eternity blues

[simplyirenic]

  

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(every new pornographers song is actually about roald amundsen.)


1. firework in the falling snow

maybe clean the heart off your sleeve
careful of the mess that you leave
oh, you will be damned if you do
and if it's the price we've come to
i'll go as far as this thing goes

whatever you're selling, i'll
take it all

the hardangervidda, the belgica—and dr. frederick albert cook.



2. the bones of an idol

you hold up the cup
you've been searching for
since you were young
when you still had the bones of an idol
if you still had the bones of an idol
you'd be long, long gone
but something keeps turning you on

in the tracks of sir john franklin with the gjøa.



3. fantasy fools

here come the fortune seekers
using muscle memory dreaming fever
the fortune seekers
what we wanted deadly clear
we wanted rapture, well, it's been here
the plan to launch a careful strategy
is spread out on the bedspread carelessly

a hotel room in copenhagen.



4. failsafe

ready to bolt
at the first glimpse of failsafe
signing my checks
with a name that's not mine
...
raising a flag
at the first sign of failsafe
another red flag and
we've lost half the team

the trip south. the first winter. the first attempt.



5. your hands (together)

put put put your hands together
for the cause and cure is calling
put put put your hands together
for the silver bullet falling
digging through and past the center
of the earth go straight
play the scientist and vandal
sweating either way

first to the pole.



6. go places

come one now, come all ye
this story breaks free here
tales from the back pages
from somewhere, in scena
deus ex machina

sometimes winning a race is losing a race.



7. whiteout conditions

everyone suddenly busy
suddenly dizzy
you're so easy, it's pushing you over
you're taking tours
of a treacherous strip of the badlands
you have your demands
maybe you riot for nothing -
it's just a bad hand

the maud and what comes after.



8. adventures in solitude

balancing on one wounded wing
circling the edge of the never ending
the best of the vanished marvels
have gathered inside your door

returning in the n25. leaving on the norge.



9. ballad of a comeback kid

recite your lines, and i'll quote scriptures
everything was fine until membership lost its privileges
everyone in town wanted to be around you
this went on for awhile until they finally found you

my life as an explorer.



10. wide eyes

and if i see no hope for me
i still see hope for you
in the high rise of the morning
the exception that proves my rule

bro he knew he was gonna die bro