The North Shore - Gord Downie & Bob Rock

Nancy I can see from far away I can tell you where I am today I can always feel you near enough to say I can always see you even far away I can even hear and see and sing and dance Makes me feel everything, hope and love a chance See you smile and smile Your eyes puffing to the stand Nancy I can hear you closer to the end But as we are diving in, in the middle And the end By the time I'd gotten to the end We'll start all over again

(-more takes) (Ooh, Jesus) (No, that's fine) (Okay, come on) (One, ready?) (One, two, three, four) Hello again, my friends I've come to see you again Like the east wind The laziest wind It doesn't go around you, it goes through you And night is like a room It makes the little things In your head Too important It doesn't go around you, it goes through you It doesn't go around you, it goes right through (One, two, three, four) No, I do not love you Hate the words The crime and tyranny outside Public sound It doesn't go around you, it goes through you It doen't go around you, it goes right through Hello again, my friends I've come to see you again I'm an east wind The laziest wind It doesn't go around you, it goes through you It doesn't go around you, it blows right through It doesn't go around you, it blows right through

Heal, how? Faith? Faith Powerless Against the music in their helmets I have done Such bad work, I'm greedy for life Take it, steal it If you don't feel it, I won't feel it Let's kill war with Our happy hopes and comforting myths "Don't just do Something, stand there," yeah, just stand there They say, "Ya gotta live in the moment" They keep saying, "Just live in the moment" Oh, you gotta live in the moment What they don't say, is the moment Is a wild place, is a wild place If I'm free Why do I feel like this? Is this all My dreaming accomplishes? Thus began The longest night of our lives "Understand?" "No, but it's brilliant, it's brilliant" They say, "Just live in the moment" They keep saying I gotta live in the moment Oh, just live in the moment But what they don't say is the moment Is a wild place, is a wild place Heal, how? Faith? Faith Just be yourself Or be Johnny, yeah, or be Johnny Cash They say, "Just live in the moment" They keep saying, "Ya gotta live in the moment" Oh, why can't you live in the moment? But what they don't say is the moment Is a wild place, it's a wild place

Where I am No one makes a sound No one makes a peep No one opens their mouth to speak Oh, the constant idling of winter work Work I recognise and understand No more, "What-must-he-think?' No more, "I-think-he-thinks" More, alone and idling in a van Where I am No one makes a sound Nobody makes a peep No one opens their mouth to speak Oh, the constant sifting for material Or the constantly in my head Oh, ain't that uncanny, ain't that unnatural, yeah Taking everything to bed, yeah, well Burgundy's crestfallen, she's outside herself Saying, "Why do I do what I did?", yeah When I get out of high level, yeah, when, not if I'm just going to want to hold and smell and touch my kids, yeah Dance-dance to their timeless trance And dream-dream to the stone of their dreams Go on, little drunken astronauts, go Far, straight, forgiving and brief Forget the hawks, jaguars, the knife-lickers and creeps Where I am No one makes a sound No one makes a peep No one opens their mouth to speak Moonslow your eyelashes, fluttering above your cheeks Moonslow your little lashes, please, go to sleep Yeah, please, go to sleep Honey, please, go to sleep

I am the deck You are the sea I am the lights on the water You are moving underneath Underneath me I am the rail You are the sea I don't know what I'm looking at Don't know it's even happening Underneath me It doesn't take much It doesn't take much to ruin A moment like this They curse your name They whisper, "Please, please, please" They're yelling at your waves "Stop crashing, just please, bring her home to me" People can be so mean They call you The Drowning Machine I'm the entertainment You are the sea I am the survivor You didn't even notice me Underneath I am the wreck You are the sea I yelled your name 'cross the water You just hummed a factory Underneath me It doesn't take much It doesn't take much to ruin A moment like this I call your name I whisper, "Please, please, please" Not yelling at your waves So stop crashing, just please, bring her home to me But people can be so mean They call you The Drowning Machine The Drowning Machine The Drowning Machine

"Well, I'd rather dress a wolf," you said "Well, I'd rather floss his teeth," I said We fought 'til the ferry was full And that wolf was dead "Ship's ahoy" and we're out of the car Under howling winds and skies of lead We might as well have been crossing the ocean Except this ocean is dead But there's a smudge of moon over Glenora Ferry spotlight's on the ice ahead And over your shoulder And through the snowflakes there's an aloneness Aloneness Aloneness As dead As dead As that ocean is dead And that ocean is dead Back under the glow of the interior light Blowing hard into my hands, I said "Let's leave this boat to the snowflakes To the aloneness" Aloneness Aloneness As dead As dead As that ocean is dead And that ocean is dead That ocean is dead That ocean is dead That ocean is dead That ocean is dead That ocean is dead That ocean is dead That ocean is dead That ocean is dead That ocean is dead