Winter time and the frozen river
Sunday afternoon
They're playing hockey on the frozen river
Rosie...!
You skate as fast as you can 'til you hit the snowbank
(that's how you stop)
And you buy your sweater through the catalogue
Sailing on
Rosie...!
You'll have that scar on your chin forever you know
Looks bad now, but someday your girlfriend will say "Hey, what...?"
You might look out the window... Or not
Don't let those Sunday afternoons
Get away get away get away get away
Break away break away break away break away
This stick was signed by Jean Belliveau
so don't f**kin' tell me where to f**kin' go...
f**k f**k f**k f**k!
Sunday afternoon
Hey, your dog just stole the puck- ahh... not my dog
You get it - your turn
They rioted in the streets of Montreal when they benched Rocket Richard,
and that is true bona fide Canadian history, that's what really counts
That's what we're all about
Don't let those Sunday afternoons
Get away get away get away get away
Break away break away break away break away
You use your rubber boots for goal-posts
and you're so proud of that, cause they're your boots that they're usin'
that...
Oh... walkin' home
There's some people fishin' in those fishin' huts down the river
Smoking big cigars and telling stories of long ago
Rosie...!
The sun is setting on the frozen river
And the willow trees with their long fingers
hanging over the banks
and somewhere far away in a distant memory is a little boy sittin' on a log
with bare feet, bruised knees
fishin' fishin'
dreamin' of one day... one day
They're playin' hockey on the frozen river
The wind is dying down
Don't let those Sunday afternoons
Don't let those Sunday afternoons
Make me a deal
And make it good for me
I won't get full of myself
'Cause I cant afford to be
This is small town music
This is big town music
He's ahead of his time, you know
But he can't use it
If only he could prove it
Well, tomorrow's just a song away, a song away, a song away
Oh, and tomorrow's just a song away, a song away, a song away
It's just a song away
Hey!
See what your man has done to the world
See what the world has done to your man
You know I'm leaving you
You don't need me
Lovin' you wasn't
Always so easy
This is believe me music
This is forget me music
This is who can love me, you know
This ain't no Roxy music
This is new form music
This is old form music
This is I paid attention, now
So, this is prediction music
Oh, who could let me use it
Oh, tomorrow's just a song away, a song away, a song away
Oh, and tomorrow's just a song away, a song away, a song away
It's just a song away
Yeah! Woo! Huh! Uh! Hey!
Well, and I want to write a truthful song
Over an eighties groove
I like to let you know
I'll always be straight with you
I stole my personality
From an anonymous source
And I'm gonna pay for it, too
I don't feel bad about that
Give me my chance back
Well, this is on the rise music
This is novelty music
This is who can blame music
I don't get fooled by it
This is where'd you go music
This is come home music
This is down to the wire
I'm such a perfect angel music
Who really tries
Oh, and tomorrow's just a song away, a song away, a song away
Oh, and tomorrow's just a song away, a song away, a song away
Aw, well, this is success music
And what's it to ya?
My lawyer always says
These are the facts about the future
Well, tomorrow's just a song away, a song away, a song away
Oh, well, tomorrow's just a song away, a song away, a song away
Oh, well, tomorrow's just a song away, a song away, a song away
Hold up a picture of a highway
And a picture of a home
And a picture of some money
And a picture of some bones
All together, all in a row
But out of all those pictures
You'll only notice one
But it's really not important
No, it's no more than a fortune
It just shows what doors are open
If you're looking at the home
Well, your feet are scared
You're looking at the road
You're gonna feel restless for a while
Yes, for a while, for a while
If you're looking at the money
Well, you benefit from the army
You're looking the bones
Well, you got some silly reasons in their eyes
Yes, in their eyes, in their eyes
This the song, this the song
The song of four holy photos
They never look into their own eyes
It's the second closest you'll get
There's settlement of foreigners
In a land that they can't see
Where the birds are always singing
And the water runs clean
But all these things
Told them nothing
There's a makeshift church
And there's a hand that pulls a rope
And the rope swings the bells
As they ring into the trees
And make an echo
And it never stops
Well, so I hung up those pictures
In their foraminous place
Where their mood is a little nervous
But they felt they had a reason enough to stay
So they stayed
And no one when they looked
Could even see the bones at all
The leaders took the money
And the others took the color of the road
Yes, and the home
And no one argued
It was one of them who did
And he spoke on what he saw
And ruined his reputation
He was labeled as a misfit
Ah, you know
That's just what saints get sometimes
This the song, this the song
The song of four holy photos
They never look into their own eyes
Oh, well
An easy life
That I never wanted
We agree
Headlong worked out I see
Is there a way that we could skip this part?
