Sounds Familiar-The Weakerthans

[ti:Sounds Familiar] [ar:The Weakerthans] [al:Fallow] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Sounds Familiar - The Weakerthans [00:00.71]We emerged from youth all wide eyed like the rest [00:03.83] [00:05.36]Shedding skin faster than skin can grow [00:10.30]And armed with hammers feathers blunt knives [00:12.69]Words to meet and to define and to but you [00:16.93]Must know [00:17.93] [00:20.92]The same games that we played in dirt in dusty [00:24.31]School yards [00:25.74]Found a higher pitch and broader scale [00:29.46] [00:31.54]Than we feared possible someone must be picked last [00:36.47]And one must bruise and one must fail [00:39.93] [00:42.86]And still twitching bird was so deceived by a [00:47.39]Window [00:48.25]So we eulogized fondly we dug deep and threw [00:53.54] [00:54.63]It's elegant plumage and frantic black eyes in a hole [01:00.46] [01:01.09]Then rushed out to kill something new [01:05.03] [01:05.72]So we could bury that too [01:08.09] [01:08.60]The first chapters of life almost made us give up [01:13.01]Altogether [01:14.45] [01:17.22]Pushed towards tired forms of self immolation [01:21.19]That seemed so original I must we must never stop [01:27.33] [01:28.58]Watching the sky with our hands in our pockets [01:33.00]Stop peering in windows we know doors are shut [01:38.45] [01:39.91]Stop yelling small stories and bad jokes and sorrows [01:45.63] [01:46.22]My voice will scratch to yell many more but [01:51.86] [01:53.48]Before I spill the things I mean to hide away [01:57.88] [02:00.11]Or gouge my eyes with platitudes of sentiment [02:04.69] [02:07.19]I'll drown the urge for permanence and certainty [02:11.56] [02:14.10]Crouch down and scrawl my name with yours in wet [02:18.61] [02:21.08]Cement