Canada Dry lyrics - Barenaked Ladies
We were shining like Aurora Borealis
Like Sid sipping from the Stanley chalice
Balling in a bus across the USA
Dumb enough to think that it would stay that way
Lounging in the living room in long johns
More distant than Victoria to St. John's
Trying to use a record to repair my heart
I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to start again
My friend
You're leaving me high and Canada dry
I'm out of your head and I'm losing my mind
Listening to Neil is making me cry
You're leaving me high and Canada dry
Sinking like a Saskatoon sunset
Thinking that we had it from the outset
Tommy said that life was a highway, dear
But I became the road kill when you oversteered
Oh why, oh why?
You're leaving me high and Canada dry
I'm out of your head and I'm losing my mind
Now listening to Joni's making me cry
You're leaving me high and Canada dry
High
You fled the snow, while I stayed here
I'll let you know, I'll make it clear
How happy I appear
High and Canada Dry
I'm out of your head and I'm losing my mind
Listening to Gordie is making me cry
You're leaving me high
You're leaving me high
You're leaving me high
And Canada dry
High and Canada dry
Bringing It Home lyrics - Barenaked Ladies
It's not a Cinderella story
It's not an overnight success
Where everybody expects unlikely outcomes
And I'm just somewhere in the mess
It's not an underdog sensation
Or a movie of the week
Anybody involved from the beginning
Knows it's not just a lucky streak
I'm bringin it home
Forever After
It's in our bones. Hey!
Stay at the house
'Cause we're bringing it home. Oh!
We raised the rafters
We made Rome. Hey!
We bagged it up and we're bringin it home
It's not a simple right of passage
Where you just follow every step
Somebody took every single roadmap
And there just wasn't any left
So we found our own direction
Made our way to everyone
And now we look back on every misstep
And wonder how we got it done
I'm bringin it home
Forever After
It's in our bones. Hey!
Stay at the house 'cause we're bringing it home. Oh!
We raised the rafters
We made Rome. Hey!
We bagged it up and we're bringin it home
I'm the quickest of the fast draws
Stick it making slack jaws
Last of the last straws
Slippin til the ice thaws
Swimming when it's ice cold
Brimmin' with the big bowl
Flavor never waiver
Put the life in the Lifesaver
Never ever let down
Good to get down
Freaky like antiquey-d?
I'm gonna make you my clown
All's well that ends well
Glad like in Gladwell
Days after Days Inn
I put my 10k's in (Yep!)
Forever After
It's in our bones. Hey!
Stay at the house
'Cause we're bringin it home. Oh!
We raised the rafters
We made Rome. Hey!
We bagged it up and we're bringin it home. Oh!
Forever After
It's in our bones. Hey!
Stay at the house
'Cause we're bringin it home. Oh!
We raised the rafters
We made Rome. Hey!
We bagged it up and we're bringin it home
We bagged it up and we're bringin it home
Invisible Fence lyrics - Barenaked Ladies
Barenaked Ladies
I heard you built an invisible fence
What about us, what about your friends
Its difficult not to take offence
When you're running intonan invisible fence
An invisible (invisible fence)
An invisible fence (an invisible fence)
An invisible (invisible fence)
Invisible, invisible
Some people just wanna build more walls
Thinking there's no hope, no peace at all
But building them comes at a great expense
Whether it is in your mind or wet cement
An invisible (invisible fence)
An invisible fence (an invisible fence)
An invisible (invisible fence)
Invisible, invisible
Invisible (invisible fence)
An invisible fence (an invisible fence)
Invisible (invisible fence)
I'll listen to that bird
I'll listen to that song bird
I'll listen to that bird
That sings for the peace of world
That sings for the peace of world
Yeah sure that we may have variance
Like colour of skin or the way we dance
And at end of the day we're not different
And we gotta break down the invisible fence
An invisible (invisible fence)
An invisible fence (an invisible fence)
An invisible (invisible fence)
Invisible, invisible
Lookin' Up lyrics - Barenaked Ladies
Some people wanna take a high dive into a drink
Some people wanna watch the world swirl into the sink
Why would you argue is the glass half full? It's a mess
I drank the first half; you can drink the rest
Hey!