Because one time when I lose someone
Every time they wanted to cry for me
All my life I guess I'm down with that
It might be worth it
All I say is
It's too much work, work, working
Just too much work for me
It's too much work, work, working
Just too much work for me
And so I saw you running on
I always knew you wouldn't come up with it
And I always, always look forward
That you wouldn't, wouldn't come up it
And you're just, just a big talker
I'm like you
And we don't, don't worry about it now
I really love when someone talks back to me
Even though it's work, work, work, yeah
Whoa it's too much work for me
It's too much work, work, working
Just so much work for me
It's too much work, work, work
Uh-oh uh-oh
It's too much work, work, work
Uh-oh uh-oh
It's too much work, work, work
Uh-oh uh-oh
It's too much work, work, work
Uh-oh uh-oh
And I guess there's a lot to learn
Well from a life of very fast days
Yes and I guess there's a lot to learn
All from a life of take-what-you-want-days
Oh, well me, well I just don't know
I'm just a preacher not a spiritual role
Oh well come on, just figure it out with me
Even though I know it's so
So much work, work, work, yeah
Just so much work for us
So much work, work, working
Just so much work for us
So much work, work, work
Uh-oh uh-oh
So much work, work, work
Uh-oh uh-oh
So much work, work, work
Uh-oh uh-oh
So much work, work, work
Uh-oh uh-oh
I tell 'em straight up
I'll do it, I shouldn't have to
Tell 'em straight up, yeah
I'll do it but I shouldn't have to
Tell 'em straight up
Yo, I'll do it, I shouldn't have to
So much work, work, work, yeah
Just so much work for me
That too much work, work, work, yeah
Whoa so much work for me
Far too much work, work, work, yeah
Whoa so much work for me
I won't turn away
I won't turn away
She only takes it all away
And no, I won't turn away
I won't turn away
Only for a few more days
Ohh cuz I
I still dont know how your game goes,
And I'm almost out the door
So, Baby put the game down
I'm gonna be a man, allright
I suggest you put the game down
Gonna work it out tonight
Tonight, You know you got to give it up
Yeah
The masqerade styles got no place
My future is the gold/ghost that I've got for being (my faith ?)
Oooh
Cheers
I'm gonna doing my old fears
Hanging on to the edge of the formal years
Have I ever met you, no?
The stars, they gonna shine and shine
The music goes and goes
All night
But have you ever met me, no?
Oh cuz I, I still dont know how your game goes
And I'm almost out the door
So, baby put the game down
I'm gonna be a man, allright
Just put the game down
Gonna work it out, out, tonight
Tonight, you know you got to give it up
The masqerade styles got no place
My future is the gold/ghost that I've got for being (my faith ?)
Oooh
Yeah
Why don't you try, believing me harder
Let's make a click
You'll remember all your fears and doubts,
Oh oh yeah
So even tough...(?)
Easy to mess like a
Song catching something on a,
First you was ...(?) I was there to kiss
Have I ever met you, no?
I'm allmost done with
Any feeling was
Nothing hurt an artist like,
Wasting time, ooh, anyone at all
So why would you.(?)
Oh cuz I, I still dont know how your game goes
And I'm almost out the door
Baby put the game down
I'm gonna be a man, allright
Baby put the game down, yeah
Gonna work it out, tonight
Baby put the game down
Im gonna be a man, allright
Baby put the game down
Wooohow
I'm gonna be a man, allright
I suggest you put the game down
Woow
I'm gonna be a man, allright
Just put the game down, ooo o o oh
Gonna work it out, out, tonight
Tonight, you know you got to give it up
(ooh)
The masqerade styles got no place
My future is the gold/ghost that I've got for being (my faith ?)
Gonna learn to fly
Land in Spain
Then I took a bus and I took a train
Got down South
Met this man
Mario the (guitarist's hair?)
