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| The Weakerthans – Uncorrected Proofs Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I can't believe there isn't any comments on this. I think it's an amazing song, with a good meaning. Love love love love LOVE the Weakerthans. Awgh. |
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| The Weakerthans – This Is A Fire Door Never Leave Open Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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This is definitely and underrated song. It's my absolute favorite right now. These lines from the song really got to me: "benevolence that you've never known, or you knew when you were four and can't remember", "I remember everything, lick and thread this string that will never mend you or tailor more than a memory of a kitchen floor, or the fire-door that we kept propping open. And I love this place; the enormous sky, and the faces, hands that I'm haunted by, so why can't I forgive these buildings, these frameworks labeled "Home"?" Because those both have to do with me so much. John K. writes the most amazing lyrics. |
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| The Weakerthans – Elegy for Elsabet Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I'm betting it is about a deaf girl. I always loved this song, but never really paid attention to the lyrics. Then one day I was singing the song while walking with a friend who doesn't listen to the Weakerthans. I got up to "watch her memories of human voices drown", and she said "is that about a deaf girl or something?" and I definitely think so now. Especially since John K. seems to be stressing sound, what with all the descriptions of things making noises (Let horsey bray break between the thunder boom. Make grasses' swish meet the cricket's ring, let every rain clatter down at groaning streets, Make footsteps tick, talk to echoed walls, Let every wind howl and creak the creaking doors to rooms that too much has happened in). And not to mention "words that Betta never heard". I think this is an obvious one. |
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