The New Pornographers - Spidyr Lyrics
So you wanted to go toward the streetlights
But the city at night was not for you
Your mind saw sparks, mine saw stars
We played games, we played guitars
I don't know where you are but I'm coming
Spider
Your mind saw spar...
The New Pornographers - Another Drug Deal Of The Heart Lyrics
We can't send it back
Pretend it's yours 'cause it will be
It will still be cracked
Are you sure we bought the right thrill here?
It's a drug deal of the heart
Don't meet me here
Just meet me out on that co...
The New Pornographers - You Won't Need Those Where You're Going Lyrics
My love, she jumped from the top of her game
A lover's leap, never went there again
Said 'You're free to look back, but I'll keep going
You know we built this thing on the not knowing”
We're raw f...
The New Pornographers - Marching Orders Lyrics
What do these marching orders mean?
Some hackneyed fairy tale I'd move outta their dreams
It's what they do
Stepping to
Marching ten paces in front of you
Let's put this countdown clock away
Unfinished parts of the d...
The New Pornographers - Champions Of Red Wine Lyrics
We are champions of red wine, poured all over
It's what we're known for, find arms crossed lines
Crossed for old times, like starting over
Open up the headlamps, be poised to look for
You're coming over, you've do...
The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers Lyrics
Out on the waves
Over the railing asking the crowd
Send you back
To stage its sail it's sailing away
They left behind
Looking for searchlights leading the charge
The mass appeal
To brilliant bruisers taking the wheel
And the...
The New Pornographers - Hi-Rise Lyrics
We're out on the roof
All eyes in the night
Are concentrated and glowing
An explosion effect
Walking on the roof
Of a hi-rise on the moon
You never go where you're going
But points there is room
You're much harder ...
The New Pornographers - You Tell Me Where Lyrics
Take a breather
They came for Caesar
But I don't think he's here
Disiderata
Is that your name now
Glad you came out
You've proved your poison
Is more than noise and
The joy's addictive
Although restrictive
...
The New Pornographers - Backstairs Lyrics
Taking the backstairs...
Before I knew to choose the music of celebrity
I sang backups on the backstairs, the backstairs, the backstairs
I wore out grooves sneaking around the servants' quarters, so
So I knew my way around the...
The New Pornographers - Need Some Giants Lyrics
Assassins drain the deep end, but to leap off or to creep in?
Well inside the thriller genre, it's the long game of the goners
The room is in disguise, it's the lamp's work and that's light
Use the wide le...
The New Pornographers - Leather On The Seat Lyrics
I feel an old road rage, while I wait around
Until the leather on the seat cools down
In the parking lot of a dead mall
I hear the holler of a dying love
I hear the same sound
Falling into harm
Falling into harm
The stor...
The New Pornographers - Colossus Of Rhodes Lyrics
There is no booze left in the house
There is no air left in the room
But still some fuel left for the fire
Colossus of Rhodes
There are no signs of struggle here
There are no signs of forced entry
Could have been ...
The New Pornographers - Wide Eyes Lyrics
Overlooking the canyon,
Right from where I'm standing,
I swear I see my former glory still burning
It had every intent of returning
There's years to planning and landing
To prepare for jumping the canyon
It's not the...
The New Pornographers - Opening Ceremony Lyrics
When we begin to reconstruct events, it lends itself to legend, yes
The amount of love that goes into the sets is very obvious
In this scale model, ship in bottle, swinging from the scaffolding
As the bottle's breaking on the bow...
The New Pornographers - War On The East Coast Lyrics
Last night I dreamt
Vancouver dressed up in the ocean
Last night I dreamt
Victoria drowned in the ocean
The ride of a lifetime
The rites of spring of a lifetime
The ride of a lifetime
The rites of spring of a lifetime
[Bridge:]...
The New Pornographers - Born With A Sound Lyrics
There's death in the breadline
There's deaths on the vine
I wanted you quite often
In that I wanted you all of the time
I've been up all night
I've been up all day
I was into the illusion
I was into the never-e...
The New Pornographers - Dreamlike And On The Rush Lyrics
We've spent too long at the western front
Wasted our words sleeping over there
You can talk yourself into anything
And I can see the Cold War in the whites of your eyes
We like our bolts straight from the blue
But ...
The New Pornographers - Higher Beams Lyrics
Just out of frame, with a passenger's name
Though you're freight pulled behind
It was always a battle to arrive at the station alive
With all the bags to unpack, all the plans for the future to protect
Because we've c...
The New Pornographers - The Surprise Knock Lyrics
Drive off the map into the realm of the stars
Didn't need a war, but now this one is ours
Smile along until the coast is clear
Like anything that you will learn to fear
Let it play in the background, tune out the sound
Did...
The New Pornographers - Fantasy Fools Lyrics
Here come the fortune seekers
Backyard dreams that bleed their secrets
The fortune seekers
Spinning wheels in the sand
All out of body, out of hand
The plan to redirect the arc of time
Is spread out on the bedspread stained with wine...
The New Pornographers - Dancehall Domine Lyrics
They love you with the lights on
Repeat it, recite it
Whenever you feel gentle
Whenever you'll be knighted
Some will have to brave the line
But they're letting you right in
They love you with the lights on
Turn them on b...
The New Pornographers - You'll Need A New Backseat Driver Lyrics
I've heard you get lots of mileage
Out of the speed of sound
It's how we tracked you down
And in the Morse code of the brake lights
In the message it's uttering
The medium is everything
It says 'You're s...
The New Pornographers - Falling Down The Stairs Of Your Smile Lyrics
[Verse 1]
You look just like a star maker
That is not like a star
And you look good on paper
That is the cruelest part
[Verse 2]
So look alive, it's much cheaper
The dead have expensive taste
The look of lights on th...
The New Pornographers - One Kind Of Solomon Lyrics
[Verse 1: A. C. Newman]
Solomon had his following, he heard his calling
In a fever dream at 4 or 5 in the morning
Nothing he thought would enter him into the canon
But he had to take the work the world would hand him, in this gig ec...