Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse

The Besnard Lakes Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse Lyrics
1.Disaster

Baby, I've got some words for you
When you get up in the afternoon
But you're not at home
You're out there alone
So I've called to capture devices for spies with vices

Generals have fought for spies like you
Our lady with secrets written all over her body
But I've heard you lie
I've read your file
You knew to gather your life's work and shred it to pieces

Baby come on, baby come on, baby come on
Baby baby won't you come on
Baby come on, baby come on, baby come on
I think there's someone here to see you

You've got disaster on your mind
They see the secrets in your eyes
They've got disaster on their minds
If they were to find you on their side

Baby come on
Disaster on your mind


2.For Agent 13

My baby, don't go
I never meant to feel that way
My baby, don't go
To be so haunted by a touch
My baby don't go
I'll play it back every day

My baby, don't go
Nothing is fair in love and war
My baby, don't go
I'll write you a love song
My baby, don't go
I'll love you whenever I'm wrong

My baby, don't go
I play it back every day

It's your love, don't tell them what you know
They have ways of making you tell them
He messed up
Forsaking our love

It's your life and it's your love


3.And You Lied To Me

All the dangerous games you played out after dark
They never asked, or forced to hold you down
In the chamber where you built all those radios

In the years that passed from forty one to forty five
And the neighbours asked you to take those antennas down
Those are eyesores, eyesores

Left in, in-between the wars

You aren't even who you said you are

All the sporting goods you once sold on Mondays
All the bolts and balls couldn't satisfy your interest
All the things you tried but that remind you of the day

When you went around defusing bombs
Changing into costume to follow all the criminals in the land
Who'd ever thought you'd join a band

You aren't even who you said you are
And you lied to me, you aren't even who you said you are

When you went around defusing bombs
Changing into costume to follow all the criminals in the land
Who'd ever thought you'd join a band


4.Devastation

They won't play the song on the radio
The war is being played out
On our televisions
One stare, the drug of the nation
The cultural enriching now begins

Like a nation, like a nation

Your remaining people have no
Trenches left from which to fight
The rich; the nation hold their guns
Will rich buy back the mayhem?
While they're moving you're an owl
There's a devil flying overhead
What a fucking pile of shit

Devastation, devastation


5.Because Tonight

I know what you wrote for me
I know you're fed up with me
Can't you see what it's doing?
If you're past understanding
I'll hold these words for you
I won't say anything

Because tonight
When everyone's gone home
You'll grab the knife
To satisfy your dark needs
Because tonight
You'll suffocate by dawn
And all the world
Had wished you hadn't gone away, dear
Don't go


6.Rides The Rails

Gotta find another way to go on
You've got no way to find me

Now my father rides the rails
A northern trouble trails
He knows what paths to hike
Just enough in time to stop it

Gotta find another way to go on
You've got no way to find me

All the towns folk moved away
Even now it's hard to say
When all the villagers would run and hide
The evidence not far behind

And now my father rides the trains
With the evidence inside his brain
He must move to stay alive
Just because he knew how to stop it


7.On Bedford And Grand

You wouldn't believe the things that we saw
When we took the L train
The centre of culture at the time

You live in the city, city to city

You wouldn't believe the things that we saw
It was a chemical warfare
Were we good or were we being bad?
Creating culture on the bang

You live in the city, city to city


8.Cedric's War

I believed in obsessions
You believes in ineptitude
They had need for suggestions
When they had to tell the truth
And you wasted all your youth

Cedric fought for the English
He was rich but his parents knew
How to cope with the anguish
Of dealing with the views
That they read about in the news on Sundays