• Song:

    Vancouver Divorce

  • Artist:

    Gordon Downie

  • Album:

    Coke Machine Glow

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SONG: Vancouver Divorce
BAND: Gordon Downie
ALBUM: Coke Machine Glow (2001)
TABBED BY: Ross Guertin (ross_guertin@yahoo.ca)
TUNING: EADGBe


D (xx0232@1)              GWhat (320003@1)the hell is this?
                                  DYou (xx0232@1)said, "It's art, just fucking mirror it."
                GWhere (320003@1)did we go wrong?
                   AIf (x02220@1)not here, where do we belong?
                                      GIn (320003@1)a shot of sun off an airplane far above her?
                                         AIn (x02220@1)the glint of a foot-burnished manhole cover?
                                   GIn (320003@1)a light, a sign of one kind or another?
                                      DIn (xx0232@1)the gleaming eye of a fighter or a lover?
                    GSitting (320003@1)here at the Hortons,
                    A (x02220@1)  Dso (xx0232@1)you know this is important.
                  GIf (320003@1)not here, then where?
                 AIf (x02220@1)not now, then when?
                              GWhen (320003@1)a feather's an immovable force?
                                AWhen (x02220@1)the stampede's an obstacle course?
                                         GWhen (320003@1)Ancient Train has hit Ol' Transient Horse?
                         DWhen (xx0232@1)we're a Vancouver divorce?

Now that we've hammered the last spike
and we've punched the railroad through,
thought there'd be more to say,
thought there'd be more to do.
I love your paintings -- don't take your colours away.
I've grown more fearful of them every day.
Swimming up their dark rivers to discover your source,
a source of strange and unrequited remorse.
And I found the end of the world, of course,
but it's not the end of the world, of course.
It's just a Vancouver divorce.
It's just a Vancouver divorce.

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