Civil Twilight

Album: Reunion Tour (2007)
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  • My Confusion Corner commuters
    Are cursing the cold away
    As December tries to dissemble
    The length of their working day
    And they bite their mitts off to show me
    Transfers, deposit change
    And I can't stop finding your face
    In their faces, all rearranged
    And angry like you never were

    And I ease us back into traffic
    Dusk comes on and I wonder
    Why I'm always remembering you
    At civil twilight

    For the most part, I think about golfing and constantly calculate
    All the seconds left in the minutes, and so on, et cetera
    Or recite the names of provinces and Hollywood actors
    Oh, Ontario
    Oh, Jennifer Jason Leigh
    But this part of the day bewilders me

    Streets slow down and ice over
    Dusk comes on and I struggle
    Stop to stop, to stop thinking of you
    In civil twilight

    Hey, every other hour I pass that house
    Where you told me that you had to go
    I wonder if the landlord has fixed the crack
    That I stared at instead of staring back
    At you, my chance to say something
    Seemed so brief, but it wasn't
    Now I know I had plenty of time
    Between the sunset and certified darkness
    Dusk comes on and I follow
    The exhaust from memory up to the end

    Of civil twilight
    At civil twilight
    At civil twilight
    At civil twilight Writer/s: Greg Scott Smith, Jason Tait, John K Samson, Stephen Allan Carroll
    Publisher: CCS Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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