1983
Hawksley Workman
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1983 is when things started to make sense got a colour tv just like our grandparents did and we struggled to believe that the general lee wasn't red it was orange instead at sunday school we'd line our winter boots by the heat vent talk about jesus christ and all the things that he said if you're a leper or a beggar or a thief then you're cool with me then and go tell it on the mountain go tell it to the deepest sea go tell it in the 20 cities the 20 cities in galilea everybody's armed with walkmans and batteries she's gotta be the cutest lapsed catholic you ever seen playing fur elise like it's the first time it's ever been played properly and you hated that vic 20 but it was all your folks could afford but you still evangelized the commodore 64 we were both so innocent they hadn't gotten to us yet to see if they could get inside us and rearrange our little heads i could sense mathias rust would be someone i could believe to spill the beans about what really happens on christmas eve all the dads are drinking waiting for the in laws to retreat go tell it on the mountain go tell it to the deepest sea go tell it to your union leader at the risk of sounding bourgeoisie this year everybody's getting a pass for getting drunk and slapping an ass that isn't theirs to want or theirs to give away so we'll blame our ruin on you we're gonna blame our ruin on you we're gonna blame our ruin on you we're gonna blame our ruin on you go tell it on the mountain go tell it to the deepest sea go tell it to your wife and children and every living divorcee' go tell it on the mountain tell it to the deepest sea tell them that you think you heard it on a show on the cbc go tell it to the mountain go tell it to the deepest sea go tell it to every mother you can cool it with the 3rd degree we're just happy sewing sequins to a glove getting ready just to bounce back from all the mistakes that we made and how we squandered everything we ever meant to keep
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