One foot on the pedal
One hand on the wheel
Don't know where I'm headed
But it starts right here
Everywhere I go is home
Every town and every road
Every song I've ever known
Carried in my bones
I feel like a lightening strike
Every time I rock the mic
You can join me if you'd like
Or I'll go on my own
I'm lookin' up
I'm lookin' up
All the way up
I'm lookin' up
All the way
Look at me now. I think you'd find it hard to believe
Back in my yearbook voted least likely to succeed
You go and worry 'bout the things you can't control
I'ma see the doughnut; you can see the hole
Everywhere I go is home
Every town and every road
Every song I've ever known
Carried in my bones
I feel like a lightening strike
Every time I rock the mic
You can join me if you'd like
Or I'll go on my own
I'm lookin' up
I'm lookin' up
All the way up
I'm lookin' up
All the way up
Everywhere I go is home
Every town and every road
Every song I've ever known
Carried in my bones
I feel like a lightening strike
Every time I rock the mic
You can join me if you'd like
Or I'll go on my own
I'm lookin' up
I'm lookin' up
All the way up
I'm lookin' up
All the way up
Sunshine lyrics - Barenaked Ladies
Most of us, have learned to trust
What we see with our own eyes
But with blinders on you hardly realize
That out of view, it's still true
Even when no one's around
We can stumble and fall down
Sunshine burns your skin
Sometimes the things we love so much just eat us up from the outside in
Oceans blue will drown
I could find a way to live with your ghost but I won't be happy till I leave this town.
It's just as well, It's hard to tell
Cause my hindsight's crystal clear
But the view from then's not like the view from here
If you are passed through a looking glass
The important parts appear
But the details start to smear
Sunshine burns your skin
Sometimes the things we love so much just eat us up from the outside in
Oceans blue will drown
I could find a way to live with your ghost but I won't be happy till I leave this town.
When I leave this town, I move the point of view I found
Sun seems to go down, but it just burns while we all spin around
I ran fast, but I came last
'Cause although I set the pace
It was rigged from the start that I'd lose this race
Gone and done
Before it had begun
Seems the cup's half full till its overflowed
Then you run and run till your heart explodes
Sunshine burns your skin
Sometimes the things we love so much just eat us up from the outside in
Oceans blue will drown
I could find a way to live with your ghost but I won't be happy till I leave this town.
(Sunshine)
I won't be happy till I leave this town (Sunshine)
Won't be happy till I leave this town
Dusty Rooms lyrics - Barenaked Ladies
I spend too much time
In these dirty, dusty rooms
Places with the flickering signs
And the dirty, dusty rooms
Is it unfair
To want fresh air?
Is it such a crime?
The window is locked
The bed is wrapped
I feel like I'm doing time
Dial 9 for an outside line
In a dirty, dusty room
I found an old wedge of lime
In a dirty, dusty room
On TV
Hey it's Mr. T
Man, his jewelry shines
He's so cool
And he pities the fools
Who waste their precious time
Wasting precious time
In a dirty, dusty room
There's a loud and leaking fan
In a dirty, dusty room
And all of the rock and roll bands
In their dirty, dusty rooms
Hey there Jim
Where have you been?
How do you make the time fly?
Down at the gym
Stretching my limbs
Like a tree by the riverside
Like a tree by the riverside
Not a dirty, dusty room
Dial 8 for a really weird time
In a dirty, dusty room
I gave in
I went for a spin
And know what did I find?
A little tin
Full of tarantula skin
And a house full of butterflies
A house full of butterflies
Not a dirty, dusty room
Allons-y mes amis
We're making it out alive
Allons-y mes amis
It's checkout time
It's time to say goodbye
To our dirty, dusty rooms
We all spend too much time
In these dirty, dusty rooms
I spend too much time
In these dirty, dusty rooms
We Took The Night lyrics - Barenaked Ladies
We took the night
We chased the moon
We watched the skylight
I chased you
Hanging on for a chance
Hanging out, hanging in
In a shadow, in a glance
My memory, spins
We took the night
I keep it still
In the blue light
Warm from the chill
And we were lost in time
It never mattered, it never will
Broken, scattered
We took the night
We chased the moon
We watched the skylight
I chased you
Run blind, run fast
Too far and you've gone
I watched as you passed
And you keep running on
We took the night
I keep it still
In the blue light
Warm from the chill
Warm from the chill
We chased the moon
I chased you
Navigate lyrics - Barenaked Ladies
Can't get lost 'cause I can navigate by stars
I can build you a lean-to, keep you warm and dry till dawn
What's the cost, of trying to find out who we are
Maybe we didn't mean to but still we got it going on
Up north, well off the highway away from the noise and lights
Wild sounds, as hard as they try, they can't contain themselves for the night
Hold still, try to pretend that there's no reason we'd ever go back
It's home and I will defend it
Can't get lost 'cause I can navigate by stars
I can build you a lean-to, keep you warm and dry till dawn
What's the cost, trying to find out who we are
Maybe we didn't mean to but still we got it going on
Drift on, don't try to attach this, don't dare try to get it to stop
Deep blue is fading to blackness, sink, and the temperature drops
No ride on the horizon, feels like you're floating in space
No time, no hesitation
I can't get lost 'cause I can navigate by stars
I can build you a lean-to, keep you warm and dry till dawn
What's the cost, trying to find out who we are
Maybe we didn't mean to but still we got it going on, and on, and on
Flying Dreams lyrics - Barenaked Ladies
If you could walk, if you could talk
Where would you go, what would you say to me?
