World Container Lyrics - Printable Version

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- daylight - 10-11-2006

Gortron Wrote:In Luv (sic) what is Gord saying in this part...

Am I lovesick?
It's as if love is the only _______?

Virtue, I think. Er, "virtue there is", if you want the full line.

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Re: World Container Lyrics - tigerthelion - 10-11-2006

anothersaab Wrote:

worldpeace Wrote:Though, you're so real.
and you (?) every day.

and you're more real every day?

"you're more youth every day"

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- tigerthelion - 10-11-2006

emperor penguin Wrote:Edit, here is my best effort at "World Container"

There’s a world container with your name on it
It aint a billion ways to go berzerk
When the country quits on you it must be dinner
And the Himmler on this one is there’s no desert
He’s the one who couldn’t imagine
All the people living life in peace
Yooouuu, good news, you get to vanish
Go to Cleveland beyond Indy smash
The good news is now you’re smaller
The bad news is you can be smaller than that
Go suck some souls, be a reader get used
Laugh at a funeral or two
Laugh and laugh till all the chameleons turn black
Laugh and laugh till your told please don’t come back
Then think incredulous, say I just can’t believe
How’d it get this late so early
Say aint life a grand and I meant all your all
And drop into your haunted bunk
Go to your touchless times
Out where the waters join
Go past the no tractions past this point sign
What you’ll find there are all flaws in progress
Where all songs are one song and that song is don’t forget
Yea all songs are one song and that song is don’t forget
Yea I faked incredulous and I just can’t believe
How’d it get this late so early
Said aint life a grand and I meant all of your all
I dropped into my haunted bunk
Been to the touchless times
Out where the waters join
been past the no tractions past this point sign
what we have here are all flaws in progress
Where all songs are one song and that song is don’t forget
Where all songs are one song and that song is don’t forget
Where all songs are one song and that song is dont forget

Great job. A few minor adjustments I think might be::

1) and a billion ways to go berserk

2) i'm in awe of y'all

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- FighterAndLover - 10-11-2006

tigerthelion Wrote:2) i'm in awe of y'all

makes sense based on TNIT

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- Corby - 10-11-2006

for kids:

I'll be the antlers,
I'll be the elk.
I'll be the right whale
And I'll be parallel.

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- TLB - 10-12-2006

took a stab at Luv (sic)

(words in bold I'm not sure of)

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the words I carry in my heart
words I carry in my heart
clung to glad of uncommonly hell
and kill your lay, interlaced
remembered and felt

am I luv (sic)
it's as if love's the only virtue there is
am I luv (sic)

what lives emotions get freyed
attractions move through the shade
done for delighting
and forever hell
influence the then life
remembered and felt

am I luv (sic)
it's not as if love's the only virtue there is
am I luv (sic)

it's not fair to hate
you can't hate can
got nothing, you're saved
it's all a plan
it gets hard to remember
will this when we're tender

words I carry in my heart
clung to glad of uncommonly hell
and kill your lay, interlaced
remembered and felt

am I luv (sic)
maybe love is the only virtue there is
am I luv (sic)

luv (sic), luv (sic)
love is the only virtue there is
am I luv (sic)
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- Tthip - 10-12-2006

Hey Guys - here are the lyrics:
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Yer Not the Ocean

Again, I’m talking to the lake
I’m standing on the rocks
Yer not the ocean
I’m better to watch
Britney invisible
or the stranger in myself
than a wall of water just hitting the shelf

Yer not the ocean
You’re up to my toes
Yer not the ocean
You’re not even close

Though you’re so real
and you’ve more youth everyday
and you can think and feel
and get out of your own way
and though I’m nothing
you are just a lake
made to take it
and take and take and take

Yer not the ocean
I’m standing on my toes
Yer not the ocean
You’re not even close
Yer not the ocean
You’re up to my chin
Yer not the ocean
You’re not coming in

You’re not coming in
You’re not coming in
You’re not coming in

Yer not the ocean
You’re up to my chin
Yer not the ocean
You’re not coming in

You’re not coming in
You’re not coming in
You’re not coming in
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The Lonely End of the Rink

I looked up and you were there
just sitting there all alone
holding your fist in the air
like, if you need me you’re on your own

You drove me home through a snowy tomb
I fell asleep in my seat
I had the dream of having no room
you were there just staring at me

At the lonely end of the rink, you and me
At the lonely end of the rink, you and me

Oh to join the rush
as the season builds

I hear your voice ‘cross a frozen lake
a voice from the end of a leaf
saying, ‘you won’t die of a thousand fakes
or be beaten by the sweetest of dekes’

