Little Songs

Release Date: 1998

Where to Buy:

iTunes – Canada | UK

Label: EMI Music Canada
Producers: Paul Northfield; David Usher; Byron Wong (Trickster, Million)

Track Listing (Click song titles to show/hide song lyrics):

Trickster

im the trickster burn so brightly
i still hate you motherfuckers everyone
wrapped in glory bound so tightly
i still crave you even when im overcome
saved by the light let me go on let me go bright
to be saved by the light let me go on let me go bright

im the trickster burned so badly
i still hate you motherfuckers everyone
wore my sickness so politely
i cant be your everything to everyone
void of meaning swelled just slightly
i still need you i still need you
gone forever so concisely
i still need you i still need you

saved by the light let me go on let me go bright
to be saved by the light let me go on let me go bright

and if you hate the world
lets say ive been there
and if you hate yourself
well dont go changing
all the times i used your body done my way cant say im sorry
ripped the gloss off all your memories consequences so demanding
bruised and beaten conscience bleeding sexually

saved by the light let me go on let me go bright
to be saved by the light let me go on let me go bright

David Usher: Acoustic guitars
Kevin Young: Keys
Pascale Couloumbe: Backing vocals
Julia Galios: Backing vocals
Jonathan Gallivan: Electric guitars
St. Lawrence River

smells on the air see there its crushing the final impression
the stains on the paper
where words fell like water unearth all the changes that never did matter
i think its beginning to freeze here

caught in the rage and the fire of things all the brightness that burns me
im fumbling through like a child in the dark when the nakedness comes
i am shocked by the colour
the glorious weight of your skin
comes alive
and i never thought wed make it back so soon
might be nice but i knew youd be your own destroyer
comes a time
and i always thought id make it up to you

here please forgive me how could we escape all the bitterness piled upon bitterness
held in the face of the things that i dont understand intellectualize over and over
this helplessness suits us its funny how quiet has slipped to our corners
worn all our edges away you are watching breathing and baiting
wanting and warming and cautiously waiting for some simple signal to creep cross your conscience
uncover redemption and oh did i mention i carried you down to the st lawrence river
the banks running dirty the waters beginning to freeze here
solid by morning and ill freeze here
winter by morning

comes a lie
and i never thought youd get me back so soon
might be nice but its only if my own destroyer
comes alive
and i always knew id make it up to you

i saw on your face such a curious grin as i let go your hand i was desperate to hold you again
but youre sinking so deep in the water outsmarted myself and so easily gave up what i wanted
solid by morning
what i wanted
winter by morning

comes alive
and i never thought youd make it up so soon
might be nice but i always knew youre my destroyer
comes a time
and i always thought id make it up to you

solid by morning
and ill freeze here
winter by morning

David Usher: Vocals, guitar
Jeff Smallwood: Guitar
Jeff Pearce: Bass
Kevin Young: Hammond organ
Paul Wilcox: Djembe
Jeff Fong: Trumpet
Jesus Was My Girl

so he dies and im the joke
a playdoh mask a million miles to go
a suped up cock tease with a little twist
when sex got ugly id insist
hear youll empty all ive got
fuckings over but i cant stop cumming
still born dead or never born at all

when jesus was my girl
she told me
when jesus was my girl

its impossible for me
harder even if i turn it over
im not as pretty as i thought id be
another symptom of my damn disease
hear youve taken all i got
fuckings over but i just keep cumming
still born dead and never born at all

when jesus was my girl
she told me
when jesus was my girl

im not as pretty as i thought id be
another symptom of my damn disease

David Usher: Vocals, guitar
Kevin Young: Moog, trumpet
Jeff Pearce: Bass
Unholy, Dirty and Beautiful

bound by the time on the clock
bittersweet wondering the quiet transfusion
hold tight nothing is complicated
hold tight everythings fine
confidence fell through the hole in your pocket
the simples illogical so it be logic
im caught in the diaries with all your complaining
the curious scribblings of one who has everything

leave me unholy and dirty and beautiful be
unholy and dirty and beautiful

cherish the lies that you bought
charming delusions gone crack in the fire
i know we might be mediocre
i know nothings on fire
confidence fell through the hole in your pocket
the simples illogical so it be logic
im caught in the diaries with all your complaining
the curious scribblings of one who has everything

leave me unholy and dirty and beautiful be
unholy and dirty and beautiful

David Usher: Vocals, guitar
Claude Lamothe: Cello
Kevin Young: Backing vocals
Forestfire

what if i were you and you were me
still cant see the forest fire beyond the trees
now im standing in a field of green the colours burning far as i can see
what do you see

