Doing the same thing every day I'm so tired I don't want it anymore I want to sleep A perfect way where you don't wake up but you don't die You just simply lie without drowning anymore I don't want to be here But I don't want to not be here Suicide; it won't happen But then neither will life without drowning anymore

I still remember all those haunting dark shadows I had lost faith in life Then there was you You took me out of the gutter, my friend You cheered me up when I was down-hearted You gave me back my dignity I don't know what to do My friend, now I've lost you I'm drowning in the rain That's pouring out my broken heart I'm drowning in the rain That's fallin' since we had to part I have to face my destiny My life is all in vain A thousand tears I cry for you I'm drowning in the rain Now I recall all the hard days and sorrow That we have been through You taught me to smile And save my tears for a rainy day You took me out of the back-streets forever You made me feel a beauty queen I don't know what to do My friend, now I've lost you I'm drowning in the rain (I'm drowning in the rain) That's pouring out my broken heart I'm drowning in the rain (I'm drowning in the rain) That's fallin' since we had to part I have to face my destiny (I have to face my destiny) My life is all in vain (My life is all in vain) A thousand tears I cry for you (Aaaaaaaaaah) I'm drowning in the rain I'm drowning in the rain (I'm drowning in the rain) That's pouring out my broken heart I'm drowning in the rain (I'm drowning in the rain) That's fallin' since we had to part I have to face my destiny (I have to face my destiny) My life is all in vain (My life is all in vain) A thousand tears I cry for you (Aaaaaaaaaah) I'm drowning in the rain

If you're tired why don't you sleep, love, sleep in my arms If you're lonely can't you speak, love, won't do any harm Neither balanced nor concrete so that won't get us far, no Here come take a seat, love, watch the diamond star Let go 'f the silver pearls, hun, listen with the past For the end and for the bad, oh, dreams so everlast Drowning in the skies, so don't forget the best, oh Make your lullabies and take care of the rest There'll be no flowers at your grave You will get none of what you crave You are the one who can't be saved No one will follow your trail

Up for three days Up for three days Down under ground for six more Incisions cannot penetrate my feet Tripping, gliding, falling numbly Hands held together with unwanted skin Ripping, hiding calling dumbly Oh You, in houses of mud You, in gutter sleep-love You, born to slaughter-swathed gloves You, dressing daughters and sons Like you - I am broken and fragile Like you - I am tasting my heart for the first time Like you - I am feeding on slumber Like you - I've left my eyes far behind me Down for the count I'm still drowning I'm still drowning The eighth day Sleep, the eighth day Clawed my way back to the first No gentle fingers collapse on my eyes Weeping, prying, struggling blindly There's no sanity standing me back on my feet I'm in an empty room I'm burning books from you I'm lost in bed with you Breaking these mirrors to end all I've seen Like you - I am broken and fragile Like you - I am tasting my heart for the first time Like you - I am feeding on slumber Like you - I've left my eyes far behind me Down for the count I'm still drowning I'm still drowning I'm still drowning

The hard Canadian He don't have much to say But he hurts your feelings Almost every single day Takes a puff of nothing Picks something from his tongue He's the hard Canadian The hard Canadian Doesn't care what you do The hard Canadian Don't give a damn about you What's a windswept face The elusive presence of the sun To the hard Canadian? The hard Canadian Is all darkness in his heart But for the glow of her nightgown Through the dark Yeah, but then he blurs the image Drags his brush through the wet pigment 'Cause he's the hard Canadian His berating heart Grown thorny with sin And, oh, the silences He don't listen to them Whether he's just mean Or wilfully dense He says, "From life nothing To death nothing" The hard Canadian Is what he throws away And he hurt her feelings Almost every single day Now he takes a shot of nothing Stares off remembering someone That's the hard Canadian That's the hard Canadian He's the hard Canadian

(One, two) (One, two, three, four) "Oh, baby, how about a kiss?" You said, "Okay, but I don't want to do this" Here's me, as a mover Me, as a mover Got no opinion Listening to the yessing of the snow There's no pressure I'm not less sure I'm ready to go "Oh, I dare you Oh, daddy, take us everywhere" Me, as a mover Me, as a mover Got no opinion Watching a dead leaf etching on the snow The slow gesture I'm even less sure of which way to go "Oh, everything is leaving Seems there's wings on everything, oh" "Oh, baby, how about that kiss?" You said, "Okay, but I still don't want to do it" Here's me, as a mover Me, as a mover Me, I'm the mover

"Well, I'd rather dress a wolf," you said "Well, I'd rather floss his teeth," I said We fought 'til the ferry was full And that wolf was dead "Ship's ahoy" and we're out of the car Under howling winds and skies of lead We might as well have been crossing the ocean Except this ocean is dead But there's a smudge of moon over Glenora Ferry spotlight's on the ice ahead And over your shoulder And through the snowflakes there's an aloneness Aloneness Aloneness As dead As dead As that ocean is dead And that ocean is dead Back under the glow of the interior light Blowing hard into my hands, I said "Let's leave this boat to the snowflakes To the aloneness" Aloneness Aloneness As dead As dead As that ocean is dead And that ocean is dead That ocean is dead That ocean is dead That ocean is dead That ocean is dead That ocean is dead That ocean is dead That ocean is dead That ocean is dead That ocean is dead

Where I am No one makes a sound No one makes a peep No one opens their mouth to speak Oh, the constant idling of winter work Work I recognise and understand No more, "What-must-he-think?' No more, "I-think-he-thinks" More, alone and idling in a van Where I am No one makes a sound Nobody makes a peep No one opens their mouth to speak Oh, the constant sifting for material Or the constantly in my head Oh, ain't that uncanny, ain't that unnatural, yeah Taking everything to bed, yeah, well Burgundy's crestfallen, she's outside herself Saying, "Why do I do what I did?", yeah When I get out of high level, yeah, when, not if I'm just going to want to hold and smell and touch my kids, yeah Dance-dance to their timeless trance And dream-dream to the stone of their dreams Go on, little drunken astronauts, go Far, straight, forgiving and brief Forget the hawks, jaguars, the knife-lickers and creeps Where I am No one makes a sound No one makes a peep No one opens their mouth to speak Moonslow your eyelashes, fluttering above your cheeks Moonslow your little lashes, please, go to sleep Yeah, please, go to sleep Honey, please, go to sleep