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We climbed to play
02:49
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Down on plymouth grove
Down on plymouth grove
Down on Plymouth Grove the old west end
Up the chain link fence
Up the chain link fence
Up the chain link fence we climbed to play
Then the machines came
Wrecking ball and chains
Out on St. Antoine we stood to watch
Baldy’s closed their doors
Shut up angel hordes
Cried that their old homes were coming down today
The hockey game was stopped
Look up at the clock
Up the chain link fence we climbed to watch
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2. |
Shivering in topcoats
02:11
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Milk man splendidly white in black shoes
Traipses up concrete stairs
Father already reading the news
Laughing at silver bars
Drapeau in his motor car
Selects sites deemed lootable, lootable
I built a paper plane out of glue
And discarded egg crates
Took it out to the street and it flew
Over a black coach car
Moses Men invited up
Drank deep from their coffee cups, coffee cups
Shivering in topcoats
Men surveyed telescopes
Crowded caved and bleeding
Laughing talking singing
Dicing onions kitchen
Running errands behind
Sun is shining, belies
Neighborhood paradise
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3. |
Trilateration tide
01:52
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Backshore boundary monument cadastral map
Countour longitude and orthophotograph
Neatline overedge trilateration tide
Spheroid section subsidence quadrangle scale
Rectification mean high water line
Rectification a planimetric photograph
A topographic tide
Land use hypsometric isopleth series
Engineer a magnetic and leveling
Latitude isogonic hypsographic line
Graticule geodesic estuary curve
Rectification mean high water line
Rectification a planimetric photograph
A topographic tide
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4. |
Everyday, anyday
01:50
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Everyday through the window I see Mrs. Nadeau weed
Everyday when the train goes by the windows rattle
Everyday, everyday, everyday it stays the same
In between Canning Street and Gaudry Avenue there is
Mr. Naughton in his little house up against the
Railroad tracks, railroad tracks, railroad tracks on plymouth grove
Mme. Belanger heard that men in black were coming round
Checking benchmarks and declinations, a first station
Any day, any day, any day we’ll be put out
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Modern campaign
03:56
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Got letter city stamp old hat
Tore it open decrease buzz half-dream
Out by sunday 65 in June
Howling north winds increase muttered loom
Been kicked out
Squeezed in drought
mMonuments
Whispered loud
Ville-Marie
Coming through
Rustle leaves his teeth were clenched in air
Modern campaign highway handed heir
Dominate the working classes fair
Big interests a Drapeau plan feel prayer
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The McGowan’s left tonight
Shuddered plumb and buzzing truck
Brick by brick the wall tipped down
Cascades scrollwork without fight
Mortar labored absurd task
Noises crazy spreading fast
Dust will settle into cracks
Darken eyes like river glass
Trunks of heirlooms basement flack
Spreading memories askance
Withered walls and paper wreck
St. Anthony steamboat flecked with paint
Every bump shakes ground
Rising mystical
Sits an old man with a hat and tumor six years old
He shakes his head and wonders out loud what happened to penny Mournful darkness wilderness in oxcart days
How much better is the dirt
Than 50 familys cold meals?
Rotting poor lost plodded sad
Streetlamps torn from concrete feet
Tearing hearts from beating chests
Cities struggle with the mess
Cold grey pillars laid in wood
Strike towards the common arms
Elevated hardened steel
Driven up to meet the cloud
And in time the cars will ply
Asphalt smog induce demand and grime
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7. |
Authenticity, gone
02:49
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In and out in and out side
Down and out down and out slide
In and out in and out side
Down and out down and out slide
All ran to see
Destruction of means
Up and down up and down town
Shop and home shop and home crown
Up and down up and down town
All ran to see
Our homes, shops and trees
The authenticity
Gone
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Take me down to St. Remi and leave me there
Hands skid over milky white cobble stair
In lofts we will expand our artistic lives
Private, a militia of anxious eyes
Dead tired, eyes are red
Beau Soir, grab a six pack fight meager plows
Ruffled, sharp and brisk no time to go out
Winter, suck a beatle warm contractor
He came to warn of a plan to move us all
Dead tired eyes are red
Tired, go to bed
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9. |
Zenith riser
01:52
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Chain arpent square
Ground furlong link
League aliquot
Pole Rathbone’s Chain perch
Azimuth corner and mete open
Line monument condition bearing
Plot tangent line township strip traverse
Zenith riser witness tree
Bullseye
Burn one and blue topping cut line a
Spike
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10. |
Conversation death
01:50
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Get up brush my teeth
Get up brush my teeth and comb my hair
Heat a frying pan
Heat a frying pan and crack an egg
A day, a day, a day beginning
Conversation death
Conversation dead and gone away
Protest Notre Dame
Protest Notre Dame futile decay
Expro, expro, expro-priation
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11. |
Thunderclouds separated
03:56
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When she got home a letter waited there
Outside food sizzled warm it’s dinner time
Children recklessly kick at dirty cans
Thunderclouds separated brass hat chimes
Getting kicked out
St. Remi’s gone
Getting kicked out
She walked in and sat at a kitchen chair
Ran her fingers to shots and through her hair
Dropped beside her a used up canvas bag
Getting kicked out
St. Remi’s gone
Getting kicked out
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Red brick lofts a bony skull
Notice streetlamp characters
Watching metal turn to dust
Homes and business drawn as slums
Every day brick mortar shrapnel rend
Every day homes disappear in whipped dense air
Tumble to the grass below
Total decay telephone
Future manuals written
Corruption planning will win
Every day brick mortar shrapnel rend
Long thickets of lives are torn by trend
Highway building ends a city’s life
Every day homes disappear in whipped dense air
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