on my tongue the galaxies so small
here ill drink it down and watch the world dissolve
now im pouring through the universe and slipping through the endless stream of time
what would you find

and im flying floating on the wind again
hoping it will drag me in
cant you see im laughing laughing at the consequence
laughing at this circumstance
dont you know by now

wave at all the faces theyve gone by
faster that we live the more we die
now im crashing through the open door and smiling
in a most peculiar way
what would you say

and im falling faster than the waterfall
opened up and after all
cant you see im drowning right here in the open air
wishing i could still go clear
dont you know by now
this is what we are

flying floating on the wind again
im wishing that youd drag me in
cant you see im hoping wishing i could see myself
wishing i was someone else
but don’t you know by now
don’t you know by now
this is what we are

David Usher: Vocals, acoustic guitar
Kevin Young: Wurlitzer
Paul Wilcox: Bass
Mark Makoway: Wah guitar
Babyskin Tattoo

i am just the gray one im the darker side of you
and theres a place you left inside me
i hope it will amuse
and see this sign carved in my arm
just means ill hate you all forever
its my babyskin tattoo
its all the brand name that youve left

its not so far from me to you

circumcised myself because i knew youd be too busy
and i saw the knife was dull
just why the fuck do you think im crying
styes caught in my eye
and it swells me ’til im numbing
but ill leave it here to punish you
for leaving me so hard

it’s not so far from me to you

i deliver i will receive all the blessings from these things given
tested longer held back only here

i am just the gray one im the darker side of you
and theres a space you left inside me
i hope it will amuse
and see this sign carved in my arm
just means ill hate you all forever
its my babyskin tattoo
its all the brand name that youve left me

and i beg borrow prostrate here under cover of everything made dear
fearing only fearing only you

David Usher: Vocals
Jeff Smallwood: Guitar
Paul Northfield: Moog bass
F Train

traveled on the f train down
the people press and crowd
they start to fade like footprints worn away
only stop and still im waiting
a thousand faces look the same everyone
a thousand different names
they come on two by two
people fade as people do
came here of my own volition
could be my decision
could be
we may still get by
we may still get by

wandered down on avenue a
the coffee shops the sweet cache
of thoughts and words and laughter gone
never ending stream of what youve
known so long and long ignored
dont think so hard just smoke your cigarette
and fade off into blue
cause people fade as people always do

consequence comes crashing in
the scars and scrapes and scratches
all the memories died so long ago
time is up but still im waiting
came here of my own volition
could be my decision
could be
we may still get by
we may still get by

David Usher: Vocals, guitar
Kevin Young: Wurlitzer
Million

borrowed in black you are mine
dont make it easy dont make it hard
dont make it so so simple again
so so easy again
bound like a child you are mine
i cant defend you
i wont complain
i wont go so so quiet again
go so gently again

a million a million more
for you to burn

promised your mother id write
id kill you quickly
id keep you calm
id make it all so simple again
all so quiet
here once the morning was bright
but violence changes changes the light
and now ive grown so empty again
grown so empty again

a million a million more
for you to burn

i can be cold dear i can be cold as you wanted
living is hard here
when im just the whore that you wanted me to be

a million a million more
for you to burn

David Usher: Vocals
Jeff Smallwood: Guitar
Kevin Young: Mellotron, backing vocals
Final Thoughts and the Last Day On Earth

heaven haunts me kill for a cigarette
heaven is all that i got
my god left me without one word of warning
my god left me waiting is all that i got

ive seen your face before
ive seen your anger crashing down
all my life ive seen your babies
crashing to the ground

needle brought me comfort to keep me stable
comfort paid for
comfort is all that i got

my god left me without one word of warning
my god left me
my god is all that i got

ive seen your face before
ive seen your anger crashing down
all my life ive seen your anger
crashing to the ground

dont be afraid
were all afraid

David Usher: Vocals
Jeff Smallwood: Guitar
Kevin Young: Hammond organ, backing vocals
Mood Song

im so dead and angry
im justified to feel this way
im broken in pieces
the only game i would not play
and you might be angry
and you might have the last laugh say
and you might be waiting
well thats your choice so take it all the way
i dont want you anymore
your way
i don’t want you anymore

im broken in pieces
and you might never know the way
the kitchen is easy
and i wont be the first to say
and i might be over
and i might be the last to awaken
weakened and broken
but i dont care if you said
moments easier
moments easier
moments easier to find

and you might be angry
and you might be the last to take me
you might be over
but dont tell me that i cant be defined

David Usher: Vocals, instruments

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