Gordon Downie - Vancouver divorce
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SONG: Vancouver Divorce
BAND: Gordon Downie
ALBUM: Coke Machine Glow (2001)
TABBED BY: Ross Guertin (ross_guertin@yahoo.ca)
TUNING: EADGBe
CWhat the hell is Fthis?
You said, "It's art, just fucCking mirror it."
Where did we go Fwrong?
If not here, where Gdo we belong?
In a shot of sun off an airplane far aFbove her?
In the glint of a foot-burnished manhole Gcover?
In a light, a sign of one kind or aFnother?
In the gleaming eye of a fighter or a Clover?
Sitting here at the FHortons,
so you know this is GimporCtant.
If not here, then Fwhere?
If not now, then Gwhen?
When a feather's an immovable Fforce?
When the stampede's an obstacle Gcourse?
When Ancient Train has hit Ol' Transient FHorse?
When we're a Vancouver diCvorce?
Now that we've hammered the last spike
and we've punched the railroad through,
thought there'd be more to say,
thought there'd be more to do.
I love your paintings -- don't take your colours away.
I've grown more fearful of them every day.
Swimming up their dark rivers to discover your source,
a source of strange and unrequited remorse.
And I found the end of the world, of course,
but it's not the end of the world, of course.
It's just a Vancouver divorce.
It's just a Vancouver divorce.