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Canada 2

by Paris Street

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1.
She enjoyed my Churchill poems Their imagery, meter, and tone But - to her - the best thing was How she factored in each and every one The story of the northbound train The antics that the cars contained A fourteen hour ride Underneath the stars and northern lights Past the tree line, towards the place Where the wind destroys your face As the ice forms on the bay Earlier in Thompson bars Buying drinks for pool hall stars At 55 degrees The latitude that weakened Gordon's knees Stumbling back to our hotel beds As the lights danced overhead Giving us a complete sense Of our total insignificance And everyone so generous The cab drivers and Thompson drunks Happy to lend a hand to us Red plastic poppies on display Pinned to a nation's chest - they say It's for Remembrance Day Trudging through the ice and snow In boots too big and borrowed clothes Too cold for my Florida bones Past the tree line, towards the place Where the wind destroys your face As the ice forms on the bay Red plastic poppies on display Pinned to a nation's heart - they say It's for Remembrance Day We were bummed out on the last leg Of our flight back to Winnipeg So sad to see the story end Red plastic poppies on display Pinned to a nation's chest - they say It's for Remembrance Day
2.
Here is the time And here is the consequence We're of no mind To act on these things we sense The last night in town The end of our holiday There's so little doubt We can't go on this way But for now Just smile And I Will smile With you Let's find a quiet spot It's starting to rain We can't see the mountaintops A drink and a smoke Dance the rest of the night And still hold out hope Until closing time arrives But for now Just smile And I Will smile With you I feel it, too How happy we both are But sadness is never far Away Here is the time And here is the consequence I'll pretend it's right If you pretend this makes sense Life will go on And we will move on somehow We both know we're wrong But we're too weak to change things now But for now Just smile And I Will smile With you

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The second of two, 2-song EP's based on my travels in Canada. The songs in this EP take place in Vancouver (Sensing Endings) and a large swath of Manitoba (Remembrance Day).

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released November 1, 2011

Written and performed by Carl Polgar.
Cover photo taken in Vancouver on January 2003.

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