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Road Signs
04:05
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Cherry Bomb explodes outside my window
Kids across the street are getting high and making jokes
About a girl who they don't know one day will make her name
As a rodeo queen
The papers say it’s gonna be a good year
For speculators, fortune tellers, therapists and war
But that's no consolation for a man whose made an art
Out of buying high and selling low
We walk, we talk
We close our eyes
To the signs
By the side of the road
Another storefront turns its back on King Street
A busker sings his heart out underneath the overhang
And tries to make a living out of Joni Mitchell songs
But it ain't easy for a baritone
The profit takers rub their magic lanterns
And gaze into their crystal balls and thank their lucky stars
For the correlation between laying people off
And a sudden increase in the price of shares
The politicians line-up at the buffet
Fret over their pension plans and their delinquent sons
Talk about their g-g-generation's legacy
And bow their heads and say a prayer
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Little Screens
04:40
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Shake it like you mean it in your corduroy wide wale
Drown your sorrow in a spilled-milk cocktail
Listen to the house band covering the Beatles
Eight Days a Week
Sidewalk cigarette stare at the little screen
Crosstown 24 stare at the little screen
Pickin’ up some take-out stare at the little screen
Pour yourself a drink and stare at the little screen
It’s like a power failure
A broken record player
‘Round and ‘round and ‘round we go
Come a little closer
It’s like a roller coaster
Where it stops nobody knows
Somebody’s kid with a rifle in his hand
Somebody’s kid overcome by quicksand
Somebody’s kid dancing with his boyfriend
Never made it home
Welcome to the New World, Welcome to the New Age
Down at the border, a kid in a dog cage
What’s that sound? Sounds like a pistol
I’m pretty sure this will end in pixels
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How High The Water
05:28
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Catastrophic implications of another flood
A record-breaker, “Five feet high and rising” Johnny Cash
Find the children, break the lock on the fire escape
Grab a bottle, and don’t forget the radio
Comes in buckets
Comes in underneath the door
Comes in helicopters
From the rig offshore
How high the water?
Scientific explanation of a Biblical
Weather pattern visible by satellite
I saw it coming, coming from a mile away
And I started praying, forty nights, forty days
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Law of Sedition
06:04
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City workers, light and power
Threw the switch and seized the hour
Postmen were the next to join
Between the Red and the Assiniboine
In Liverpool the docks were still
Mounties gathered on the hill
I can’t imagine they were proud
When the order came: “Disperse the crowd!”
This is the Law of Sedition
And this is the law of the land
This, this is the hard ground
And this is where we make our stand
Winnipeg double-one-nine
Abe Heaps was a friend of mine
They dragged him out in the street
Pajama bottoms and stocking feet
Six were charged, but all could see
The Dominion was the conspiracy
Just immigrants and Labour men
Herded in to the Federal Pen’
By the law, they were tried
Justice was nowhere sight
Just vigilante citizens
General Kitchen’s Militia
“They’re Bolsheviks!” the witness lied
And then Abe Heaps testified
The people’s heroes on the their knees
Only one would be set free
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