Lyrics
No Good
She calls it 'The Friday Night Surprise'
and it catches fun-greedy eyes
as they walk home, mom and son and rented movie.
And it's been three months so far
that the Loonies in the Swearing Jar
have kept these Friday nights a week’s reward.
And it’s alright
and it’s no good,
and 'it’s just a little while we’ll stay.'
And for $420. a month:
shared bathroom, fridge two floors above,
two beds, two chairs, two of every other creeping thing.
And no visitors after 11,
no Covenant blessed by a misty Heaven;
its all dumb hope and a little water damage.
And it’s alright
and it’s no good,
and 'it’s just a little while we’ll stay.'
And we’ll stay another day
another we'll stay
another 'coulda done somethin' better than this'
as I feed the hungry dove out on the window ledge.
And in our hearts we’ll feign to know no lonely fear
and we’ll stay.
Doric Temple façade on a tuft of front yard,
the architect long ago died a naked drunk.
And before Fred Gardiner’s highway
we sat up over a lake and the
water was our chapel and kind God.
But now the garbage of a century
sandbags trenches ‘tween home and street
down Queen, past Strachan,
all the way down to Roncesvalles.
And it’s alright
and it’s no good,
and 'it’s just a little while we’ll stay.'
And it’s alright
and it’s no good,
and 'it’s just a little while we’ll stay.'
Another dollar store toy
drags another mom and boy
home under the Flood of Parkdale's red setting sun.
