Queer-Rheostatics

[ti:Queer] [ar:Rheostatics] [al:Whale Music] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.17]Queer - Rheostatics [00:12.65]You woke the wrecking yard hounds [00:16.02]When you slammed the passenger side [00:20.49]Father watched you from the yard [00:23.54]With his knuckles wrapped in ice [00:27.28]Now the screen door is still broken [00:30.78]Since you kicked your Kodiaks through it [00:34.35]But we left the Christmas tree standing [00:38.34]In case you turned around [00:44.57]Now I've heard you've got a good job [00:47.65]Pitching hay down in Salmon Arm [00:52.04]Maybe I'll hike there from the coast [00:55.06]When the weather starts to warm [00:59.35]K D called on the weekend; [01:02.32]She was crying on the telephone [01:05.93] [01:06.44]Father said as far as he's concerned [01:09.53]You've been stricken from our home [01:15.60]He's gone out of his head [01:20.03](She's gone out of her head ) [01:23.24]He's gone out of his head [01:27.19](She's gone out of his head ) [01:30.60]He's gone out of his head [01:35.41]Sometimes choices aren't so clear [01:55.20]Father raged like a soldier [01:57.97]He put his fist through the kitchen door [02:02.59]When I said it would have been better if [02:05.35]You had split on your own accord [02:09.64]I don't care about the damage [02:13.01]But I wish you were there to see it [02:16.32]When I scored a hat-trick on the team [02:20.58]That called you a f**king queer [02:25.41]Gonna [02:26.20]He's gone out of his head [02:30.19](She's gone out of her head ) [02:33.37]He's gone out of his head [02:37.46](She's gone out of his head ) [02:40.05] [02:40.80]He's gone out of his head [02:45.63]Sometimes choices aren't so clear [04:49.65](I'm in the country now [04:50.56] [04:51.31]Among the rattlesnakes and the sage-brush [04:54.55]The concrete and asphalt and glass are gone [04:57.79]And in its place is well water [04:59.74]And black spruce and gravel roads [05:01.77]Which snake and curl and wind through the valley [05:04.91]I wish you were here to watch the sun sneak [05:06.97]Above the mountains [05:07.75]And play with the pure light across the farmland; [05:10.61]It'll f**k your mind up [05:12.43]But I'm glad I'm here and not there [05:14.61]If I had stayed I would've killed him [05:16.58]I would have come home [05:17.40]And found him asleep on the couch [05:19.01]And walked up to him [05:19.94]And pressed the gun against his head [05:21.44]And watched it explode in a glorious watercolor fountain [05:25.26]All thick and red and gory [05:27.40]I would have used it to paint the picture I'm seeing now )