The Weakerthans
The Weakerthans
The Weakerthans
The Weakerthans
The Weakerthans
The Weakerthans
The Weakerthans
The Weakerthans
The Weakerthans
The Weakerthans
The Weakerthans
The Weakerthans
The Weakerthans
The Weakerthans
This song, along with its sister songs (Hospital Vespers) and (Past-Due), is written in Shakespearean sonnet form, with fourteen lines in iambic pentameter.
It’s also worth noting that the trilogy is narratively connected, following a cancer sufferer and his friend/implied lover as they deal with t...
I want to call requests through heating vents
And hear them answered with a whisper, ”No”
To crack the code of muscles, slacken, tense
Let every second step in boots on snow
Complete your name with accents I can’t place
That stumble where the syllables combine
Take depositions from a stranger’s face
Paint every insignificance a sign
So tell me nothing matters, less or more
Say ”Whatever we think actions are
We'll never know what anything was for
If near is just as far away as far”
And I’m permitted one act I can save
I choose to sit here next to you and wave
(Manifest) was written by John K. Samson.
(Manifest) was produced by Ian Blurton.
The Weakerthans released (Manifest) on Tue Aug 26 2003.