At the lonely end of the rink, you and me
At the lonely end of the rink, you and me
At the lonely end of the rink, you and me
At the lonely end of the rink, the lonely end of the rink

Oh to join the rush
as the season builds
Jump into the rush
as the seasons build

You drove me home through a snowy gloom
and I fell asleep in my seat
then I had the dream of having no room
you were there just staring at me

At the lonely end of the rink, you and me
At the lonely end of the rink, you and me
At the lonely end of the rink, you and me
At the lonely end of the rink, the lonely end of the rink.
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In View

I love you. You know I do
Yea, it’s perfect…well, it isn’t and it is

And I’ve been meaning to call you
I’ve been meaning to call you
Then I do
I’ve been meaning to call you
I’ve been meaning to call you
Then I do

Phone rings once
Phone rings twice
Phone rings three times

I am of you
You are in everything I do
I do

I trust you, that makes you true
I don’t care if it isn’t the way it is

I’ve been meaning to call you
I’ve been meaning to call you
Then I do

Phone rings once
Phone rings twice
Phone rings three times

I am of you
You are always in view
Yea, I am my will
But you are in everything I do
I do. I do. I do

In the Day Eraser’s dark of night
In the Excited States, gone in plain sight
Under the wave or by cavelight
I lose, things change, but never in your eyes

I am of you
You are always in view
I am my will
You are in everything I do
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Fly

Seventy days to cross the ocean
Seventy nights where no one’s gonna hear me fall
Freddie Mercury, “I’ve sometimes wished
I’d never been born at all”

I remain unphotographed yea
I don’t exaggerate my intelligence
I might turn a broom into a tree
But I’ll never be one of them

I fly, cause there’s no why in getting beaten up by
a guy who cries before he fights

I don’t want em to see me like this
The way they like to kick people when their down
You said, ‘please stop worrying bout this
They stop kicking once you’re down’

There’s Mistaken Point, Newfoundland
There’s Moonbeam, Ontari-ari-o
There are places I’ve never been
and always wanted to go

I fly, cause woe betide a guy who just lives to fight
Fly, love is to try and die trying

Fly, yea, that’s right
Fly, yea, that’s right
Try, love is to try and die trying

Coastline rising out of the ocean
Coastline rises like a pair of glowing thighs
Theres something down deep inside me says,
‘Where ya been all my life.’

Fly, turn your back, get your face in the sky
Fly, love is to try and die trying
Try, left and right, across your mind
Try, love is to try and die trying
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Luv (sic)

There are words I carry in my heart
Words I carry in my heart
Clung to
Glad of
Uncommonly held
Peculiarly interlaced
Remembered and felt
Am I lovesick?
It’s as if love’s the only virtue there is
Am I lovesick?

The plot thins, emotions get frayed
Attractions move through the shade
Done for
Delight in
And forever held
Influence
Given life
Remembered and felt
Am I lovesick?
It’s not as if love’s the only virtue there is
Am I lovesick?

It’s nothing to hate
Who can’t hate can
Got nothing ‘gainst hate
It’s all the planning
It gets hard to remember
We’re best when we’re tender

There are words I carry in my heart
Words I carry in my heart
Words I carry in my heart
Clung to
Glad of
Uncommonly held
Peculiarly interlaced
Remembered and felt
Am I lovesick?
Maybe love is the only virtue there is
Am I lovesick?
Lovesick, lovesick
‘Love is the only virtue there is’
Am I lovesick?
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The Kids Don't Get It

You said, ‘If I ask you a question,
are you gonna lie to me?’
I said, ‘honey, is that your question?
cuz honey, that one’s easy’
cuz half the truth is, just how much there is
The kids don’t get it
No. The kids don’t get it

I’m gonna be an expert stranger,
better than the giant squid
I’m gonna leave the stranger experts
scratching their heads, saying, ‘how’d he do it?!’
When half the truth is, just how hard it is
But the kids don’t get it
No. The kids won’t get it

I’ll be the antlers and I’ll be the elk
I’ll be the right whale and I’ll be parallel
The kids don’t get it
That’s right, kids don’t get it

I’ll feel more than human when the work’s hitting home
I’ll be aped by my ancestors. I’ll state the plan as my own
I’ll be gripping the city, I’ll be hitting the town
You’ll say. ‘I’d be hurt if you didn’t, when I come around’
That’s right, kids don’t get it

I’ll be as careless as you are certain.
I’ll get outta my own way
I’ll stop to cry into the curtains
and like the greats, before me, go on stage
And if half-true its, good enough for this
cuz the kids don’t get it
No. The kids don’t get it
If I ask you a question,
ya gonna lie to me?
Ah honey is that your question?
cuz that one’s easy

