Jacket Made in Canada

The title so amusing no one else has ever even considered using it!

Jacket was released in 1991 on the Minneapolis label Big Money, Inc. It contains 12 new songs as well as the entire contents of our first record This. 24 Songs in All!

1991 | CD | Big Money, Inc.

Lyrics

  • Now the closets are empty used to be full

    Empty lover standing where once there was a soul

    Touch down come down

    You can lose your footing when you chase after a dream

    Emotions forming gateways not as open as they seem

    [chorus]

    All I want is some body to take me in their arms say 'sall right

    I have wanted that all a long don't worry I won't hold my breath

    Why waste time and money what we know is the truth 

    Funny all of our lives when they blast through the roof 

    Come down touch down 

    A body at rest stays at rest all decided long ago 

    Nothing in the language how well I know 

    [chorus]


    Music: Arcwelder
    Words: S. Macdonald

  • I can't stop this daydream in my life

    You dodge the edge of the daydream in my mind

    Why do you try to stop this good thing all the time

    Bigger, fatter, wider, deeper still

    I'd have my back against the wall be climbing up that hill

    I try to control the brushfire in my life

    You fan the flames of the brushfire ever higher

    You have always been very powerful to me

    Bigger, fatter, wider, deeper still

    I'd have my back against the wall be climbing up that hill


    Music: R. Graber
    Words S. Macdonald

  • It seems one day that you'll be spitting the next day you are sitting

    next to him holding his hand

    It all adds up to aggravating it all adds up to irritating

    I'm afraid I don't understand

    One day you say that you hate him the next week you act like you love him

    why can't you make up your damn mind

    Before my company was welcome today I am an imposition

    happens to me all of the time

    Hear all the sights , see all the sounds

    I'll always be frustrated again

    I throw myself into the fire and I will burn for my desire

    fall to my death upon the rocks

    These setbacks take their toll upon me I try too hard and I will

    finally trap myself here with my own locks

    What I've seen really shouldn't matter you'd think that I had always had her

    why must I always feel so hurt

    I never have to ask for heartache I stop to dream and I get heartbreak

    clouds won't keep me from hitting dirt

    Hear all the sights , see all the sounds

    I'll always be frustrated again

    I understand it that you don't understand it and it's weighing heavy on your heart

    What can I tell you that I don't have answers but I guess you knew that from the start


    Music: W. Graber/ S. Macdonald
    Words: S. Macdonald

  • Gonna do myself a favor, quit while I'm behind

    It seems like all this hanging on will only mess up my mind

    And don't have many options at least none I can find

    It always seems so hard to take when what you're weaving unwinds

    Gonna do myself a favor, quit while I'm ahead

    Take some time to lick my wounds and write some music instead

    Take it out of me and purify what's left here in my soul

    Funny how what seems so free can take a very big toll

    Gonna do myself a favor, write it off as lost

    What I have to show from this does not keep up with the cost

    Gonna look around and think about the next step I should take

    Pull it back together the best decision I'll make


    Music: R. Graber
    Words S. Macdonald

  • Think about the earth and the sun and the moon

    Tell me how we should react when they turn into your spittoon

    You'd like to make as much as your age by twenty five

    I'd like to make a lasting impression while I'm still alive

    When you're gone

    Time to take a serious look at what really counts

    I won't judge people by sizes of bank accounts

    It makes no sense when the working is so hard

    Money is money is cash you can't send me a postcard

    When you're gone

    You somehow come you somehow go is there something more you need to know

    No insight love or lasting pain but you know it isn't just some game and all this means

    I know one thing this is this is happiness I guess and all I really know is this

    When you're gone...

    Music: R. Graber
    Words: S. Macdonald

  • If I turn my head the other way won't nobody know better

    If no one has a thing to say nothing will ever upset her

    If I never wear a suit or tie I don't think it will matter

    If I strike out while I'm at the plate they'll forgive me with the very next batter

    [bridge & chorus]

    It seems this thing is killing me and

    I can't find a way out

    Everything that's been done 's been done for ease

    Eliminate possibilities

    I choke myself with my own hand

    I'm drawing circles in the sand

    When my hands are cold and my hair is gray will they ever remember

    When my eyes were bright will it all be December

    When it comes down to my own true thoughts I always think about leaving

    When I run away and I leave the rest who will be doing the grieving

    [bridge & chorus]

    And I don't know what I do this for is it only a living

    And I forget it all when I close the door could it be mine for the giving

    And I try to bring myself around think about something or other

    And my head is down and I hide myself from the eyes of a staring big brother

    [bridge & chorus]

    S. Macdonald

  • I played my cards, I played them badly

    I didn't think she'd move on to better things

    I gave my love, I gave it gladly

    How I hate when you wait in the wings

    She wanted you, she wouldn't tell me

    Told my self that it'd work out this way

    My thoughts of you are quite unhealthy

    Why do I feel like a big shitheel today?

    I hate to lose to a man like you

    after she said that you were no good to me

    I hate to lose to a man like you

    After she said that you were no threat to me

    [repeat above until bored out of skull]

    S. Macdonald

  • [instrumental]

    R. Graber

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    W. Graber

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    W. Graber

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    W. Graber

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    W. Graber

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