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Emily Haines On My Car Stereo
If you just had one wish, tell me the truth now
Would ya be a little selfish, it's alright, no one's around now
If that wish were mine, world peace would have to wait you know
After all I'm just a man, and you're impossibly beautiful
Oh, when I'm driving I think it's funny all the while
Years of building a backbone blown apart by your smile, but
What would you say if I told you when we're alone
It feels like Emily Haines on my car stereo
Are we like children, after our innocence has died
Are we like lovers, with one who's mind is a little more than fried
If you were famous, would you remember my face
To me you're already famous, so gaze a little while more just in case
Oh, when I'm driving I think it's funny all the while
Years of building a backbone blown apart by your smile
What would you say if I told you when we're alone
It feels like Emily Haines on my car stereo
Guess I never mentioned, how you paint pictures in my mind
When I clown and tease ya, your look of shock gets me perfectly high
You won't see it coming, but you really won't be surprised
One of these times, gonna kiss you deeply 'neath a new moon sky, sky, sky
Oh, when I'm driving I think it's funny all the while
Years of building a backbone blown apart by your smile
What would you say if I told you when we're alone
It feels like Emily Haines on my car stereo
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I Pretend They're All You
(Douglas/Hart)
The one who put her footprint on my windshield
With her sister in the back seat
The one who got lost her stash on the dance floor
Sniffing through the glittered feet
The one I picked up hitching from Kingston
Never told the wife about
The one who filled my head with her dogma
Put me into old self-doubt
They sought it, they got it
They climbed it, they owned it
They fell what's coming down but
They don't, they don't, they don't
The one who thought that i was my brother
The one who likes to think she's my mother
I pretend they're all you
I pretend they're all you
The one whose crazy signs were a red light
Friends told me to avoid
The one who followed me for six weeks
Making me a little paranoid
The one who took me home to her trailer
Show a trick or two from way down south
The one who pulled me back to the suburbs
Just to play closer to that mouth
They sought it, they got it
They climbed it, they owned it
They fell what's coming down but
They don't, they don't, they don't
The one who pulled me into her band
The one who wants a ring on her hand
I pretend they're all you
I pretend they're all you
I pretend they're all you
I pretend they're all you
(break)
The one who gave me half of her band
The one who wants a ring on her hand
I pretend they're all you
I pretend they're all you
I pretend they're all you
I pretend they're all you
I pretend they're all you
I pretend they're all you
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Blow By Blow (2.0)
04:42
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Blow by Blow
music: Cranham, Daley, Douglas, Hart, O'keefe
lyrics: Douglas
I'm gone, leaving without you baby
I'm gone, leaving without you baby
Remember living off your nectar, too much pleasure was insane
Your honey dripping golden fever, the one I never had to chain
Sugar party's long been done, neither wanna be last to go
We're knee deep in this ash and coal without a thing to show
Can't you see I no longer care who says what's weak or what's true
Twice as bad for me, I'll be damned, 'cause I lived it with you
I'm gone, leaving without you baby
I'm gone, leaving without you baby
I'll never win a prize for patience, holding me back brings out my worst
You took advantage of my hunger 'till all that mattered was my thirst
I don't wanna waste my time, not gonna catch what you throw
Knee deep in this ash and coal, without a thing to show
By now it's just a joke to care, who says what's black or what's blue
Twice as bad for me, I'll be damned, cause you know I had to live it with you
We'll hold our fists together to wring out our blood-stained clothes
We'll cash the shiny chips of karma and deal it blow by blow...
I'm gone, leaving without you baby
I'm gone, leaving without you baby
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Deep Love (2.0)
05:18
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Deep Love
music: Cranham/Daley/Douglas/Hart/O'keefe
Lyrics: Jamie Douglas
Am I the only one
Gonna live without deep love?
Scrape along my hands and knees
Euthanize the poisoned dove
Skull burns with the old truth
That you stab with tepid lies
Your faith rots with the ravens
Your soul's already died
It all comes down to your body
Let it soak and shake
Give it up a little just for habit's sake
The best I can hope for, just live without deep love
Your the warden of my weakness
And the powder in my case
Stop a cruiser with your street-strut
Or a lion-charge with your face
Shank me on the corner
Board the chamber with a smile
You know your promise terrifies me
Like a spider with perfect thighs
It all comes down to your body
Let it soak and shake
Give it up a little just for habit's sake
The best I can hope for, just live without deep love
Am I the only one
Gonna live without deep love
Scramble for some shelter
From the flaming towers above
In the Babylonian bordello
Your grip locked on my keys
You know there ain't no use in running
When your nightmare's your disease
It all comes down to your body
Let it soak and shake
Give it up a little just for habit's sake
The best I can hope for, just live without deep love
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Already Gone
04:52
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Already Gone
lyrics by Jamie Douglas
music by Cranham/Daley/Douglas/Hart/O'keefe/
Leaning back, you throw on your favourite driving song
Dark on the road, the show tonight was good but a little too long
Gotta push the lines, to get a buzz bigger and bolder than before
Till you're half asleep, stained fingers pointing the van to your door
But I know... there ain't anything about you I could even say is real
And you know... you can't take a boy like me and roll and crack him like a wheel
At least you don't need the guts to say goodbye when you're already gone
So I don't need the guts to say goodbye when you're already gone
It's no surprise, when you check out for weeks at a time
You take a holiday, but don't look like you've seen the sun shine
You wanna meet to thow a hasty future at my feet if you try
You just need a wad of cash, a pack of smokes and let me kiss your cheeks dry
But I know... there ain't anything about you I could even say is real
And you know... you can't take a boy like me and roll and crack him like a wheel
At least you don't need the guts to say goodbye when you're already gone
So I don't need the guts to say goodbye when you're already gone
Gotta see your face again, should I look you down hard?
