Blue Rodeo

[fox69]

"Try"

"Try"


Don't tell me I'm wrong,
'Cause I've been watching every move that you make.
Hearts you steal, in your make up and heels
Trouble for the man that you date.

Every time you walk in the room
I couldn't ever be sure of a smile
You were never the same way twice,
I'm falling in love
Oh, night after night - oh it's crazy...ooh
So many people who said, ooh
Girl you've got nothing but time
Oh you are a shining star
Don't you worry 'bout what you're leaving behind.

Every time you walk in the room
I couldn't ever be sure of a smile
You were never the same way twice,
I'm falling in love
Oh, night after night - oh it's crazy...

Oh you got to try, try, try.
Ah don't you know you've got to try,
Try, try. Oooh
Oh baby you try, oh.

[SOLO]

Every time you walk in the room
I couldn't ever be sure of a smile
You were never the same way twice,
I'm falling in love
Oh, night after night - oh it's crazy...

Oh you got to try, try, try.
Ah don't you know you've got to try,
Try, try. Oooh oh baby you try, oh woah woah try, oh woah woah

I don't know if you've ever seen the movie
Sunset Boulevard but at the beginning of
This movie William Holden is floating-dead-in
A pool and behind him all these flashes are
Going off of the police and news photogra-
Phers and then the voice of this guy who's
Floating in this pool comes over and starts
Telling us about this crazy arrangement he's
Been having with Gloria Swanson, some
Chaffeur named Von Stroheim and a Chim-
Panzee in a white satin coffin but what he's
Really talking about is how we're continually
Being confronted with the possibility of our
Own corruption and how if you're not care-
Ful you can be swallowed up whole by your
Own ambitions. Now in his own life, William
Was a bit of a drinker and one night sittin at
Home after having a couple too many, he
Falls down and hits his head on a coffee
Table...no big deal...so goes to the bath-
Room, gets a towel, puts it to his head and
Stumbles off to bed but he never woke up...he
Was so loaded that he ends up bleeding to
Death, lying there in a pool of his own blood...
HMPH...this song is about that sort
Of feeling...that burnout kinda feeling of
When a bad thing has been going on for too
Long and an act of sympathy makes as much
Sense as putting a towel to your head.

 

[fox69]

"Two Tongues"

"Two Tongues"



If you have the midas touch
Why does everything around here look like rust
And if your house is in such perfect order
Why are your kids running around in rags from second hand counters

Yeah tell me why
Yeah you tell me why
Is it because you got two tongues in one head

You can change your words in mid-direction
You're a freaked out flathead hollow-eyed bad hallucination
Useless prayers from obedient lips
Life's too good in the house of the privileged

Well tell me why
Yeah you tell me why
Is it because you got two tongues in one head
Well tell me why
Yeah you tell me why
Is it because you got two tongues in one head
Is it because you got two tongues in one head
Well tell me why
Yeah you tell me why
Is it because you got two tongues in one head
Is it because you got two tongues in one head

 

[fox69]

"Underground"

"Underground"


There's a way I've been told
If we walk together
Keeps us from this cold.

On the sidewalks of these streets,
Lie the broken dreams
Scattered at our feet...
Lead me on, I don't mind
I'll come forward laughing everytime
All my friends, they've gone underground
Go underground.

There's a shadow on this land
A growing darkness
Cruel and senseless hand.

This block won't be the same
Now the music's there,
But somehow something's changed..
Lead me on, I don't mind
I'll come forward laughing everytime.
All my friends they've gone underground.
I got burned, left too quick
Got myself locked outside the heart of it
All my friends they've gone
Underground, go underground, go underground.

[SOLO]

There's a song that I've heard
Rising up above the streets
Of this crumbling world.

'Bout the sadness in every day
How it leaves and takes
A bit of your faith away...
Lead me on I don't mind
I'll come forward laughing everytime
All my friends they've gone
Underground.
I got burned left too quick
Got myself locked outside the heart of it
All my friends they've gone undergound
Go undergound, go underground.

 

[fox69]

"Up On That Cloud"

"Up On That Cloud"



It’s so easy to fall in love with you
I know I did for a day or two
You never noticed lost in your crowd
Just no room for me up on that cloud

Can’t find no changes
For better in my luck
Empty are my eyes and my heart
Cold grey days
The nights are so long
My heart is sinking
Bound to a stone

This old world is a bag of tricks
A whole lot of nothin’
Where nothin’ ever fits
In all her glory she just don’t compare
To one single tear
In your beautiful eyes

Thank you December
For your cold grey air
Lakes are frozen, trees are bare
I once loved her
Of that I am proud
Just no room for me
Up on that cloud

 

[fox69]

"Venus Rising"

"Venus Rising"



Do you know what you're doing
Now that he's gone you're all alone
Except for the band
Few hundred friends
That paid to attend

Is it because venus is rising
Burnin' a hole in your heart
You're having such a hard time deciding
And you don't know how to stop
The whiskey and applause
Just another way
To get lost
Cause you don't want to remember
When you used to treat him better
When you used to treat him better

If you could learn
How to play that guitar
You sure could go far
Cause when you sing
You sure know how
To break a heart
You sure know how
To break a heart

