Weakerthans - Exiles Among You Lyrics lyrics

rate me

Her body is a difficult sister, and she loves her, and hides her

somewhere in herself safe from harm. She's barely coasting

into a paycheque, stuck on empty. Her blue eyes frozen

green in the low-lit ATM. I need a way to measure the

distance. I need a way to say why, out of breath or out of

key, her voice resonated in me. Her body is a difficult sister,

and she loves her, and hides her somewhere in herself safe

from harm. Her night shift is over, she's writing you a

postcard to say that she's okay and it's raining there again.

My fury's rising faster than bus-fares. Could someone clarify

why there's no structured narrative? no neat story-line to

explain? Wish on everything. Pray that she remains proud

and strange and so hopelessly hopeful. (Wishes and prayers

are the way that we leave the lonely alone and push the

wounded away). She shoplifts some Christmas gifts, and a

bracelet for herself, and considers phoning home. Has some

quarters in her hand. But she sits down on the sidewalk and

bites her bottom lip, and spends the afternoon willing traffic-

lights to change.