Canada

from A Bottle of Milk in the Eye by (Robert Mathis as) The Human Fly

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Everybody has a Canada
A place to escape to when yours gets rough
Ours is nowhere now
Gotta work with the one we’ve got somehow
Oh my god, what have you done to me?
Oh my god, what have you done to me?

We were robbed every middle of the night
They think the problem is we aren’t polite
Took our house by brick and board
Built it into something that we couldn’t afford
Oh my god, what have you done to me?
Oh my god, what have you done to me?

There’s trouble in the air
In the water, in the air
In the water, I don’t care
We all flicker out some time
We all flicker out some time
We all get hung out to dry
We are laundry of the laundry
Of the people who survive
And we survive because we’re angry,
We don’t flicker out and die
We are never truly dry
Dead leaves that won’t ignite

(I like it, I’m not gonna crack // I love you, I’m not gonna crack // I miss you, I’m not gonna crack // I killed you, I’m not gonna crack)

Hope’s a disease
You can’t catch it if you don’t believe
I’ve been sick for half my life
I catch it every morning when I kiss you goodbye
(But I still think) Oh my god, what have you done to me?
Oh my god, what have you done to me?

Baby, I'll give what you gave me
Shout out to **** (dead name) you saved me
All roads were made for repaving
Windows and people ain't the same thing
Heaven is Earth in the making

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from A Bottle of Milk in the Eye, released October 16, 2020

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5-piece making eclectic alt-folk hailing from Philadelphia and New York. Powered by friendship.

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