I love the sound of you movin' around
Laughin' and dreamin' next to me
But I'll never know what you see
I hope it's a flying dream
Over fields, houses and hills
Over hospitals, shopping malls and ravines
Over walls, transcending it all
Love finds itself right where it longs to be
And I'll never know what you see
I hope it's a flying dream
You center me, you help me to see
What is important and what I should just let be
To blow away on garbage day
With candy rappers and cigarette packages
Through the dark days, the hard careens
Longing for flying dreams
There's no more leaves, the raindrops freeze
And glisten like teardrops in the the trees
Sink or swim, still sinking in
I've been swimming deep in the blues these days
Ever since fate intervened
And took away my flying dreams
Flying dreams
Flying dreams
Nobody Better lyrics - Barenaked Ladies
Tryin' to make amends
Not just making friends
It means politely ends
And we make a mess
I try to comprehend
Not broken but well bent
I swear I did my best
Don't believe I know
Don't believe I've fallen in line
Tell me does it show
Wherever I go you'll be on my mind
There's nobody better, forever and ever
I'll weather this with you
Hiding all the wrong, trying to carry on
Make believe the song can make it work
Wanting to belong, I knew it all along
See it wasn't worth it
Don't believe I know
Don't believe I've fallen in line
Tell me does it show
Wherever I go you'll be on my mind
There's nobody better, forever and ever
I'll weather this with you
If I close my eyes, I see it every time
If I close my eyes, I see it every time
I don't believe I know
Don't believe I've fallen in line
Sp tell me does it show
Wherever I go you'll be on my mind
There's nobody better, forever and ever
I'll weather this with you
There's nobody better
Bag Of Bones lyrics - Barenaked Ladies
Big dogs, barking dogs
Biting dogs, big dogs
Barking dogs, biting dogs
Now I know and now I can see
It was a joke, it was our mean
Up in smoke and lost in a fog
And everything has gone to the dust
Big dogs, barking dogs, biting dogs
Big dogs, barking dogs, biting dogs
Hey Mrs Jones, I saw you last week
Walking your dog way down the street
You said you feel, lost I know what it's like
When the blind lead the blind into the night
Memories of scenery are floating in my head
All I want is everything to be alright again and then
I'll bring back my bag of bones
Rain falling down, I walk to the park
I still hear the dogs but it's getting dark
Up in smoke and lost in a fog
And everything has gone to the dust
Big dogs
Big dogs
Big dogs
Big dogs
Memories of scenery are floating in my head
All I want is everything to be alright again and then
I'll bring back my bag of bones
Bag of bones (bring back)
Bag of bones (bring back)
My bag of bones (bring back)
In a back road (bring back)
Bring it back (bring back)
Bring it back
You + Me Vs The World lyrics - Barenaked Ladies
If I was stuck inside a burning building
I'd wanna be there with you
The final seconds of a thrilling ending
Know we'd Macguyver it through
Cause when I'm with you
I've got no need to be afraid
Despite what they do
You know we always get away
Throw us in any compromised position
Stand back and watch what we do
It's you and me against The World
There's no white flags when you're my girl
It's you and me against The World
And it won't stand a chance
No matter what the circumstance
If I was blown out of the airlock with you
Into the vacuum of space
A gravity assisted slingshot
We'd do an interstellar embrace
So, bring on the fire swamp
We're never giving up
I'll be your Wesley, you'll be my Buttercup
It's you and me against The World
There's no white flags when you're my girl
It's you and me against The World
And it won't stand a chance
No matter what the circumstance
The World looks in our eyes
Can't help but realize
This is not a it's gonna win
It's throwing in the towel and giving in
It's you and me against The World
There's no white flags when you're my girl
It's you and me against The World
There's no white flags when you're my girl
Just you and me against The World
You and me against The World
And it won't stand a chance
No matter what the circumstance
20/20 Hindsight lyrics - Barenaked Ladies
If you don't mind, it won't take long
