M.Y.S.D

Jane

Words & Music by Steven Duffy & Steven Page

The girl works at the store sweet Jane St. Clair

Was dazzled by her smile while I shopped there

it wasn't long before I lived with her

I sang her songs while she dyed her hair

Chorus:

Jane, divided, but I can't decide what side I'm on

Jane decided only cowards stay, while traitors run

Jane, Jane

I'd bring her gold and frankincense and myrrh

She thought that I was making fun of her

She made me feel I was fourteen again

That's why she thinks it's cooler if we'd just stay friends

Jane doesn't think a man could ever be faithful

Jane isn't giving me a chance to be shameful

Jane, Jane

I wrote a letter, she should have got it yesterday

That life could be better by being together

is what I cannot explain to Jane

The girl works at the store, sweet Jane St. Clair

Was dazzled by her smile while I shoplift there

No promises as vague as Heaven

No Juliana next to my Evan

Jane, desired by the people at the school and work

Jane is tired, 'cause every man becomes a lovesick jerk

Jane, Jane

Intermittently

Words & Music by Steven Page

Someone somewhere has unglued our epoxy

And now I'm kissing you by proxy

Hope you don't mind

Somewhere someone is dreaming of me

Tries to love me, hope you don't mind

I love you

intermittently

I love you intermittently

She's a lot like you but she don't look like you

Okay, she's not you

But she'll do fine

I got my life on hold just to avoid confrontation

But should I tell you to your face and

Risk my hide?

I love you

intermittently

I love you intermittently

When immeasurably

Turns to intermittently

There's no use in going on

Except for fear of being wrong

Every morning I just hit the ground yawning...

Stick around if you enjoy disaster

'Cause if you can't see what I'm after

You must be blind

I love you

intermittently

I love you intermittently

Didn't have the heart to say goodbye

So I continued in my charlatan ways

Did I say heart?

I meant to say guts

Now I'm on my own and I'm sorry that you're gone

These Apples

Words & Music by Ed Robertson

A friend brought me flowers, she said they were lilacs

But I've never been good with plants

Her next presentation, a new dictionary

She'd circled the word "romance"

So enthusiastic, a little bit drastic

I shaved her name in my head

And as she beheld it, she said I misspelled it;

Need more be said!

Chorus:

These apples are delicious!

"As a matter of fact they are," she said

Can all this fruit be free?

She wrote me a letter as big as a phonebook

I've never been big on mail

I sent her a postcard from somewhere near Lethebridge

And wondered if it still went by rail

I've never been frightened of being enlightened

But some things can go too far

Though sometimes I stammer and mix up my grammar,

You get what my meanings are

Chorus

I'm not trying to sing a love song -- I'm trying to sing in tune.

I know I am sometimes headstrong

Falling love, catching fire -- I want to be consumed

Wondering will I ever tire, will I ever tire!

Chorus

You Will Be Waiting

Words & Music by Steven Page

As we walk together through the autumn, nearing winter

Through the dying leaves and trees we call our home and native land,

You say you don't believe a thing I say, I say you don't believe a thing

You say you can't believe how I don't understand

Chorus:

But I Know

That you will be waiting

Oh I know

That you will be waiting

Oh I know

You Will be waiting

Waiting there for me

You say you cannot live with me, you need your own identity

And now we air our laundry on national TV

And so you hate my arrogance, my smothering and sitting on the fence,

But I'm afraid of the hard permanence of letting you go free

Chorus

I'm so sick of fighting and that effigy you're lighting looks

An awful lot like whose name I just can't quite place

And though you say it's not supposed to be me or any entity

Still through the lames and smoke I see I recognize that face

Chorus

And you were someone who would

Always tell me things I don't know,

And tell me where to go

But there I'll always go

Whether or not you're waiting

I don't care if you'll be waiting

But please say that you will be waiting there for me

Words & Music by Steven Page

A is for angry, which is what you are at me

A is for adult, which is what I'll never be

A is for applesauce, my favorite meal

A is for Adam, which is how I sometimes feel;

Like I'm the only man on Earth, and I've forgotten what that's worth

A is for Arthur, he's a lovable drunk

A M & Azing, like Thelonius Monk

A is for argument, A is for apparent

A is for antagonism that's not even there and

it's just you begging for attention or something I won't even mention

Chorus:

And I don't even know why you keep on trying

Like I don't even know why I keep on lying

There are millions of people in worlds of their own

And two of them can't let go

A is for algebra, I learned it in school

A is what Fonzie said, 'cause he was very cool

A is for adversary, A is for affection

A is arousal, you are giving me an erection

C'mon I'm trying to show affection for longer than a half an hour

Chorus

I met a woman I used to know

Long before you, long ago

All I could say, after hello

Was "are you still single?"

A is for attitude I can't help but wield

A is for arrogance; emotional shield

A is for acting, A is for abhorrently

A is for asshole, which is what I am, how rude of me.

