-- YUKON --
EVERYTHING A MAN COULD WANT - [C&W slop]
27 August 2005 - Whitehorse YT
I got me a truck, I got me a dog
I got me a rifle and I got me a trailer
And I got me a woman and a nice motorboat
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[chorus:]
I got about everything a man could want
I got about everything a man could want
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I got me a son and I got me a horse
I got me a freezer and a new Nintendo
I got a grenade and a bag of purple condoms
[chorus]
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I got me a name and I got me a history
I got vaccinations and digital radio
I got cops for friends and a good pharmacist
[chorus]
IN DAWSON CITY - [electro-jazz]
27/28 August 2005 - Whitehorse YT
In Dawson City in '98
The goldfields burned like wildfires in the North
Klondike Kate and Mukluk Maggie
Shacked up with a slick-tongued Swedish gambler
Nights were spent as usual
Extracting gold from lonely lucky prospectors
Mornings they'd make a sandwich
Kate on top and Sven on bottom and Meg in the middle
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In Dawson City in '98
The chechakos arrived, the food supplies ran out
Klondike Kate and Mukluk Maggie
Stuck it out traded for gold dust and wolverine hides
Poor young slick-tongued Sven
Could deal faster that he could draw his Colt
Winter winds blew memories away
And the living praised and devoured the dead, as usual
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[instrumental]
In Dawson City in '99
Gold shone bright, times were good while they lasted
Then Dawson burnt to the ground
And blew away in the lonesome winter wailing winds
BEYOND THIS HORIZON - [very loud rock]
29 August 2005 - Whitehorse YT
There's a bright light on the dark horizon
Is it an early sunrise or a late atomic bomb?
We won't find out until tomorrow, if any
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[chorus:] And what's beyond this horizon?
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There's something dry in the sub-arctic rain
A dry space, a dry moment, a dry dry dream
A mirror of an ice cube in hell's barbecue
[chorus]
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I'm a desert creature in your softest dreams
I'm an armadillo for your love, digging in
I'm a chuckwalla nesting in your magma heart
[chorus]
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There's a dark shadow on the bright future
It's who we are, what we did, what we mean, why
It's just a baseball of love, lost in the sun
[chorus]
GIRL OF THE NORTH COUNTRY - [cyrillic polyrhythmic]
30 August 2005 - Whitehorse YT
She came here with nothing but brains and old pains
And a framework of freshly-carved willow
She's all wrapped up in some furs she trapped
Since she showed up a couple years ago
The animalistas think she's evil but they can go to hell
Ignore the gamey smell, she's here now
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Those muskrat legwraps set off her thighs real nice
When she dances with ice queens in moonlight
Her eyes glow like an eskimo's whenever she sees
Something more than alive around midnight
And stroking her throat and smoking a catch
And watching and moving along with the northern lights
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There's live and death and women and men and zen
And lost children and lost thoughts and lost dreams
There's 57 flavors of reality served up
Like buttercup puzzles — can you solve them this season?
She's all wrapped up in whatever comes her way
Another supper of roast dreams and roast venison
ST STEPHEN LAUGHS - [medium folk-rock]
30 August 2005 - Lake Laberge YT
Up on the ridgeline on Silver Mountain
St Stephen laughs while the lightning rolls like wildfire
And down below here, right in my chest
There's a hole where there used to be my heart
There's a hole where there used to be my heart
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On Silver Mountain, Stephen prunes the rivers back
Snipping happily at waterfalls and springs
And down below here, I look around here
And I wonder where all the times have gone
And I wonder where all the times have gone
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On Silver Mountain, each night's a comedy
St Stephen laughs as the seasons roll around, around
And down below here, right in my head
There's a sponge where there used to be a brain
There's a sponge where there used to be a brain
WHO LET MY DUCKS OUT - [honking electro-rock]
31 August 2005 - Lake Laberge YT
Who let my ducks out?
Where have all my ducks gone?