I'm gonna stand up here and sing my song
I wanna dedicate it to my friends
From the very beginning to the end
I'm not a hostage to regret
But so many times I can't forget
If I could get back to those days
I know what to do, I know what to say
I barely knew my up from down
Or my left from right
Everything is clearer now
In hindsight
Twenty-twenty hindsight
Me and Sylvie and Silent Sam
We were sittin' so long, it never ends
I wish we could get together again
And we could laugh and play like we did back then
Sometimes I wander to that road
That I turned off of so long ago
I sit and wonder where it goes
And what different story might've been told
If I never said "I love you"
Then I'm saying it tonight
Everything is clearer now
In hindsight
Twenty-twenty hindsight
Twenty-twenty hindsight
Twenty-twenty hindsight
(Here's to the good friends in my life)
Twenty-twenty hindsight
Twenty-twenty
The Township Of King lyrics - Barenaked Ladies
She's lived alone in a little home
By the Township of King
In the morning she'd feed the birds
And listen to them sing
From the words they flock to her
Knowing she would do no harm
Flying over the patchwork quilt
Of the fields and the farms
Of the fields and farms, oh yeah
Then one day a yellow bird
Landed on her hand
Devoted, it sang to her
So that she could understand
It warned of the trucks coming up the road
Full of concrete and steel
Come to cut down all the trees
And pave over the field
Oh oh oh
Come come, the sky is grey
Come come, we'll find a way
They were building an amusement park
Where the forest once did stand
With gypsum built a mountain
And they'll call it Wonderland
I will feed you and care for you
Until you are strong and tall
And I will climb upon your back
And we'll fly away in the fall
We'll fly away, fly away
Come come, the sky is grey
Come come, we'll find a way
Then one day they flew away
And it was the strangest thing
To watch them all fly as she waved goodbye
To the Township of King
To the Township of King, oh yeah
Silverball (2015)
- Get Back Up
- Here Before
- Matter Of Time
- Duct Tape Heart
- Say What You Want
- Passcode
- Hold My Hand
- Narrow Streets
- Toe To Toe
- Piece Of Cake
- Globetrot
- Silverball
- Tired Of Fighting With You
- Counting Down (Best Buy Exclusive Bonus Track)
- Fall Back On (Best Buy Exclusive Bonus Track)
Get Back Up lyrics - Barenaked Ladies
I'm a little bit worse for wear
Got a little bit more grey hair
I'm not gonna be the next big thing
But I'm getting fitted for a new brass ring
I've been dunked, I've been kicked around
Now I'm ready for the big rebound
I know you can't win them all
But I'm swingin' like Pitt gettin' hits in Moneyball
Get back, get back up
You gotta get back, get back up
You got a whole stadium on their feet
It's not about a victory or a defeat
See you gotta get back, get back up
You gotta get back, get back up
Not everything is sink or swim
You can't fly if the air's too thin
The best part of the ride is the free fall
Better keep your arms and legs in the vehicle
Standing eight and I'm on the ropes
Knees givin' but I won't lose hope
Not the second coming of Muhammad Ali
But can I get a "WOOT" for the boxing imagery?
Get back, get back up
You gotta get back, get back up
You got a whole stadium on their feet
It's not about a victory or a defeat
See you gotta get back, get back up
You gotta get back, get back up
Gotta get back, gotta get back
Gotta get back, gotta get back
Gotta get back, gotta get back
Gotta get back, gotta get back
Gotta get back, gotta get back
Gotta get back, gotta get back
Get back, get back up
You gotta get back, get back up
You got a whole stadium on their feet
It's not about a victory or a defeat
See you gotta get back, get back up
You gotta get back, get back up
Everybody's up on their feet
It's not about a victory or a defeat
See you gotta get back, get back up
You gotta get back, get back up
Gotta get back, gotta get back
Gotta get back, gotta get back
Gotta get back, gotta get back
Gotta get back, gotta get back
Gotta get back, gotta get back
Gotta get back, gotta get back
Here Before lyrics - Barenaked Ladies
Try putting on a brave face,
While everything is giving way,
Night can undercut riverbank knowing that you might go swimming,
But it doesn't matter anyway.
