Gordon Downie Spoon Lyrics

[Verse 1]
You're transcendent, you taught me so many things
You taught me that help is all we to this dumb planet bring
But one time sticks out for me, you were five, we were working with Bob in Maui
Driving a rental Sebring, the top down, every morning we'd drive on down to

[Verse 2]
Baby Beach and the Pacific Ocean's not the sea, we'll surf the waves
And we'll walk the sand to bring your leg back that you'd broken
And you needed to learn how to walk again and I could help you with all this
To help you is all there is, you showed me that that's all there is
That helping is transcendence

[Verse 3]
And after we'd go and eat at Anthony's
Or we'd drive around and maybe stop and eat Fukushima Hot Dogs
Sittin' on the hood or we'd drive to the top of the volcano called Haleakala
At night we'd stare up at the moon and we did all this listening to
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga by Spoon

[Verse 4]
Months later we were back in Toronto, a Tuesday night, an all ages show
You were so young, we sat in the back row, Deerhunter opened the show
The headliner was introduced, we did our best, we'd have to go soon
We got a T-shirt and we caught five tunes
Just enough to say the first show for us two was Spoon