.Emily Haines.
The following are songs by the artist Emily Haines:
"Shrine To Fast Goodbyes" - Emily Haines
Drinks aside, it's time we tried to stay somewhere.
Take my only souvenir, hold it up high, toss it off the roof.
If it should break, tell me how it sounds when it lands.
Steal time when there isn't enough,
Turn the wheel, I'm backing it up.
Don't feel old, hope I'm backing up.
Don't feel old
Bloodshot eye, a ringing in the left ear.
1975 ringing in my right ear.
Our simple rules failed each other,
We're close to used to being wrong.
Now it's gone, get undressed, feeling hopeless
Work weary world, see no sign of relief
Still I find time to complain of a shortage
while the excess collects at their feet.
Always say that we will, but we don't.
Always say that we did, when we did nothing.
Drinks aside, the day today is the monotone.
Now there's nowhere left to go
Build a shrine to fast goodbyes
What's the mistake?
What's the mistake?
Steal time when there isn't enough,
Turn the wheel, I'm backing it up.
Don't feel old, hope I'm backing up.
Don't feel old
Bloodshot eye, ringing in the left ear,
1975 ringing in my right ear.
Our simple rules failed each other,
We're both reduced to being wrong.
Here and it's gone get undressed, feeling hopeless.
Work weary world, see no sign of relief.
Still they find time to complain of a shortage,
while the excess collects at their feet.
Above, the sun rising late hasn't set yet.
Work weary world, too tired now to ever sleep.
From watching you all complain of a shortage,
while the excess collects at your feet.
The excess collects at your feet.
Between the church and under haiku,
It is roped in deep blue.
"Crowd Surf off a Cliff" -Emily Haines
Cursed with a love that you can't express
It's not for a fuck, or a kiss
Rather give the world away than wake up lonely
Everywhere and every way I see you with me
Crowd surf off a cliff
Land out on the ice
Crowd surf off to sea
float towards the beach
If you find me, hide me, I don't know where I've been
Are we breathing? Are we breathing?
Are we wasting our breath?
It won't be enough to be rich
All the babies tucked away in their beds
We're out here screaming
The life that you thought through is gone
Can't want out, the ending outlasting the mood
I wake up lonely
If you find me, hide me, I don't know where I've been
When you phone me tell me everything I did
If I'm sorry you lost me you'd better make it quick
Cause this call costs a fortune and it's late where you live
Rather give the world away than wake up lonely
Everywhere and every way I see you with me
All the babies tucked away in their beds
We're out here screaming
The life that you thought through is gone
Can't want out, the ending outlasting the mood
I wake up lonely
"Nothing and Nowhere" - Emily Haines
Sketching your faces, I still don't know you are permanent, permanent.
You want all of the moments stolen,
Blind alleys and hallways to basements.
How you gunna hide 'til you disappear?
Because nothing and nowhere is golden.
Apartments are cages, I still don't know what is permanent, permanent.
Maybe all my posessions were precious.
Truth is all my posessions I somehow lost 'em.
Been travelling so light and we're floating by,
Seems nothing and nowhere is golden.
Some say we're lost in space,
Some say we're falling off the page.
Some say our life is insane.
But it isn't insane on paper.
Playgrounds are graveyards and all of our scars are permanent, permanent.
There's no replacement for places,
I'll always love you, you're mine.
Numb is the new high, old memories die out 'till
Nothing and nowhere is golden.
Some say we always only wanting to get off,
Some say our hands are much too soft.
Some say our life is insane;
But it isn't insane on paper.
Some say our hair is in our eyes,
Some say we're out of our little minds
Some say our life is insane,
But it isn't insane on paper to have to ask