find somewhere to grow
Go where we're needed

'Cause in the forget-yer-skates dream
You can hang your head in woe
And this diverse as ever scene
Know which way to go


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It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken Lyrics as written by Johnny Fay Gordon Downie

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    I first heard this song while I was asleep and my friend was watching the TV. This song was playing and it crept into my dreams. For some reason I dreamt that Rutger Hauer was singing it to Kristy Swanson. The next morning I asked my friend if he was listening to Tragically Hip, and he was like "Yeah, it's their new song, it rocks." Then I asked him if he was watching Buffy The Vampire Slayer or something, and he was like "No." So I guess I'm a nut.

    MadShangi2003on March 21, 2003   Link

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