You don't like music
From the West
Bite his nails
Practise scales
Metronome plays all night and day
I go out for tea and the flamenco came
But go
Well it's always night
Well it's always night
Yeah I'll go to Rome
Rooftop slums
Dead beneath pipes and gypsy drums
Shade of my cash and drop my class
Rent out a piano behind stained glass
And go
Well it's always night
Green laser light
-Down streets say they're selling hash
-Just make em grass
- Robbery yeah they're selling out fast
- Old folks say that they're safe as day Were the facist ones
Yeah but I don't know
Well I got the money but the money got me
It was all the same in spain
Well you loved me but you still lost me
Cheated me such away-ay-ay
I'll make the money but the money made me
It was all the same in spain
Well I bought the drugs and the drugs bought me
It's no running away-ay-ay
Discotheques don't start till 3
So I'll mess with the? in the alpine streets
- She's said I always used to be so clean
Love's no fun
Say what d'ya mean
- She was looting me without looting herself
Getting me bored with the things she felt
Said this music sucks
I'm down on my luck
Can't get no sleep
And then load the trucks
So Monday
Tuesday
Friday
Yeah 3 o'clock rolled around
So we went downtown
- Hit the stall but we only play underground
I walked in and I just hit the ceiling
Everyone here's in love with the feeling
Live a life at night
Oh a life of might
And so
I know the motto goes
I will know when I see it
I got the money but the money got me
It was all the same in spain
Well you loved me but you still lost me
Cheated me such away-ay-ay
I'll make the money but the money made me
It was all the same in spain
Well I bought the drugs and the drugs bought me
It's no running away-ay-ay
Well it's just my life
Cause the time was right
It was so much fun
With a clean cut job
With the hire cops
Knew my day would come
Oh please
Don't convince me
Already see
It's just my life
Cause the time was right
And it was so much fun
I wanna go home
A 29 year old
Next patriot from
America's South
In light of the background
The queen of the designer crowds
Must have been the only time
She got turned on
I got the money but the money got me
It was all the same in spain
Well you loved me but you still lost me
Cheated me such away-ay-ay
I'll make the money but the money made me
It was all the same in spain
Well I bought the drugs and the drugs bought me
It's no running away-ay-ay
I messed up
My life
Cause the time was right
- It was so much fun
- It was a clean cut job
With the hire cops
Knew my day would come
Oh even please
Don't convince me
You know I already see
Cause the time was right
And it was so much fun
Cause the time was right
It was so much fun
- It was a clean cut job
- With the hire cops
Knew my day would come
Oh even please
Don't convince me
Well I don't know what you been told
but the greatest thing in the whole wide world
Is a game is our life's
we pray to the gods of
H.O.C.K.EY
we worship hockey
H.O.C.K.EY
we worship hockey
So now you know and you been told
what the greatest sport is in the whole wide world
Is a game is our life's
we pray to the gods of
H.O.C.K.EY
we worship hockey
H.O.C.K.EY
I dont know what to do.
I dont know what to do.
I dont know what to do.
I dont know what to do.
All the times its worked.
All the times ive saw.
All the times ive left.
Well you know ive got to learn to lose for a while.
Well you know ive got to learn to lose for a while.
Well i guess ive got to learn you used to be mine.
Well you know ive got to learn learn learn
You used to be mine.
And how i wish, to turn my troubles to gold.
And i long to be done with all these nightmare miles.
They got behind my shoes, and they got behind my style.
Im goin down the river fast times
See all the towns ive worked.
See all the towns ive known.
See all the towns ive craved.
Well you know ive got to learn to lose for a while.
Well you know ive got to learn to lose for a while.
Well i guess ive got to learn you used to be mine.
Well you know ive got to learn learn learn
You used to be mine
And how i wish, to turn my toubles to gold.
I dont know what to do.
I dont know what to do.
I dont know what to do.
I dont know what to do.
Last time i lost control of
My confidence it took me
Five years to get it back
And took my good chances from me
And Ive made some good arrangements
Ive made some bad arrangements
Dont know which one came first
I promise that its reverce.
Now how close did you get to the end of the line?
Well you know ive got to learn to lose for a while.
Well you know ive got to learn to lose for a while.
Well you guess ive got to learn you used to be mine.
Well you know youve got to learn learn learn learn learn.
You know ive got to learn to lose for a while.
Well you know ive got to learn to lose for a while.
And how i wish, to turn my troubles to gold.
You know ive got to learn.
You know youve got to learn.