Do the tracking dogs ever pick up your flesh calling card?
No, I couldn't smoke you out of your pit if I wanted to try
And I never made a promise to love you till that day that you die
But I know... there ain't anything about you I could even say is real
Cuz you know... you can't take a boy like me and crack and roll him like a wheel
At least you don't need the guts to say goodbye when you're already gone
Your voice will shatter bridges but we know that your will's not that strong
Your face has been my handicap for common sense and reason too long
And I don't need the guts to say goodbye when you're already gone
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Just Another Noise
04:25
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Just Another Noise
music: Cranham/Daley/Douglas/O'keefe/Hart
lyrics: Jamie Douglas
Just another dancer
Shine your sex-light on the floor
Just another chance to
Show us all you're so hardcore
Just another vision
Think we've seen all this before
When you pull all your crazy shit on me
Split your throat in two screaming at the night
Whatcha gonna swallow to be a victim or a vampire tonight
Just another winner
Align the stars that see your sheets
Just another sinner
Bondage tape to keep your heat
Just another talker
Truths falls hard sticks to your feet
When you pull all your crazy shit on me
Split your throat in two screaming at the night
Whatcha gonna swallow to be a victim or a vampire tonight
Just another blackout
Oh those days, remember when
Just another phone call
You were in a fighting mood again
Just another cop car
But you can't shoot me in the pen
When you pull all your crazy shit on me
Split your throat in two screaming at the night
Whatcha gonna swallow to be a victim or a vampire tonight
Just another noise, you know you are baby yeah, yeah, yeah
Just another noise, I can't ever turn you down
Just another noise, you know you are baby yeah, yeah, yeah
Just another noise, I won't ever,ever turn you down
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No Parachute
04:04
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No Parachute
music: Cramham/Daley/Douglas/Hart/O'keefe
lyrics: Jamie Douglas
The first night I saw you
Sung to me, stole a kiss or two
And it's boy meets girl meets the sky meets feeling you
One more toke and smile, no parachute
Caught the reds, sung the blues
Made him green 'cause you never choose
So it's boy who's caught on the ride pulled in by you
With one false talk of love, no parachute
Your eyes branded on me
Your trust handed to me
Then your lies, they landed on me
Now here's no landing, no landing for you
I saw your head down
One last wave, you're shadow bound
You almost gave up your black truths
A fear gripping you from your lost youth
So it's boy missed your hands by an inch to pull you through
Trying to stop time as you fall, no parachute
Your eyes were branded on me
Your trust handed to me
Then your lies, they landed on me
Now here's no landing, no landing for you
Your eyes were branded on me
Your touch handed to me
Your lies landed on me
Now here's no landing, no landing for you
Trying to stop time as you fall, no parachute
Trying to stop time as you fall, no parachute
Trying to stop time as you fall, no parachute
Trying to stop time as you fall
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Emily Haines On My Car Stereo (JJ Remix)
music: Douglas/Hart
lyrics: Douglas
If you just had one wish, tell me the truth now
Would ya be a little selfish, it's alright, no one's around now
If that wish were mine, world peace would have to wait you know
After all I'm just a man, and you're impossibly beautiful
Oh, when I'm driving I think it's funny all the while
Years of building a backbone blown apart by your smile, but
What would you say if I told you when we're alone
It feels like Emily Haines on my car stereo
Are we like children, after our innocence has died
Are we like lovers, with one who's mind is a little more than fried
If you were famous, would you remember my face
To me you're already famous, so gaze a little while more just in case
Oh, when I'm driving I think it's funny all the while
Years of building a backbone blown apart by your smile
What would you say if I told you when we're alone
It feels like Emily Haines on my car stereo
Guess I never mentioned, how you paint pictures in my mind
When I clown and tease ya, your look of shock gets me perfectly high
You won't see it coming, but you really won't be surprised
One of these times, gonna kiss you deeply 'neath a new moon sky, sky, sky
Oh, when I'm driving I think it's funny all the while
Years of building a backbone blown apart by your smile
What would you say if I told you when we're alone
It feels like Emily Haines on my car stereo
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The Powergoats Ottawa, Ontario
The Powergoats are an Ottawa rock outfit delivering a strong range of musical dynamics and live shows entertaining thousands of people in Ontario and Quebec since they emerged on the scene in 2009. Led by singer-songwriter Jamie Douglas, the sounds of this sizable band have been described as "retro rock pre-soaked in blues, with a hint of folk". ... more
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