I owe you an apology I'm sorry

Chorus

Everything Old is New Again

Words & Music by Stephen Duffy & Steven Page

Learn to lose, it's easier that way

We've paid our dues, but we can't make life pay

All across the world, people going mad

in their mother's cars, the kids are feeling sad

That's how it is, and I'll see you later

Everything old is new again

Everything under the sun

Now that I'm back with you again

We hug and we kiss

We sit and make lists

We drink and I bandage your wrists

Wasted youth -- there wasn't much to waste

Down to the bone, and still losing weight

With all the wishing in the world glistening in her eyes

But when I say I love her, she thinks I'm telling lies

is it all lost? No, we never had it

Everything old is new again

Everything under the sun

All of our fears come true again

Recycle reuse

Resent and refuse

Our parent's ideals and view

She thinks the afterlife might just be where the action is

With high schools built like prisons, she can't find a way to live

Moved back home to fill the empty nest

Afraid to roam, in love with second best

While somewhere in the world, she's hosting her own show

And everyone she questions never seems to know

Who they are and where they are going

Everything old is new again

Everything under the sun

Now that I'm without you again

I wake up and eat

I go back to sleep

And let my nightmares repeat

All across the world, people going mad

Alternative Girlfriend

Words & Music by Stephen Duffy & Steven Page

You're in an all-girl band

Your futon's second hand

Your parents understand but you don't care

I have a job in a shop

I'm an undercover cop

I make sure the customers aren't thieves

Old at being young

Young at being old

Everything's on hold within our evolution

Chorus:

You're my alternative girlfriend

I love you, and now you cannot pretend

There's nothing left that won't cross over

Last night we slept on the lawn

you woke up and I was gone

Back to the dream I dream to leave

My life with her is a bore

A worn-out metaphor

No more surprises up its sleeve

We're old at being young

Young at being old

Everything's been sold to other's revolutions

Chorus

You live above your dad's four-car garage

With your vinyl and imaginary entourage

if I pull up in a U-Haul, pack up quick

So we can get out of this town 'cause it makes me sick

Chorus

Am I The Only One?

Words & Music by Ed Robertson

Am I the only one who gets to make you laugh.,

Laugh until you cry?

Am I the only one who asks you to go,

Go on without me?

Am I the only one who loves when you leave

Your hair down in front of your eyes?

Chorus:

And who do you think I am?

And who do you think I'll be?

without You?

Am I the only one who had to dress you up

To see how you fell down

Am I the only one who needs you to go,

Go on about me?

Am I the only one who loves when you leave

Your hair down in front of your eyes?

Chorus

Little Tiny Song

Words & Music by Andrew Creeggan

Hey I'm a cow, I'm curious

Hey watch me now, I'm furious

Hey I'm a cow, I'm full of hate

Hey watch me now, I'm on your plate

Life, in A Nutshell

Words & Music by Steven Page & Ed Robertson

When she was three

Her barbies always did it on the first date

Now she's with me,

There's never any need for them to demonstrate

She's like a baby, I'm like a cat;

When we are happy, we both get fat and still

it's never enough, it's never enough,

it's never enough

Chorus:

But I don't tend to worry about the things that other people say,

And I'm learning that I wouldn't want it any other way

Call me crazy, but it really doesn't matter

All that matters to me is she

Her life, in a nutshell

No way would she want it to change me

it's not that easy 'cause

My time is often decided for me

For me

She memorized every pencil crayon colour in the box

Her blue-green eyes complement the burn sienna in her locks

She's at the movies, I'm on the phone;

When we're separated, we're never alone, but still

it's never enough, it's never enough,

No it's never enough

Chorus

I fell down

With no one there to catch me from falling

Then she came 'round

And only her tenderness stopped me from bawling my eyes out

I'm OK

And that's why

Her life, in a nutshell ...

The Wrong Man Was Convicted

Words & Music by Stephen Duffy & Steven Page

Who's lonely now?

Which one of us is suffering?

Who's in his cups? Which one of us recovering?

Who likes to look at pictures and cries, but way too late?

Who doesn't want to change a thing, accepting it was fate?

Chorus:

The wrong man was convicted

You know I did the deed

I thought that you would wait for me

Your wants I needn't heed

The wrong man lies beside you

And waits for you to wake

And all because I lacked conviction,

The judgment's my mistake

Who's breathless now?

Who only hyperventilates?

Who'd die for you! Who's dying inside anyway?

Which one of us is sunshine and which one's growing dim?

while two men dream of you at night, do you just dream of him?

Chorus

Who's lonely now?

Who's reaching out to no one?

Who's lonely now?

it takes one to know one

I changed my mind; you said that I could change it back

I wanted space, and now change has fallen through the cracks

if I'm again beside your body, don't tell me where it's been

it's cruel, unusual punishment to kiss fingerprinted skin

Chorus

it's my mistake

Great Provider

Words by Steven Page & Ed Robertson

Music by Jim Creeggan, Steven Page & Ed Robertson

You and I have been through this before

I owe you my whole life, nothing more

I never said that I liked you the most

You're my father, I'm your son, who's the Holy Ghost?