A Collection (2000-2012)

The Be Good Tanyas A Collection (2000-2012) Lyrics
1.Draft Daughter's Blues aka Ootischenia


2.Little Black Bear


3.Scattered Leaves (New Mix)


4.Light Enough To Travel

Wound up drunk again on Robson St.
Strange cuz we always agreed
At the start of every evening
That's the last place I wanna be
Coffee drinkers dressed in black with no sugar
They don't give me no respect
They say look her comes another one
And I don't know what they mean yet

And I say
Keep it light enough to travel...
Don't let it all unravel
Keep it light enough to travel

Promise me we won't go into the nightclub
I feel so fucked up when I'm in there
Can't tell the bouncers from the customers
And I don't know which ones I prefer

Promise me we won't go into the nightclub
I really think that it's obscene
What kind of people go to meet people
Someplace they can't be heard or seen

Keep it light enough to travel...
Don't let it all unravel
Keep it light enough to travel

I broke the windows of the logging company
Just to get a little release
I had to throw down my accordion
To get away from the police

And I say...

Keep it light enough to travel...


5.Junkie Song

Took a walk in my neighborhood
It was two in the mourning
By the skytrain station

The streets were full of junkies and homeless
And they all wanted something
They all wanted something

And what am I supposed to do?
There are too many of you
Too many of you

And sometimes they look you straight in the eye
Saying 'I too am human, you could easily be here
Easily be here'

Although we all hover between apathy and compassion
Fill up all our days with so much distraction
Whatever makes it easier to see what we don't want to

But we all live here
We all live here
We all live here don't we?

Took a walk in my neighbourhood
It was two in the mourning
By the skytrain station

The streets were full of junkies and homeless
And they all wanted something
They all wanted something

And what am I supposed to do?
There are too many of you
Too many of you


6.Song For R. (New Mix)

You see people coming from all sides
With their broken hearts and hollow eyes
And you try to love but it's easier to hate
When the seed that was planted was watered too late
Oooh oh child
Oooh oh child
Your roots stretch down to grow up wild
Roots stretch down to grow up wild
It was late last night when the doorbell rang
My brother in some trouble
He stood shaking on the doorstep in the rain
With a freight train pounding in his veins
And I took him in and cleaned him up
Gave him some water and I put him to bed
Then I cried for the sadness of his life
And his lonely struggle with addiction
Friends say oh what a shame
Mum says no one but himself to blame
But I don't want to play that game
'cos I know the truth is not so plain
Call it a hard life or a lack of love
Call it passed down from his father
Call it lack of faith in god above
There are no easy answers
He is just a child
He is just a child
Arms stretched out for love
Arms stretched out for love
Arms stretched out for love


7.Gospel Song

Where /did we go/ when the blue sky/ turned to liquid?
And the cold trees/stood naked all up high/ on the mountain
We were growing up
so strong

I have/ found a flower /that is growing/ in the forest
And we talked/by the hours
We/ weren't lovers
But I loved you/Oh love

And Oh beautiful clouds
I go sailing through
Oh golden clouds
I've been sailing through you

Well my mother/ was a garden of all things
unspoken
And my father/ came around me like a hurricane
That I'll soldier (?)
And my sister/ she is wondering
what hell is all around here

But there's beauty
all around
But there's beauty
all around

What you do/ is sacred
And what you say/ doesn't matter much
You're moving/ your lips
But your mind/ is on fire

Ah the steam is rising/
I did once, I
Love came right through me from above
And I sang up to my god
And it saved me once again

If you have brothers/ then you can understand
What it is to love/ and grow up to love

Things get shattered.

And Oh beautiful clouds
I go sailing through
Oh golden clouds
I've been sailing through you.