[repeat 273 times with various sound effects & electronic noise]
I CAN'T MAKE ANY PROGRESS WITH YOU - [lush pop]
31 August 2005 - Lake Laberge YT
I'm making lotsa progress now, I've discovered all sortsa stuff
Like curing diseases and how to stay all buffed-up
And all the secret entrances and why the sky is blue-ish
But I just can't make any progress with you
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I'm making real good progress now, I've invented all sortsa crap
Electro-titanium tweezers that can piv up bugs and zap'em
And 85 applications for organic surgical glue
But I just can't make any progress with you
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I'm making super progress now, my shrink sez I'm almost there
I've developed 17 languages for filling out questionnaire forms
Pretty soon I'll beat my neuroses and stop jerking in my shoe
But I just can't make any progress with you
EVERY LOVE - [old slow jazz]
31 August 2005 - Lake Laberge YT
Clouds storm in over the mountains
Like young tigers playing carelessly
Wavelets on the lake blow by like TV snow
Under a blueberry-pie sky
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The days of our lives play out unscripted,
Improvised like cable re-runs
The history of our world's rewritten
And revised for clarification
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[chorus:]
And every day's a happy day, somewhere
And every time's a happy time, sometime
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Tornados and hurricanes wipe away our tears,
They wash away our cities
They blow up again; they blow down again;
They never looked so pretty
[chorus]
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The world is only slighter bigger
After we've eaten everything
Another summer like thunder; another winter
Goes under; another spring
[chorus]
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[bridge:]
And every love goes long, and every love's rewarded
And every love goes short, and falls down from above
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I put my finger in, I pull my camera out,
I can't look away
We climb to the center of the earth
And never come out, no Sunday
[chorus]
MOUNTAIN SONG - [new fast jazz]
1 September 2005 - Haines Junction YT
The mountains are alive
With lightning & missile defense systems
The flashes burn my eyes
Like a hawk's claws, an eagle's talons
But that's old -
Who wants to hear another song about mountains?
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The craggy snowy mountains,
Like carbuncles on Mother Nature's ass
If your butt looked like that,
You'd see at least one dermatologist
Mountains are organic,
Like hemlock & cobras & sunburns & aspergrass
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I fell off Sulphur Mountain
And I rolled into your lonely life
I went back to Sulphur Mountain
And I don't even know how to fish
I dream of the mountains
And snowy ridges as sharp as shark knives
WELCOME TO THE ICEBOX - [lively pop]
2 September 2005 - Haines Junction YT
Welcome to the icebox, it's your camp, it's your heart
Every dream you ever had, every hand you've ever held
Every crystal memory coursing through your bloodstream
Welcome to the icebox sucker, sucker, sucker
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Welcome to the permafrost, right under your fingertips
You walk on it, you crawl on it, you hold it so close
This land is your land, this land is focking frozen
Welcome to the permafrost sucker, sucker
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Welcome to reality, everything is absolutely right
Everything is absolutely true, like ice, like fire
You walk patiently, watching your breath watching you
Waiting for the electrician or someone like him
Waiting for the next warm raw of sun to slither in
Waiting for anything that's not froze like ancient sin
Welcome to yesterday and today and tomorrow
Welcome to yesterday and today and tomorrow
SHE THROWS DOWN HER COMPUTER - [slow boogie]
3 September 2005 - Kluane Natl Park, YT
She throws down her computer and she leaps into freedom
She throws down her clothes and she jumps right in the lake
She swims underwater with her eyes wide open
Little fishes nibble her, taking all that they can take
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[chorus:] And she touches bottom, and she touches top
And she touches start (start start) and she touches stop
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She stands on a rock and she sings to the hills
Her voice bounces off and she bounces back again
Her song is a cocktail stirred into all the colors
Her music's molten ice, as piercing as the rain [chorus]
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With her hand she reaches out and takes you by the throat
With her hand she drops you, you drop right in the (ice/fire)
She walks through the air with her eyes wide open
She throws her computer down and cuts all the wires [chorus]
THE MUSIC IS GONE - [electro jazz]
4 September 2005 - Kluane Natl Park, YT
The music is gone now, a bubble burst long ago
Resistance has shattered, as if it ever really mattered
And wandering alone in the park
Eyes glistening in the dark, in the dark
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Empty houses, empty window, flickering winter light shows
A slow dance that's not a tango, that's no dance we know
And slowly climbing darkened stairs
As if anyone cares, who cares
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Not needlepoint, pinpoint precision, a clean incision
Hands waving like a magician, a magickal decision
And looking at it without fright
Seeing it in the night, in the night
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Call it love, call it lust, call it might, call it must
Time vacuums uo all debris, even you, even me
And listening to a piano in the dark
One last flickering spark, spark, spark
HAPPY HOLIDAY - [medium rock]
4 September 2005 - Kluane Natl Park, YT
[chorus:]
Flash! Bang! Crash! Bang! Heads up! Sturm und Drang!
