This is a Fire Door Never Leave Open (Live)-The Weakerthans

[ti:This Is A Fire Door Never Leave Open (Live)] [ar:The Weakerthans] [al:Live At The Burton Cummings Theatre] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]This is a Fire Door Never Leave Open (Live) - The Weakerthans [00:26.63]Headlights race towards [00:28.16] [00:28.98]The corner of the dining room [00:32.17] [00:33.99]And half illuminate a face [00:37.50]Before they disappear [00:40.18] [00:41.58]You breathe in forty years [00:44.01]Of failing to describe a feeling [00:47.33] [00:49.04]I breathe out smoke against the window [00:52.47]Trace the letters in your name [00:55.80] [00:57.60]Our letters sound the same [00:59.33] [01:00.42]Full of all our changing [01:02.54] [01:05.05]That isn't change at all [01:06.93] [01:08.34]All straight lines circle sometime [01:10.95] [01:26.62]You said somewhere there's a box [01:29.94]Full of replacement parts to [01:32.83] [01:34.05]All the tenderness we've broken or let rust away [01:39.63] [01:41.33]Somewhere sympathy is more [01:44.87]Than just a way of leaving [01:47.71] [01:48.89]Somewhere someone says I'm sorry [01:52.72]Someone's making plans to stay [01:55.76] [01:57.27]So tell me it's okay [01:58.79] [02:00.31]Tell me anything or [02:04.22]Show me there's a pull [02:07.01] [02:08.00]Unassailable [02:09.69] [02:10.29]That will lead you there from the dark alone [02:13.17] [02:13.75]To benevolence that you've never known [02:17.10] [02:17.68]Or you knew when you were four and can't remember [02:22.29] [02:24.92]Where a small knife tears out those sloppy seams [02:28.93]And the silence knows what your silence means [02:32.11] [02:32.64]And your metaphors as mixed as you can make them [02:37.26] [02:38.56]Are linked like days together [02:41.49] [03:27.24]I still hear trains at night when the wind is right [03:32.07] [03:34.78]I remember everything lick and thread this string [03:39.38] [03:40.14]That will never mend you or tailor more [03:42.97] [03:43.61]Than a memory of a kitchen floor [03:46.70] [03:47.37]Or the fire-door that we kept propping open [03:51.65] [03:54.96]And I love this place the enormous sky [03:58.05] [03:58.75]And the faces hands that I'm haunted by [04:02.18]So why can't I forgive these buildings [04:07.10] [04:08.19]These frameworks labeled home [04:09.94] [04:26.34]Headlights race towards the corner of the dining room [04:32.12] [04:34.03]And half illuminate a face before they disappear