The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring

The Besnard Lakes The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Lyrics
1.Like The Ocean, Like The Innocent Pt. 1: The Ocean


2.Like The Ocean, Like The Innocent Pt. 2: The Innocent

Run from this town with empty arms
Find all your homes and I burn 'em down
Start all the wars that we wanted to see
And I watch them all go by in the cavalcade

I was told where you hide from the shortwave,
Was sent in the night; in the cold

You're like the ocean,
You're like the innocent
What's in your empty eyes?
(and I watched them all go by in the cavalcade)

Deciphered your lines from the shortwave,
Said, 'Kill all the swine; young & old!'

Take it off
Take the noose around my neck


3.Chicago Train

Always hang
How I met you one night
Always for all day
Hiding

hoooooo hooooo

For now where you stay
For the ending
I pray then won't take away

hoooooo hooooo

This is the last train to Chicago
No matter where I will go
I'd spy on you

This is the last time I will follow
And if I who might be
I will be whole
We will be I'd say

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh ahhhhhhhhhhhhh
hooooooooo hooooooooooo


4.Albatross

Sad tyrant, turn on a dime in the sultry West Coast night
Hopping along skid row, amongst the hopeful and their junk

You showed me so much
Took us to a new high
Speeding along in a clean machine
Riding the wake of another one, so mean

Those days are now long gone
Wish I had your picture
Memory will do the trick
So I wanted to help you

And I have to admit things got weird for a bit
And I screamed for you,
There goes my man


5.Glass Printer

Printer, glass-printer
Tried to take a photo of his ancestors
Poor, unstylish, classroom boy, will you ever learn not to laugh
so loud?

Printer, glass-printer, ah
Lied to make his photo ops seem uncensored

Poor old, passed-on, see-through boy lied to make his photo ops
seem uncensored
Will you ever learn not to laugh so loud?


6.Land Of Living Skies Pt. 1: The Land

(Instrumental)


7.Land Of Living Skies Pt. 2: The Living Skies

Take a long walk down the countryside
Take a long, long time to clear my mind
Living behind these steel bars

Someone strolls along the oceanside,
Looking out to 'The Land of Living Skies',
Casting glances from tear-filled eyes

Up on top of this burned-down countryside
This fire envelops me

I'll be sitting on that beach
Thinking 'was it ever too late?'
Once was great, all falls into place
We make our mistakes and take them to our graves

Up on top of this barren mountainside
This fire that follows me
As I'm wading into the ocean, wading until I get knee-deep
Look up to 'The Land of Living Skies'
While I'm drowning in a sea,
(look up to 'The Land of Living Skies')
Drowning in a sea of glory

They show you the room where you stay
Cold walls of concrete and clay
Through one tiny window you'll see
Armys of soldiers in green, all for you

Gathered, as stones from a grave:
Troops with dark horses at bay
As far as your eyes can see:
Millions of men on one knee, all for you


8.And This Is What We Call Progress

Sun shine seems so bright
Lonely days go by
Sunlight seems so bright
Lonely days/cold nights/no light

Old ghosts, in a line
Evil in the mine
Ageless Indian, will you cast an offering?
'Cause some of us have to hide all night

Spanish & Indian, can you make the people reign
'Cause some of us built too high, oh why?

Dim the lights


9.Light Up The Night

You never go out anymore
You planned this from America

Are soldiers have you cry
All others have watched you die

For lighting up the night
For lighting up the night
For living up
Living up
Living up
Living up

You better move on they'd say
You'll never be safe this way

For lighting up the night
For lighting up the night
For lighting up the night
For lighting up the night
For living up
Living up
Living up
Living up
For living up
For living up
Living up
Living up

Going to ask her to stay
As she's walking away

Going to ask her to stay
As she's walking away


10.The Lonely Moan

(Instrumental)