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The show had just started when the bombs went off
The brass band fell over, the clowns' heads popped
Elephants and acrobats flew around the big top [chorus]
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The crowd had just gathered when the lights flashed
A long moment of silence til the planes crashed
So many pieces anywhere, who can do the math? [chorus]
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[bridge:]
Just another incident, just another day
Just another roadblock on the expressway
And who gets paid? And who leads the prayers?
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The moon had just gone down when the world fragmented
Everything in slo-mo like some demented dream
Is this The End or just a bad film I rented? [chorus]
MY MONKEY GIRL - [flashy pop]
6 September 2005 - Whitehorse YT
You and me and she and thee
And he and ye and them and we
We're all dressed-up chimpanzees
'Rang-tangs with nakeder skins
Full of monkey-lust and monkey-dreams
And monkey-fears and other monkey-things
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[chorus:]
But monkey-girl, I love you anyway
But monkey-girl, I love you anyway
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Monkey-girl, monkey-girl, pick off my lice
Monkey-girl, monkey-girl, treat me real nice
Lick away some of my monkey-tears
Parallel processes between the ears
Full of monkey-loves and monkey-fears
And monkey-shits and monkey-beers [chorus]
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I am he as you are me
And you are we and we are all monkeys
Pretending (pretending) to be civilized
Showing the truth in our monkey-eyes
Full of monkey-truths and monkey-lies
And monkey-food we metabolize [chorus]
I HAVE FOUND MY LIMITS - [folky rock]
7 September 2005 - Whitehorse YT
I have found my limits
They're sitting all around me
I try to get on well with them
And have a good relationship
And have a good relationship
And have a good relationship
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I'm surrounded by my limits
There's limits as far as I can see
Limits up close and limits to infinity
We all take our skins off
We all take our skins off
We all take our skins off
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I scrub my limits' backs
And they lick between my toes
And we smoke joints in the hot-tub
And watch the stars go 'round
And watch the stars go 'round
And watch the stars go 'round
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There's no limits to my limits
And there's no place I begin
And somewhere west of California
The sun sets slowly in the sea
The sun sets slowly in the sea
The sun sets slowly in the sea
SHE'S SO COMPLEX - [techo boogie]
7 September 2005 - Whitehorse YT
She probably loves him, the percentage is right
She'll probably sleep with him again tonight
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[chorus:]
At the edge of chaos, it's a complex world
At the edge of chaos, she's a complex girl
Her eyes spin around her complex smile
At the edge of chaos, all the while
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There's a parrot on her shoulder and a tazer in her bag
The ways she loves him, he doesn't even try to brag
[chorus]
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She walks thru the jungle, thru the city, to the sea
She lays down in the sand and thinks of complexity
[chorus]
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She's self-organized and critical, but in an adaptive way
She'll probably do tomorrow who/what she didn't do today
[chorus]
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The dreams she admires most caught the last bus for the coast
She doesn't feel too lonely, just left-behind like most
[chorus]
THE SUN JUST WENT SUPERNOVA - [bouncy pop]
7 September 2005 - Whitehorse YT
The sun just went supernova
It was only about ten minutes ago
You probably just heard about it
It'll really ruin our day (our day)
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The sun just went supernova
It was really a big surprise
No psychics had predicted this
And now it's burn out their eyes
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The sun just went supernova
I was skinnydipping at the beach
I'll probably get a real bad suntan
Then my bones will start to bleach
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The sun just went supernova
There's not enough time for prayers
And no time for sex or tea or dessert
It'll really ruin our day (our day)
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