Kids don’t get it
Just how hard it is
Kids don’t get it
Just how much there is
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Pretend

If I ask you a question
are you going to lie to me?
Is that your question?
Because that one is easy

It’s gripping the city
and hitting the town
and no one on earth is
doing this now

If you can pretend
and I can pretend
pretending won’t end
and then and well then…

If you take the chances
I’ll take the bows
saying ‘no one on earth is
doing this now’

But if I ask you a question
are you gonna lie to me?
Is that your question?
Because that one is easy

If you don’t pretend
and I don’t pretend
pretending might end
but pretend can pretend to end

You can’t pretend
Yes I can. Yes I can. Yes I can.
You can’t pretend
Yes I can. Yes I can. Yes I can.

You can’t pretend
Yes I can. Yes I can. Yes I can.

You can’t pretend
Yes I can. Yes I can. Yes I can.
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Last Night I Dreamed You Didn't Love Me

you kissed my fingers and made me love you

Last night when we went to hell
When the blood-starred curtain fell
Men were turning on their machines, making everything mean
Fires burned, cold values clashed
Good and evil were all dry grass
No child-ghost, no singing bird, no last laugh, no last word
oh
Last night I dreamed, last night I dreamed darkly nurtured dreams
None of them were quite as frightening
oh
Canada emptied, there was me, featureless and freezing
Last night I dreamed you didn’t love me

you kissed my fingers and made me love you

Last night you left me derelict
and disappeared for ages
You just said ‘honey save those tears of yours for the show,
oh
Last night I dreamed, last night I dreamed darkly nurtured dreams
none of them were half as frightening
oh
Canada emptied there was me, beside you, featureless and freezing
Last night I dreamed you didn’t love me.
You didn’t love me.
What’s happening to you?
Why don’t you love me like you used to?
When you kissed my fingers and you made me love you
When you kissed my fingers and you made me love you

Last night I dreamed, last night I dreamed darkly nurtured dreams
None of them, none as frightening,
oh
Awake empty and out of sleep, you were beside me gently breathing
Last night I dreamed you didn’t love me
You didn’t love me
You didn’t love me
Why don’t you love me like you used to?
When you kissed my fingers and you made me love you

When you kissed my fingers and you made me love you
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The Drop-Off

When the summer is young
and nobody has their prices
No one is no one
and nobody in a crisis
There’s no swimming past the drop-off
or feeling sorry for yourself
Ya don’t go swimming past the drop-off
or else

Yer a pistol, yer a gun
and suddenly I have no prices
I’m like a friend of Dylan’s
our shovels meeting in some crisis
But there’s no swimming past the drop-off
Yea we don’t replace ourselves
Ya don’t go swimming past the drop-off
or else

The fates are amok and spun, measured and cut and the past is meant to please us
Yer a comet from earth in a Kiss Alive shirt saying, ‘holy fuck, it’s jesus!?’
The surface is green and the dark interweaves in a lonely iridescence
It’s terribly deep and the cold is complete and it only lacks a presence
and nothing else.

When the summer is done
and nobody sympathizes
Yer no friend of Dylan’s
Yea, you won’t see another crisis
There’s no swimming past the drop-off
or feeling sorry for ourselves
Ya don’t go swimming past the drop-off
or else

Personal stakes will get raised and get raised til your story gets compelling
If you lacked the sense or were willfully dense is forever in the telling
The surface is green and the dark interweaves in a lonely iridescence
It’s terribly deep and the cold is complete and it only lacks your presence
and nothing else
nothing else
nothing else
and no one else
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Family Band

I can’t smell a rat when it’s all rat
I can’t find one in an elevator
My mind doesn’t work so bad
But I am a poor exterminator
that’s right

I can’t destroy entirely
Or annihilate a little later
I can’t see the entire city
But I’m not a bad exterminator
I’m just a shade shy of true wickedness
I’m a shade shy of truly loving it, yea
There are other things I’d rather be doing
Even nothing
Even nothing
Even nothing with you

One day I’ll make some honest rock n roll
Full of handclaps and gang vocals
I’m gonna get all the children involved
We’re gonna get lost on all you locals
We’ll be a shade shy of true wickedness
We’ll be a shade shy of truly loving this, yea
There are other things we’ll rather be doing, sure
Even nothing
Even nothing
Even nothing with you

We’ll load out through the snow
Through small groups of people smoking
Hey! Get that kick drum loaded!
Into the backseat folded down!
We’ll go virtually unnoticed
What’s gripping the city ain’t hitting the town

We’ll be a shade shy of true wickedness
We’ll be a shade shy of truly loving it, yea
There are other things that we’ll surely miss
We’ll load out through the snow
Through small groups of people smoking
Hey! get that kick drum loaded!
Into the backseat folded down!
We’ll go perfectly unnoticed
What’s gripping the city ain’t hitting the town
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- worldpeace - 10-12-2006

Sounds right to me.

