Time’s Arrow
The Weakerthans * Track #7 On Reconstruction Site
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- #2The Reasons
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- #3Reconstruction Site
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- #4Psalm for the Elks Lodge Last Call
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- #5Plea from a Cat Named Virtute
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- #6Our Retired Explorer (Dines with Michel Foucault in Paris, 1961)
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- #7Time’s Arrow
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- #8(Hospital Vespers)
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- #9Uncorrected Proofs
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- #10A New Name for Everything
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- #11One Great City!
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- #12Benediction
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- #13The Prescience of Dawn
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- #14(Past-Due)
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This song is a tribute to the book Time’s Arrow by Martin Amis. In the novel, the events of a man’s life are portrayed in reverse chronological order. Like the book, the lyrics of this song play with the concept of reversed cause and effect.
Time’s Arrow Lyrics
So you watch the sunrise sinking and she's talking in her sleep
A dream of how alone she was tomorrow when you keep
All those promises to someone in a mirror you will find
At your parents' house in 1989
Terrorized
By the ruling party, calendars and commas
Small request
Could we please turn around and around and around?
Turn around
So you whisper your arrival walking backwards to the door
Wonder briefly what it is you're hesitating for
All the streets lie down, deserted in the darkest part of night
To lead you through the evening to the light
Pulled along
In the tender grip of watches and ellipses
Small request
Could we please turn around and around and around?
Turn around
Time’s Arrow Q&A
Who wrote Time’s Arrow's ?
Time’s Arrow was written by John K. Samson.
When did The Weakerthans release Time’s Arrow?
The Weakerthans released Time’s Arrow on Tue Aug 26 2003.