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you're so sensitive,
you can feel a single hair curl while you're sleepin',
and each fraction of a millimeter fingernail's growth.
you show half a heart when you play euchre
and i face the punching bag, and do what i'm told,
but you stoop so low,
to write a word in white pastel on a skull shaped gauge,
you say: "i'm not myself without my challenger commemorative button
on the chest of my brown down vest."
you say: "coffee's turned my dark days into woody allen *long sigh* anxiety."
you say: "hide in denver, and i remember montreal. i swear i'll write soon."
don't encourage the wind;
the candles will retire.
the cumulative weight
of all my chain letter curses.
something about this
is clowns with knives.
an ambulance siren
searching for an injured person.
that ain't no god
it's just a hedge on fire.
that ain't no god
it's just a burning bush.
you're so sensitive,
you can feel a single hair curl while you're sleepin',
and each fraction of a millimeter fingernail's growth.
don't encourage the wind;
the candles will retire.
the cumulative weight
of all my chain letter curses.
something about this
is clowns with knives.
an ambulance siren
searching for an injured person.
that ain't no god
it's just a hedge on fire.
that ain't no god that ain't no god that ain't no god...
you can feel a single hair curl while you're sleepin',
and each fraction of a millimeter fingernail's growth.
you show half a heart when you play euchre
and i face the punching bag, and do what i'm told,
but you stoop so low,
to write a word in white pastel on a skull shaped gauge,
you say: "i'm not myself without my challenger commemorative button
on the chest of my brown down vest."
you say: "coffee's turned my dark days into woody allen *long sigh* anxiety."
you say: "hide in denver, and i remember montreal. i swear i'll write soon."
the candles will retire.
of all my chain letter curses.
something about this
is clowns with knives.
an ambulance siren
searching for an injured person.
that ain't no god
it's just a hedge on fire.
it's just a burning bush.
you can feel a single hair curl while you're sleepin',
and each fraction of a millimeter fingernail's growth.
the candles will retire.
of all my chain letter curses.
something about this
is clowns with knives.
an ambulance siren
searching for an injured person.
that ain't no god
it's just a hedge on fire.
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i believe the game is "euchre"
yes, a card game, which makes sense of the phrase "show half a heart"
yes, a card game, which makes sense of the phrase "show half a heart"
you sit tight in denver, i remember montreal. i swear i'll write soon.
i think instead of "you say: 'hide in denver..." it's "sit tight in denver" but really i'm not sure. i guess just don't know what is meant by hiding in denver. i think it makes a bit more sense.
It's so strange to me to hear a song like this one from Why?. I'm so used to his work with Dose in cLOUDDEAD. I just bought this album and I love it man. Every song, every line. Cheers Why?, keep writing.
Why? makes a lot of connections with cLOUDDEAD. Check out The Vowels, Pt. 2 from Alopecia, then listen to the beginning of 3 Twenty from Ten. They use the same lines, it's pretty awesome.
Why? makes a lot of connections with cLOUDDEAD. Check out The Vowels, Pt. 2 from Alopecia, then listen to the beginning of 3 Twenty from Ten. They use the same lines, it's pretty awesome.
Same thing happens with this song and The Great Compromise from Dose's solo album Skeleton Repellent
Same thing happens with this song and The Great Compromise from Dose's solo album Skeleton Repellent
euchre! i love all the Ohio/Cincinnati references in Why? songs. euchre, the racer...
Does anyone else think the "candles" (that will retire) might have lit that burning bush? Maybe a commentary on the belief in god. Disbelief will happen naturally, don't encourage it?
lifted directly from another ohioan, guided by voices' 'do the earth'.
oh and i just noticed that someone already said that haha ps. if you haven't heard the almost live version of this song, you must!
It is written from the perspective of a devout person, disappointed in a young person who is thinking freely, the lines after "you say..." cut in as if the young person is sick of this blind response they have heard a million times, the devout person has nothing new to say, hence the second verse just being the first line repeated, then a long pause, the first part of the chorus is the devout and the second part is the free-thinker, if you really look into the other lyrics it all makes sense, Yoni would never write in opposition to individuality and free thinking, as jarvis suggested, it is just in that point of view to make the song work
I think the name comes from one of Yoni's friends (Acquaintance?)Brendon 'Alias' Whitney, who is another artist on anticon. Maybe this refers to Brendon's outlook on life when he was younger?