by The New Pornographers on album Brill Bruisers

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 Unfinish

by The New Pornographers on album Brill Bruisers

Before I knew to choose the music of celebrity I sang backups on the backstairs, the backstairs, the backstairs I wore a groove sneaking around the servants' quarters so So I knew my way around the ba

by The New Pornographers on album Brill Bruisers

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 sp

by The New Pornographers on album Brill Bruisers

Here come the fortune seekers Backyard dreams beat 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 bedspr

by The New Pornographers on album Brill Bruisers

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 o

by The New Pornographers on album Brill Bruisers

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

by The New Pornographers on album Brill Bruisers

There's death in the bread line There's death on the vine I wanted you quite often In that I wanted you all of the time *two singers* I've been up all night I've been up all day I was into the illus

by The New Pornographers on album Just Tell Me That You Want Me: A Tribute To Fleetwood Mac

All it took was a special look And I felt I knew you before Didn't mean to love you Didn't think it would work out But I knew we would be together And I couldn't wait for more But what can they say I

by The New Pornographers on album iTunes Live from SoHo

I leapt across three or four beds into your arms Where I had hidden myself somewhere in your charm Our golden handshake has been smashed into this shape It's taken magic to a primitive new place Watc

by The New Pornographers on album iTunes Live from SoHo

Go to now after picking the glass off the ground. Go to now after shaking the thing for a sound. Do we see what the clock makes you do? But I won't let this happen to you. In a town where I lost ever

by The New Pornographers on album iTunes Live from SoHo

In every story, every secret told You are not the first to wake up To learn your lines before you have the part You woke up early and you walk up torn You the temporary boarder The heat wave humming i

by The New Pornographers on album iTunes Live from SoHo

It was crime at the time But the laws, we changed 'em Though the hero for hire's Forever the same one ducing for the first time Pharaoh on the microphone Sing all hail What'll be revealed today When

by The New Pornographers on album iTunes Live from SoHo

Balancing on One wounded wing Circling the edge Of the neverending The best of the vanished marvels have gathered inside your door More than begin But less than forget But spirits born From the not h

by The New Pornographers on album iTunes Live from SoHo

Yes I know it was late We were greeting the sun Before long And you live with someone I live with somebody too Leave it there For safe keeping One of the west village in plains That was the custom C

by The New Pornographers on album iTunes Live from SoHo

When John he saw the numbers he lied Made up the whole thing, failed when he tried To cash in on his cautious new fame Always the numbers but never the name When we hit the numbers we broke Broke in

by The New Pornographers on album iTunes Live from SoHo

the cat calls through the night and two chicks in the parking lot crack wise on the price of fame they stood to gain the phonebook's been ripped off and two shapes in the dark across the way know the

by The New Pornographers on album Whiteout Conditions

Cover your eyes, surprise your fate It's only an avalanche away, you're safe It's only a scratch, you're great Several years after the flood Your singularity under the gun So late, so late

by The New Pornographers on album Whiteout Conditions

We were not quite young when You call it clockwise Go unchallenged In the light of the life In the struggle to rule the second string In the valley of the middle fingers In the valley of lead

by The New Pornographers on album Whiteout Conditions

Been through here, crystal ball You crashed, shattered into souls above you There are rules here, into shapes You can, can and so you will surrender Juke you out (Feels like the dawn took you

by The New Pornographers on album Whiteout Conditions

Here is the quick rundown We've been here before It's best not to wander far 'Cause we've been here before We couldn't find a way out When we were here, the first time Now it's lines we're lea