I'm gonna curse this city if it robs me
Im gonna curse this city if it robs me one more time
before it even knew me it forgot me
I'm gonna curse this city if it robs me one more time
yeah All around the world today
Power is the measure oh no
Power is the only drug they don't want you to remember oh no
All around the world power gets no pressure oh no
Power is the only drug you never got no lectures on
And hope showed up one day
Then all the people say
The time, the time has come
Alright let's give it a name and oh
Listen all my friends
Who's gospel is who's pain
From the Hudson to the Rhine
Every place every time
I'm gonna curse this city if it robs me
Im gonna curse this city if it robs me one more time
before it even knew me it forgot me
I'm gonna curse this city if it robs me one more time
Yeah all around the world today
Power is the measure oh no
Power is the only drug they don't want you to remember oh no
If you really want to rise get your work done on someone else's time
In the prize ring of the world, it's all about the millionaire gods
And hope showed up one day
But don't name it leave it blank
Or sorrow gets the same name
And everyone makes everyone else pay
and oh, isn't this nice
I'll never see you in this life
From the Hudson to the Rhine
Every place every time
A million reasons one high or really?
Strait Machiavellian fears all around me
A national treasure passed out in the ally
Manhattan sky bridge all covered in rust
CEO post madonna don't know what's up
He went blind to the world and mistook me for a G man.
Who envies who?
Who gave status to who?
What's the story with heaven now meet me at the pantheon
I checked my grandmothers ring I should have carried it on
Sent my bags to eden still at the gate
In the prize ring of the world look for me
I'll be the one who don't know
how to cheat
But I know
How to do this kind of thing
Yes I do
I'm gonna curse this city if it robs me one more time x 8
I"m gonna love this city if it only helps me shine shine shine
I''m gonna love this city if it only helps me shine shine shine
I'm gonna love this city but please don't make me try try try so hard
I'm gonna love this city if it only helps me shine shine shine
Those other cities just tried me
Told more than a few lies to me
So I cursed them kindly and was long gone
I"m gonna love this city
if it only helps me shine shine shine
I''m gonna love this city if
it only helps me shine shine shine
I'm gonna love this city but please don't make me try try try so hard/
I'm gonna love this city
if it only helps me shine shine shine
Those other cities don't know me
If you only knew how much they owed me
I was the right person in the wrong place
Good god almighty but
This city wont take no brides
It's got reasons if
it's on your side
I'm gonna love this city if it only only only
On the streets'
I never could realize what was the problem,
oh no
Why am i getting cut out this way?
Oh I just couldn't see,
My leather coat, (?)
Or who's looking at me.
I couldn't pull it off,
The world could stay looking just how it would like,
Without looking left or right.
And it goes;
When I was young,
I only wanted to be black.
And I would have payed,
To weigh a word I won and still relax.
What's your plans for the night?
Indeed up at the no, (?)
I'll get on my face gear. (?)
And purple or black ties;
Your dressed just right,
For your decade, true.
Your dressed just right,
For your age.
What used to be a stage is just a phase now.
You're not going up through life,
Yeah, slowly just like changing channels on your TV.
That's not how its supposed to be.
oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
And it goes:
When I was young,
I only wanted to be black.
And I woulda payed,
To weigh a word I won and still relax. (?)
And everyone,
At the time,
Was only classic then,
Only classic then.
And everyone,
At this time,
Is only classic now,
Only classic now.
What kind of accomplishment is a throw back?
I was the first one to prefer that.
Everyone's making dance music, true.
But we started in 2002.
So what the future don't appeal to you?
Well no one's supposed to enjoy the shoes.
When I was young yeah, I wore 'em to school.
But I had 'em only like something to lose.
You got your eyes on an owl, (?)
Your fashionable goals,
You can never make it.
oh no
Anyway who could pull it off,
When everything casts as the future,
Or retro?
I got beat up for my clothes.
oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
And it goes:
When I was young,
I only wanted to be black.
And I woulda payed,
To weigh a word I won and still relax. (?)
oh And everyone,
At the time,
Was only classic then,
Only classic then.
And everyone,
At this time,
Is only classic now,
Preacher could you save my soul?
I've been on some roads in my car alone.
Preacher could you save my soul?
Got the scares of where they say Ill go.
A runaway train man,
is gona teach you how to pray now.
Yeah if I make it out alive,
I've got to play it back to my life.
April sister got her man
He comes from a rockin band.
If she wants to marry him, no
Shes gotta tell it to her mother.
