Emily Haines : Cut In Half and Also Double

Post-punk / Canada
(1997 - Self-Released)
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1. DOG

I do get lonely so many nights, spent soaking beans
and listening to my ears; you are what you hear

Dog
Sit up and run
White laced panties and calm it
Your body is warm so is my vomit
Your body is warm, but im not cold

Hard to say
Let it go before it gets away
Hard to move
Standing next to you

He's a good dog, i can do whatever i want to him
Cause it doesn't show, he doesn't know any better

Sit
Rub
Here, dog


2. BORE

If you leave early, no one's coming out to get you
Once you're gone, we'll forget you were here and there
I get up early, make a list and go on back to bed to dream
You're slicing up my face.
You like my hair and that's all that matters

It's too early, bed of hands
Still we can't fall asleep for too long
And forget while we're here,
Not over there

It's not crazy anymore, every busride's such a bore
I miss that shiny downtown whore that I was before

Oh, misery
What would I have if you didn't have me?
Oh, Misery
Who are you going to move when you can't touch me?
Oh, misery
Who do you love if you didn't love me?
Try me, I'm really not a whore


3. EDEN

Welcome to the garden of Eden
Can you see even me, when I've pushed?
Call it a fall and lay all the blame on me

From where I'm standing, it's a long way down
Up here, at the top of a building
Top of a mountain, top of a crowd
Watching all the people moving down there in their clothes
It's like they're hiding, but there's nothing left
That everybody doesn't already know
I feel allright, i'm not coming down
until I remember, and I will remember

Where I'm standing, it's high enough
I'm looking over miles and miles of highway signs
Do you know how to get out when you run out of reasons
Ran out of reasons nights ago
And I will remember, if I still remember the garden of eden
You could see even me, when I'm pushed
Called it a fall and lay all the blame on me


4. PRETTY HEAD

Too late today, for the sky to open
No living place lay here for the sky to fall
no one remembers when the wheel was broken
Made a rut so deep, made a massive hole
Made a man so small

I don't want to see that girl
Always got something going wrong inside her pretty head
I dont want to be that girl

Too late today for an open moment
A stray temptation's all in her touch
And on the way, not a word was spoken
There's not much to say
Already gave some, already gave too much

I dont want to be that girl Who can't get over it
Have been dumped and living it, and it shows


5. FREAK

Traded your bucket and bruises for a bag of bones
And a wardrobe of excuses
You live too hard, you look too good
And you're in my backyard
just like everybody said you would be
Greased by imposters
Plastic at the crust
And I'm orbiting lighter
You'd gone too far if you could
And you're in my backyard
just like everybody said you would be

So Let's get wired, I feel weakened
Make it look so easy, come on, come on freak
You're a liar, I'm a thief
And this will get you
If your baby gets down off, I'm listening

It gets so crowded in an empty place
Two eyeballs for every face
Three bodies hanging up a transient's cell
Six hands in the same hole
It gets so crowded in an empty place
Two eyes for every face
Three weary bodies hanging up one's soul
Six hands in the same hole
Everybody said you would be

Greased by imposters
Plastic at the crust
And I'm orbiting lighter
You live too hard, you look too good
And you're in my backyard
just like everybody said you would be

In their house we're belching down some very nice words
Just to keep it brief, we'll get tomorrow as you win

...

It's not really going to work, I don't think
Mm, Just play it anyway
Beautiful boy, what can I do?
I told you I told you
Beautiful boy, I know I never do
What I want to, I want to


6. THE VIEW

Who deserves a pretty tangle dream
Green hillside, hands inside hands
I lay before you like unclaimed land
You drove your bulldozer over
Wrote your name in the sand
I am new, watch the smoke move through
You've got this world, and the wine in your hand

So you drink it down, then you look at me
And offer me some watered down potion
Always one to let out devotion
Tell me you've been saving it for me

Who deserves a pretty tangle dream
Green hillside, hands inside hands
I lay before you like unclaimed land
Clear economic potential
You hung yourself in the sky frozen blue
My smile, a tattoo, you're happy with what you've created
Tell me to choose like some big suit tycoon

You used to shine, I can't find where you drink it down
Yeah look at me, offer me a watered down potion


7. EAU DE TOILETTE

I know your ways, so when I tell you don't get crazy
but the last wall standing's fell, daddy kicked it down
Your little sister's gonna have a baby

I heard you're planning to drive into the desert
hope you find the gypsy queen there
to make your body feel a little better
I heard some talk around the table
heard someone say your name
They talk like you were a superstar
They know you for what you are

Do you really think it's wise
to try to push the sun back down before it rises?
I know you're used to winning
When are you going to choose the prizes?

You must get tired of standing on the outside
watching the show, tired of all the useless conversation
You know how the boys like their little ladies?
they like them silent, dead, dead quiet

Even though I know you don't believe in dreams
Don't even like to close your eyes
The other night there was a shot outside
You screamed in your sleep
You said Help me I'm still breathing Jesus, sweet Jesus, isn't this enough?

It's been a long time you've been standing in line
just like they've taught you.
Waiting for the view, you'd learned in school
You were entitled to.


8. CARPET

You can burn your paper fingers in the ashtray
Drown your swollen lips in my ruby wine
You can shave your heavy head in my carpeted hallway
Lie on the floor like so many before being sure for the first time
You chose the right clothes to wear

You can burn your paper fingers in the ashtray
Drown your swollen lips in my ruby wine
As you laugh to erase to erase all the dirt in this place
Making sure for the last time together is nowhere


9. PINK

Don't say this:
Leave me with your brown boots behind the door and come to bed.
Everybody lies, I never said I'd be happy
Don't say it, don't injure your mouth trying to show me
Where you've been. I've seen everything
You can't ambush behind the tomcat grin
Sad sad, tomcat
That's a hideous void in your ears
Watching the feet while the song dissapears

Don't say this:
Put on your best suit, wash and go
Get out of my head
Everybody lies but let's be happy
I am gorgeous, pink and skimpy
Let's be famous let's be happy, and obnoxious
Thick and skinny, rich and famous

That's a hideous void in your ears
Watching the sun while the moon dissapears
That's all there is, that's all I know
Got a couple of friends, say I told you so




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