Ah shit, baby
Canyon bro', your life is worked in
Dream about the witch trials
You get all too hot of pepper
In your forecast
Beneath the shady mezzanine
Keep it when you want to belong
July fourth, raging fortune
Dream about the witch trials
Send in the romance of people

With their dreadlocks
Tied like windshields in the night
Keep it when you want to belong
I keep my head on for pretty jades
I keep my head up for ships and shade
I keep my head up for Richie Raid?
I keep my head up for guilty rays?
(Feel like I'm falling!)
Allez! allez! allez! allez!
Allez! allez! allez! allez!


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Half a Canyon Lyrics as written by Stephen Malkmus

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    Pretty sure the first line is "Canyon broke," hence "Half a Canyon."

    Other than that, acorm88 is right. This is nothing but stoned rambling with a killer psych-jam at the end.

    leamancon November 04, 2008   Link

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