Name: Fun for the Thoughtful
Duration: P00H03M18S
Description: Single 1

Fun for the Thoughtful

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i’ve paid my dues to the city.
i’ve strayed in vagabond boots.
see an idle heart is prone to pity,
it hasn’t the right things to do.
half the time we’re almost all lying.
leaving truths to bathroom stalls.
we blame our moons for our swelling tides.
while our bridges burn themselves.
everybody’s bathed in light in the morning.
everybody’s blanket is night as it falls.
your loneliness loves that you think it ain’t showing.
but i could be wrong. so i guess that’s all.
i worried about my mother. when my father’s time was up.
she said “everybody, boy, has lost somebody,
what’s so goddamn special about us”.
my sister she is one of the good ones.
she had her baby in the fall.
we all got this sink full of calls to
make, but we don’t gotta make em all.
there’s always some heart worth chasing.
there is always some guilt to shake.
we make up, make do, or just make out,
like there is anything else to make.
so here is one more song low and chockful.
of thoughts that i’d be fine without.
see cause what seems fun for the thoughtful,
is not all that fun just to think about.

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released April 26, 2019
Words and music and guitar: Benjamin Doerksen
Vocals: Tom Schiks, Rose Brokenshire, Julie Neff
Banjo: Tom Schiks
Bass: Evan McCosham
Drums: Cam MacDonald
Keys and Organ and Synth: Paddy Horrigan
Fiddle: David Poulin

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