Is it because venus is rising
Burnin' a hole in your heart
You're havin' such a hard time deciding
You don't know how to stop
The whiskey and applause
Just another way to get lost
Cause you don't want to remember
When you used to treat him better
When you used to treat him better

If you could learn
How to play that guitar
You sure could go far
Cause when you sing
You sure know how
To break a heart
You sure know how
To break a heart

Is it because venus is rising
Burnin' a hole in your heart

 

[fox69]

"Waiting For The World"

"Waiting For The World"



Last night was a triumph
Stayed up all night no one got hurt
Told me what this life is worth
Now didn't you girl

Every day's an endless stream
Of people losing track it seems
But you and I we make our dreams
In different worlds

Well I do know why you'd walk away
But I’m waiting down here anyway

Well I'm waiting for the world to change
Picking up myself again
And I'm falling still I wonder
Just whose stars am I living under now

Tell me about the way you came
To live so high above this game
But you and I we're drawn to flames
Now ain't it true

Well I do know why you'd walk away
But I'm waiting down here anyway

Well I'm waiting for the world to change
Picking up myself again
And I’m falling still I wonder
Just whose spell am I living under
Walking down the road awhile
From starting out to final mile
Falling still I wonder
Just whose stars am I living under now

Well I do know why you'd walk away
But I'm waiting down here anyway

Well I'm waiting for the world to change
Picking up myself again
And I’m falling still I wonder
Just whose spell am I living under
Walking down the road awhile
From starting out to final mile
Falling still I wonder
Just whose stars am I living under now

 

[fox69]

"Walk Like You Don't Mind"

"Walk Like You Don't Mind"



There's a light that shining down on me
Through my window pane
An angel one night came to me
I wish that angel'd come back here again
I wish he'd come back again

When you're walking across the river for the very last time
Leaving all your friends and family far behind
Walk like you don't mind

Someone help me out here please
I ain't seen the sun in days
The rain is pounding down on me
Washing everything I know away
Everything I know away

When you're walking through the darkness and the path is hard to find
A chorus of your enemies is calling to you from the end of time
Walk like you don't mind

Come on down to the river's edge
And look out to the sea
You can curse the heavens all you want
Say Lord, why have you never noticed me?
You never notice me.

But when your time has come for traveling and the hill's too steep to climb
You're looking for some comfort

But it's trouble that you always seem to find
Walk like you don't mind

Walk like you don't mind
Walk like you don't mind
Walk like you don't mind
Walk like you don't mind

 

[fox69]

"Wasted"

"Wasted"



Getting high don't make you happy
Still it's all you ever do
One day the life of the party
Now you haven't a clue
All that was a distant memory
Now you're feelin' so blue
A passing tear still it makes you laugh
As another morning comes too soon
You think you're so smart
You got your plan you've got it all worked out
You can fool your friends but you won't get far
With that broken heart of yours
Forever lettin' you down
You can't explain it
Might as well get wasted

Every day starts with the promise
This'll be the last time
But come the late night with its sorrows
And you feel like gettin' high
When all the world seems so far away
And you don't care why
Precious sleep is all you really need
But you just can't close your eyes
You got so much love to give
But now it's all just slippin' away
Can't take yourself for another day
With that broken heart of yours
Forever lettin' you down
You can't explain it
Might as well get wasted

You think you're so smart
You got your plan you got it all worked out
You can fool your friends but you won't get far
With that broken heart of yours
Forever lettin' you down

 

[fox69]

"Western Skies"

"Western Skies"



Well I'd rather be
walking through the tall pine trees high
up above Lake Louise
And I'd rather be
chasing after shooting stars
than waiting for this dumb 503 TTC
I'd like to see
the sun set behind Saddle Mountain
and listen to the wind whisper my name
yea this world and me don't fit
one of us is going to have to quit
oh how I miss those western skies
And I'd rather be back in the Rocky Mountains
than sitting in some bar on Queen Street
And I'd rather be walking through the high meadow
than watching the latest war on my TV
So please don't you stand in my way
I just got to get out of this place
if I waste another day
I'm sure the sun will forget my name
Oh how I miss those western skies
oh to see the sunset in her eyes
oh to see the sunshine in her eyes
And I'd rather be
lying by the Bow River
just watching the clouds go by
Yea I'd rather be
anywhere else than here tonight
than stuck in the city
but through the pain
good things will come
after the rain the sun
but that don't mean much to me stuck in the city
oh how I miss those western skies

 

[fox69]

"What a Surprise"

"What a Surprise"



If you ever change your mind
About living the better life
You get so sick of yourself
And all the things that your money can buy
And yes it's hard
So very hard to admit
Just how pointless it all is

But what a surprise you finally arrived

I still remember
The anger in your words
I think I liked you better
When you had something to prove
Still it's hard
So very hard to admit
Just how pointless it all is

What a surprise you finally arrived
What a surprise you finally arrived
What a surprise you finally arrived

Then you go and lose the spell
And every trace of your self

If you ever change your mind
About living the better life
You get so sick of yourself
And all the things that your money can buy
And yes it's hard
Very hard to admit
Just how pointless it all is

What a surprise you finally arrived
What a surprise you finally arrived
What a surprise you finally arrived
What a surprise you finally arrived
What a surprise you finally arrived
What a surprise you finally arrived

Then you go and lose the spell and every trace of yourself