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- rich3677 - 10-12-2006

tigerthelion Wrote:

emperor penguin Wrote:Edit, here is my best effort at "World Container"

There’s a world container with your name on it
It aint a billion ways to go berzerk
When the country quits on you it must be dinner
And the Himmler on this one is there’s no desert
He’s the one who couldn’t imagine
All the people living life in peace
Yooouuu, good news, you get to vanish
Go to Cleveland beyond Indy smash
The good news is now you’re smaller
The bad news is you can be smaller than that
Go suck some souls, be a reader get used
Laugh at a funeral or two
Laugh and laugh till all the chameleons turn black
Laugh and laugh till your told please don’t come back
Then think incredulous, say I just can’t believe
How’d it get this late so early
Say aint life a grand and I meant all your all
And drop into your haunted bunk
Go to your touchless times
Out where the waters join
Go past the no tractions past this point sign
What you’ll find there are all flaws in progress
Where all songs are one song and that song is don’t forget
Yea all songs are one song and that song is don’t forget
Yea I faked incredulous and I just can’t believe
How’d it get this late so early
Said aint life a grand and I meant all of your all
I dropped into my haunted bunk
Been to the touchless times
Out where the waters join
been past the no tractions past this point sign
what we have here are all flaws in progress
Where all songs are one song and that song is don’t forget
Where all songs are one song and that song is don’t forget
Where all songs are one song and that song is dont forget

Great job. A few minor adjustments I think might be::

1) and a billion ways to go berserk

2) i'm in awe of y'all

I agree the both of the changes above and i have one to add

3) go sex as in go determine the sex of the souls.

Also as with all Gord's lyrics i have to run to the dictionary, this time it was Himmler - as in Heinrich Himmler - Nazi Commander and organizer of the Holocaust

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- rich3677 - 10-12-2006

rich3677 Wrote:

tigerthelion Wrote:

emperor penguin Wrote:Edit, here is my best effort at "World Container"

There’s a world container with your name on it
It aint a billion ways to go berzerk
When the country quits on you it must be dinner
And the Himmler on this one is there’s no desert
He’s the one who couldn’t imagine
All the people living life in peace
Yooouuu, good news, you get to vanish
Go to Cleveland beyond Indy smash
The good news is now you’re smaller
The bad news is you can be smaller than that
Go suck some souls, be a reader get used
Laugh at a funeral or two
Laugh and laugh till all the chameleons turn black
Laugh and laugh till your told please don’t come back
Then think incredulous, say I just can’t believe
How’d it get this late so early
Say aint life a grand and I meant all your all
And drop into your haunted bunk
Go to your touchless times
Out where the waters join
Go past the no tractions past this point sign
What you’ll find there are all flaws in progress
Where all songs are one song and that song is don’t forget
Yea all songs are one song and that song is don’t forget
Yea I faked incredulous and I just can’t believe
How’d it get this late so early
Said aint life a grand and I meant all of your all
I dropped into my haunted bunk
Been to the touchless times
Out where the waters join
been past the no tractions past this point sign
what we have here are all flaws in progress
Where all songs are one song and that song is don’t forget
Where all songs are one song and that song is don’t forget
Where all songs are one song and that song is dont forget

Great job. A few minor adjustments I think might be::

1) and a billion ways to go berserk

2) i'm in awe of y'all

I agree the both of the changes above and i have two to add

3) go sex as in go determine the sex of the souls.

4) be an

Also as with all Gord's lyrics i have to run to the dictionary, this time it was Himmler - as in Heinrich Himmler - Nazi Commander and organizer of the Holocaust

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- Roy-at-tth - 10-12-2006

It should have gone something like --

"There's a world container with your name on it
So go out and buy a copy of the album"

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- Summiteer - 10-13-2006

Bump

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- worldpeace - 10-13-2006

Does anyone wanna try and interpret them?

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- sean.bonner - 10-13-2006

worldpeace Wrote:Does anyone wanna try and interpret them?

To each his or her own.

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Similar Lyrics! - colin - 10-14-2006

Did anyone else notice that the first few lines of "The kids don't get it" and "Pretend" are almost identical?

Kids:
"You said, ‘If I ask you a question,
are you gonna lie to me?’
I said, ‘honey, is that your question?
cuz honey, that one’s easy’ "

Pretend
"If I ask you a question
are you going to lie to me?
Is that your question?
Because that one is easy "

Interesting...

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