Endless (Pt. 1 / Oh, Canada Version)

Through my window I knows
About the wind when it blows
About the lights from the road
And their every nightly glow

Yes and o how they'd explode
If she should decide to show
Up among this empty-handedness
Endless

Take my feet to the bar
Where I know you at not are
Take my coins and place them there
Make that sound I love to hear
Cause I have been long against this night
I been a mess my whole life
And I don't care what happens next
Endless

Still the dawn fills with needs
And my tongue fills with fleas
And your ghost fills my sight
And then the gathering light
Is laying soft around your feet
As you turn to ask of me
Is it long, my love, until we rest?
Endless
How long, my love, until we rest?
Endless

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Where To Strip (Oh, Canada Version)

Bleeding and laughing
Naked to fall in the snow
Your favorite drinkin’ buddies
Oh brother oh brother oh

Your neighbors have all gone missing
Your timing is always off
Bless you and keep you
Oh brother oh brother oh

Please, I've waited
Please, I've waited
Please. I have waited

Back where you learned where to strip bare
It smells there like fire and dogs
Saved be the light that you leave on
Oh brother oh brother oh

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Remain (Oh, Canada Version)

The stars would know
To send you the shivers
And night would glow
In the room in which you swim
Filled with breath
Of people making bird sounds
And topless girls
With pretty messy hair

And swirling around
Is that swollen sound
Of horns all astrayed
From some eternal parade

Hey I got fits
And a fire in my belly
And shiny lips
Can, fumbling, find a seal
The water, dear
Can touch you all over
But nothing here
Can touch the way you feel

This difficult and lovely story
Of your birth in the air
And recovering from that

You'll hold me here
Until I can't afford your kindness
You'll hold me, dearUntil I can't afford to leave
And lightning real is leaning out and calling
But there's all of that doubt
Plus all of that skin

But all is grace
And all is beauty
And when all this is gone
Beauty will remain

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All Of It, All (Oh, Canada Version)

A coward this morning
Black after backing away
And no explanation
Could ever explain it away

But could your bones be so bright?
And would it all be all right
If you laid them tonight
With me, safe beside

The thing about lifetimes
Is sometimes you have to be cruel
It's sad that it's sad
But don't let that dampen you

No, to live you must die
Yes and more than one time
You must kiss it goodbye
And then never go back to that life

Your arms can be magic
It all can be magic you know
You all ways can have it
But not like you wanted I know

There is only one way
It's the onliest way
You must give it away
I mean give. It all. Away.

Your hands have fingers
And fingers are muscles
And muscles they pull
And, pulling they told you how
Someone once told me
We'd always be pulling it all