History To The Defeated letra

There's blood in the sink, and he's plunging his wrists in.
A hangover halo is washing away.
Mechanic-school dropout stares into the mirror,
stands up in his derelict daydreams.
Always too tall,
always walked around wearing a smile that was never quite sure of itself.
Planning a future of failures inflicted in phone calls
from strip clubs and bail bonds.
Don't give me that look,
I looked harder than most did,
let details like sharp nails punch holes in my shoes.
Soft-traced to frown as I put the receiver down.
Where do I go for a pardon?
There's a light left on.
There's a pace to our direction.
There's a movie-still of a heart I'd like to mention.
We're listing what's left: a signed Slayer t-shirt,
a car up on blocks in his mother's back yard.

The Weakerthans - Letras

• (Hospital Vespers)
• (Manifest)
• (Past-Due)
• A New Name for Everything
• Anchorless
• Aside
• Benediction
• Bigfoot
• Civil Twilight
• Confessions Of a Futon-revolutionist.
• Diagnosis
• Elegy For Elsabet
• Elegy For Gump Worsley
• Everything Must Go
• Exiles Among You
• Fallow
• Greatest Hits Collection
• History To The Defeated
• Hymn Of The Medical Oddity
• Illustrated Bible Stories for Children
• Leash
• Left And Leaving
• Letter of Resignation
• Maryland Bridge
• My Favourite Chords
• Night Windows
• None of the above
• One Great City!
• Our Retired Explorer (Dines With Michel Folcault In Paris, 1961)
• Pamphleteer
• Past Due
• Plea From A Cat Named Virtue
• Psalm For The Elks Lodge Last Call
• Reconstruction Site
• Relative Surplus Value
• Reunion Tour
• Slips And Tangles
• Sounds Familiar
• Sun In An Empty Room
• The last last one
• The Prescience of Dawn
• The Reasons
• This Is A Fire Door Never Leave Open
• Time's Arrow
• Tournament Of Hearts
• Uncorrected Proofs
• Utilities
• Virtute The Cat Explains Her Departure
• Watermark
• Wellington's Wednesdays
• Without Mythologies