Reconstruction Site (TV Version)-The Weakerthans

[ti:Reconstruction Site] [ar:The Weakerthans] [al:Live At The Burton Cummings Theatre] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Reconstruction Site (TV Version) - The Weakerthans [00:21.15]Well I'm lost I'm a frayed [00:23.68]Rope tying down a leaky boat [00:26.19]To the roof of a car on a road in the dark [00:28.72]And it's snowing [00:29.80] [00:31.47]If I'm more then it means less [00:34.77]Last call for happiness [00:36.11]I'm your dress near the back of your knees [00:38.35]And your slip is showing [00:40.60] [00:41.93]I'm a float in a summer parade [00:45.99]Up the street in the town [00:48.07]That you were born in [00:50.63] [00:52.57]With a girl at the top wearing tulle [00:55.92] [00:56.55]And a Miss Somewhere sash [00:58.91] [00:59.57]Waving like the queen [01:01.16] [01:04.04]Well beauty's just another word [01:06.83]I'm never certain how to spell [01:09.23]Go tell the nurse to turn the TV back on [01:14.55]And throw away my misery [01:17.32]It never meant that much to me [01:19.99]It never sent a get-well card [01:22.88] [01:35.13]And I broke like a bad joke [01:38.38]Somebody's uncle told [01:40.24]At a wedding reception in 1972 [01:43.74] [01:45.48]Where a little boy under a table [01:47.65]With cake in his hair [01:49.48] [01:50.88]Stared at the grown-up feet [01:52.80]As they danced and swayed [01:54.82] [01:56.20]And his father laughed [01:57.58]And talked on the long ride home [02:00.10] [02:02.03]And his mother laughed [02:03.47]And talked on the long ride home [02:06.15] [02:07.82]And he thought about [02:08.90]How everyone dies someday [02:12.24] [02:13.94]And when tomorrow gets here [02:16.07]Where will yesterday be [02:17.94] [02:20.09]And fell asleep in his brand new winter coat [02:23.63] [02:26.37]Buy me a shiny new machine [02:28.98]That runs on lies and gasoline [02:31.77]And all those batteries we stole [02:33.83]From smoke alarms [02:36.82] [02:37.38]And disassembles my despair [02:39.73]It never took me anywhere [02:42.40]It never once bought me a drink