Reminiscent of “Anthems for A Seventeen-Year Old Girl,” “Backyards” was actually written and recorded around the same time KC Accidental, Broken Social Scene’s first iteration, was releasing their second album, Anthems for the Could’ve Bin Pills.
[Verse 1]
Broken boys look good sitting on their shoes
Silent waves responds expose to fear
Library cards, rented faces, line up and make a trade
Hard parades with nothing skin
Things that breathe way too thin
[Chorus] [x2]
They lost their lives in backyards
They lost their lives in backyards
[Verse 2]
Elevator, red blue stain, best of things
Half way between things and times, a kill
Library cards, rented faces, line up and make a trade
Highways and major club smell stale, almost eyes, a thousand things
[Chorus] [x2]
[Outro]
It's a hard parade, just be courageous[x4]
It's a hard parade, just
It's a hard parade
It's a hard parade, just be courageous[x6]
Be courageous[x4]
Hard parade just, be courageous[x2]
It's a hard parade just, be courageous[x6]
Backyards was produced by David Newfeld.
Broken Social Scene released Backyards on Wed Mar 24 2004.