Thats true,
oh how could you replace me,
theyre throwing roses from the balcony.
Well theyre falling in the aisles now
Rose me!
Why cant you hold me?
Why cant you save me?
Now preacher why cant you reach me?
Oh no (something)
Why cant you make me?
Why cant you break me?
Now preacher why cant you preach me?
Gotta know. oh no no
Latin music cadillacs
Trash can gambling Gangs
The pentacostal on the block
Official today
I was on the corner just having a cig
A hand from the sky put my dice away
It wasnt good for me (get the dice outta way)
I KNOW, Had to throw them all any number face
Thats true,
But I cant even stand up.
So many wonderful people here.
Theyre all dumb enough
to play their dreams
Yeah ill take her with me!
Why cant you hold me?
Why cant you save me?
Now preacher why cant you reach me?
Why cant you make me?
Why cant you break me?
Now preacher why cant you preach me?
Gotta know, oh no no.
(interlude)
I asked once of a poor preacher I knew
What was it like to live and to have someone ask me of for you
he said my friend theyre just coming up through life
been doing it all their lives
they just saw me but you know
that they loved me too
Faith is retrospective now,
Youll only know if it was true in your head.
Some guys like having a purpose
its ok when they care
Preacher could I save your soul?
Do you know every single thing I know?
Year preacher could I save your soul?
I know its stupid but its happened before.
Year preacher could I pray to god.
Can not stand when theyre losing heart.
Oh preacher now what do you say?
Is it now ok to pray that way?
Oh preacher could you save my soul?
Ive got it packed all ready to go.
Yeah preacher could you save my soul?
(something)
Preacher could I pray to god?
(something) always losing heart
Oh preacher now what do you say?
(something)
I do anything that I'm told to
I even mean it if I'm supposed to
Lead me on a little, I go for broke
Lead me on some more
I go for the big toke
Everybody's watching, but nobody cares
Oh wait, does it go
Nobody's watching, but everybody cares
Oh whatever talk to you later
Look out, 'cause I'm just too fake for the world
I know it's just a game to me
I'm just too fake you see
I wish I didn't have to be, but watch out
I got too much soul for the world
It's breaking my heart in two
I got too much soul for you
I don't like it but it's true
I go to church if I'm expected to
I'll be lost soul
They need examples to use
I could stay forever or leave right now
It's your call, either way
It's time to use my life for myself
(most people just won't tell you that)
I'm gonna use my life for someone else, yeah
No wait wait wait wait
Look out, 'cause I'm just too fake for the world
Oh you know it's just a game to me
I'm just too fake you see
I wish I didn't have to be, but
Oh I got too much soul for the world
And it's breaking my heart in two
I got too much soul for you
I don't like it but it's true
I can't even talk to you
About my effect on people
'Cause I'm doing the same thing to you
That's right even right now
Oh just wait up for me if you want to but
Look out, now
I'm just too fake for the world
Oh you know it's just a game to me
I'm just too fake you see
I hope you can forgive me
Oh now, I got too much soul for the world
And it's breaking my heart in two
I got too much soul for you
I don't like it but it's true
Look out, now
I'm just too fake for the world
And there's nothing I can do about
No, I'm just too fake for you
I don't like it but it's true
Look out
I got too much soul for the world
It's breaking my heart in two
I got too much soul for you
I don't like it, but it's true
Look out, I'm just too fake for the world
I know it's just a game to me
I'm just too fake you see
I hope you can forgive me
Look out now
Yeah, everybody's got a soul to shine I know
I want to be good enough for someone but no one says it like that
Yeah, Britain's favorite junky of '04 I know
First they're gonna build him up and then just let him go
No, it's not the same
When they call me by my name these days
Because I know by the sound
That they don't know who I am, oh no, no
Well, I only dance 3 times a year
And I only say what I feel
'Cause it's worth it you know
Yeah, you know
Yeah, everybody's got a soul to shine I know
I want to be good enough for someone but just don't say it like that
One girl on fire just trying now to keep it out I see
The harder that she tries more bright it's gonna shine you see
No, it's not the same
When they call me by my name these days
Because I know by the sound
That they don't know who I am, oh no, no
I only say what I feel, I only feel three times a year
Sike, everyone feels all the time
And when the light's went out of the sky
Over my grandparents farm in July I said I'm gonna play the NBA
