I took a plane
I took a train
(Ah, who cares, you always end up in the city)
I said to Carl
Look up for once
(See just how the sun sets in the sky)
I said to Jon
Do you think the...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The New Pornographers
Glasswork shards decorate this house
We're tossing lost arts out windows
The splash and jangle of a secret science defined
You claim some golden age is upon us
You always lov...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The New Pornographers
Assassins drain the deep end, but to leap off or to creep in?
Well inside the thriller genre, it's the long game of the goners
The room is in disguise, it’s the lamp's ...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The New Pornographers
[Verse 1: A. C. Newman]
Solomon had his following, he heard his calling
In a fever dream at 4 or 5 in the morning
Nothing he thought would enter him into the canon
But he had t...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The New Pornographers
When we begin to reconstruct events, it lends itself to legend, yes
The amount of love that goes into the sets is very obvious
In this scale model, ship in bottle, swinging from ...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The New Pornographers
She was only ever passing through
She's only ever passing through
Cartilage and sinew
Was the name of her act
And it's true to love her is all I can do
In a world that's bea...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The New Pornographers
Been awake for awhile
Going deep, going long
Rising through what I keep
In the floats, what we found
Under glass, all the hours
Filled with hail-mary passes
It all sort of ...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The New Pornographers
Don't you know
after picking the glass off the ground
Don't you know
after shaking the thing for a sound
Do we see what the clock makes you do
But I won't let this happen to you
...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The New Pornographers
So you wanted to go toward the streetlights
But the city at night was not for you
Your mind saw sparks, mine saw stars
We played games, we played guitars
I don't know where you are...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The New Pornographers
A mistake on the part of nature,
You're so fabled, so fair, just sit anywhere,
I've pencil-sketched the scene,
It's feeling byzantine
Mistakes on the part of nature,
The liv...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The New Pornographers