Try to look at my reflection,
You see it's getting bigger fast,
By the time it looks lifesize I'll be soaking wet wondering how
I ended up on my ass.
And I've been here before,
I don't need to go back anymore,
I've been here before
And I don't need to go back anymore.
I'm thought of moving on the wrong side
But maybe it's the wrong bed
You can get tangled up and be arrested trying landing on your feet
And still wind up landing on your head.
So when you try to make it look good,
Like it was what you wanted all along.
Never thought you would wind up finding out nothing was quite
As you took for granted all along.
I've been here before,
And I don't mean to go back anymore,
I've been here before,
And I don't need to go back anymore.
Why would I fall back into this shit-storm?
I mean, what went wrong?
Why would I get it all over me?
Maybe I'll squeeze back into this suit I paid way too much for.
'Cos you can feel bad these days for free!
(Middle Eight)
I've been here before,
And I don't mean to go back anymore,
I've been here before,
And I don't need to go back anymore.
I've been here before.
I've been here before.
I've been here before.
Don't need to go back anymore.
I've been here before,
I've been here before,
And I don't need to go back anymore,
'Cos I've been here before.
Matter Of Time lyrics - Barenaked Ladies
Time heals when both wheels
Slide off the shoulder
The car flips, your heart skips
And I'm sad and sober
I forfeit
To you for the moment
Swore this
Wasn't gonna go bent
More fits
Guess it was a matter of time
At war with anything and anyone
That you're with
I really got to hand it to you
For this
I guess it was a matter of time
I guess it was a matter of time
Time flies
And goodbyes
Pile up behind you
You release
You make peace
They come back to find you
I forfeit
To you for the moment
Swore this
Wasn't gonna go bent
More fits
Guess it was a matter of time
At war with anything and anyone
That you're with
I really got to hand it to you
For this
I guess it was a matter of time
I guess it was a matter of time
Was it just a matter of time? (time, time, time)
Maybe it was all in your mind (time, time, time)
Tell me was that over the line? (time)
'Cause everybody's doin' just fine (time, time)
I forfeit
To you for the moment
Swore this
Wasn't gonna go bent
More fits
Guess it was a matter of time
We're at war with anything and anyone
That you're with
I really got to hand it to you
For this
I guess it was a matter of time
I guess it was a matter of time
I guess it was a matter of time
I guess it was a matter of time
(More fits)
(Swore this)
(Forfeit, time)
I guess it was a matter of time
(Forfeit)
(You're this)
(For this time, time)
I guess it was a matter of time
Duct Tape Heart lyrics - Barenaked Ladies
It was in pieces 'til this adhesive
Stuck it together, now it beats again
It's working alright, and it looks tight
A little miracle I recommend
I could use another roll, another roll
I could use another roll right now
Stop messing with my Duct Tape Heart
Your best won't make it fall apart
Because I'll always have enough, enough
For when I gotta tape it up, it up
Stop messing with my Duct Tape Heart
‘Cause no one's ever gonna tear that thing apart
A million uses, you know the truth is
There isn't any heart that it can't fix
When you wear through one, just make a new one
And make a wallet out of extra bits
I could use another roll, another roll
I could use another roll right now
Stop messing with my Duct Tape Heart
Your best won't make it fall apart
Because I'll always have enough, enough
For when I gotta tape it up, it up
Stop messing with my Duct Tape Heart
‘Cause no one's ever gonna tear that thing apart
Woo-ooh hoo, woo-ooh hoo!
Woo-ooh hoo, woo-ooh hoo!
Woo-ooh hoo, woo-ooh hoo!
Woo-ooh hoo, woo-ooh!
Polyethylene coated pressure-sensitive tape
It's tried, it's true, nothing it can't do
Fixed the fender on the rover that was left on the moon
It's good enough for you
Stop messing with my Duct Tape Heart
Your best won't make it fall apart
Because I'll always have enough, enough
For when I gotta tape it up, it up
Stop messing with my Duct Tape Heart
Your best won't make it fall apart
Because I'll always have enough, enough
For when I gotta tape it up, it up
Stop messing with my Duct Tape Heart
You know you're never gonna tear that thing apart
Woo-ooh hoo, woo-ooh hoo!
Woo-ooh hoo, woo-ooh hoo!
Woo-ooh hoo, woo-ooh hoo!
Woo-ooh!
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