Category Archives: weakerthans

“Winter dies the same way every spring.”

The Weakerthans, “Elegy for Elsabet” (lyrics at youtube link) The song is about a girl who committed suicide. The lines immediately following the above quote: As the sky tries on its uniform of turned off t.v. gray, and the ways we watched her watch us walk away, let every rain clatter down at groaning streets… …

December 1, 2011 – 7:07 pm | By ashok | Posted in weakerthans | Comments (0)

“Beauty’s just another word I’m never certain how to spell.”

For Emma Askew. Trying to write some very short entries on epigraphs, lyrics, parts of poems for a readership that’s putting in 12 hour shifts or more. The Weakerthans, “Reconstruction Site” Trouble with wandering away is we don’t know when we’re being taken for a ride. Try rejecting the bandwagon tendencies of peers: going to …

November 13, 2011 – 2:24 pm | By ashok | Posted in love, weakerthans | Comments (0)

The Weakerthans, “Everything Must Go!”

Everything Must Go! (song | official lyrics) The Weakerthans Garage Sale. Saturday. I need to pay My heart’s outstanding bills. A cracked-up compass and a pocket watch some plastic daffodils The cutlery and coffee cups I stole from all-night restaurants a sense of wonder (only slightly used) a year of two to haunt you in …

October 14, 2011 – 3:38 pm | By ashok | Posted in music, weakerthans | Comments (3)

The Passion of Politics: “Pamphleteer,” The Weakerthans

Pamphleteer (from theweakerthans.org; song available here) The Weakerthans I’m standing on this corner can’t get their attention facing rush hour faces turned around. I clutch my stack of paper, press one to a chest, then watch it swoop and stutter to the ground. I’m weary with right-angles, abbreviated daylight, waiting for a winter to be …

May 25, 2010 – 1:18 am | By ashok | Posted in music, weakerthans | Comments (0)

The Weakerthans, “Utilities”

Utilities (lyrics from songmeanings.net & theweakerthans.org, song (acoustic) available here) The Weakerthans Got this feeling That today doesn’t like me Or the air tastes like Flowers and paint There’s a sink full Of bottles and cutlery And the car Has got a list of complaints I just wish I Were a toothbrush Or a solder …

November 17, 2009 – 1:55 am | By ashok | Posted in music, weakerthans | Comments (2)

Love and Truth in a Material World: The Weakerthans, “None of the Above”

None of the Above (lyrics from theweakerthans.org / song available here) The Weakerthans All night restaurant, North Kildonan. Luke warm coffee tastes like soap. I trace your outline in spilled sugar, killing time and killing hope. This brand new strip mall chews on farmland as we fish for someone to blame. But we communicate in …

May 15, 2009 – 6:07 pm | By ashok | Posted in music, weakerthans | Comments (4)

Beyond Love: On The Weakerthans’ “Night Windows”

Night Windows The Weakerthans (song lyrics from here and here; song available here) In the stick-count for the song of knowing you’re gone Glancing up at where you lived when you lived here I see you suddenly alive and nearly smiling Stop and hold my breath and watch the way you used to be The …

November 3, 2008 – 3:43 pm | By ashok | Posted in music, weakerthans | Tagged | Comments (3)

The New World: On "Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure" by The Weakerthans

Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure The Weakerthans (lyrics confirmed here, alternate discussion, lyrics and the song itself at songmeanings, The Weakerthans’ Myspace) It had something to do with the rain leaching loamy dirt And the way the back lane came alive half moon whispered “go” For a while I heard you missing steps in …

December 8, 2007 – 4:48 am | By ashok | Posted in music, weakerthans | Tagged , | Comments (1)

On "Sun in an Empty Room," by The Weakerthans

Sun in an Empty Room The Weakerthans (lyrics mainly from here; song available here) Now that the furniture’s returning to its goodwill home With dishes and last week’s papers, rumors and elections, crosswords, our unending war the black in our fingers smear their prints on every door pulled shut Now that the last month’s rent …

September 29, 2007 – 4:08 am | By ashok | Posted in music, weakerthans | Tagged | Comments (5)

The Real Break-Up Is The Internal Crack-Up: On The Weakerthans’ "Left and Leaving"

Lyrics: My city’s still breathing, but barely it’s true Through buildings gone missing like teeth. Sidewalks are watching me think about you, Sparkled with broken glass. I’m back with scars to show. Back with the streets I know will never take me anywhere but here. Those stains in the carpet, this drink in my hand, …

June 12, 2007 – 5:22 pm | By ashok | Posted in music, weakerthans | Tagged | Comments (0)