ELECTRIC VERSION

Album by: The New Pornographers

• THE ELECTRIC VERSION

The sound of God is the screech of tires, lights and magnets, bolts and wires, strayed from the road, this very on, Still to come, the sound of tires is the sound of God, the electric versio, The power and blood will pulse through your song, just as long... THE ELECTRIC VERSION lyrics »

• FROM BLOWN SPEAKERS

When the contact high from the real life adventures wear off, you find, in the tiny moments that bomb, your old files rain down from the sk, And would they fall down, like cymbal crashes, would the alarm bell sound? Would your eyelashes keep all this in... FROM BLOWN SPEAKERS lyrics »

• THE LAWS HAVE CHANGED

It was crime at the time but the laws, we changed 'em, though the hero for hire's forever the same on, Introducing for the first time, Pharaoh on the microphon, Sing all hail, what'll be revealed today when we peer into the great unknown, from the line... THE LAWS HAVE CHANGED lyrics »

• THE END OF MEDICINE

The angel cries "you bastard!" as we analyze the accent, so look out, you rock'n'roller, Over forty million served and that's a record for the master, it stood forever afte, So are we, are we, are we, are we facing the end of all, of all the drugs we're... THE END OF MEDICINE lyrics »

• LOOSE TRANSLATION

One holy ghost for a home made girl, in a green T-shirt that read, I quot, What price damnation now? In the school of thought, in the halls of state, with a leap of faith, the loose translation must have lost he, It must have caused her to go back... to... LOOSE TRANSLATION lyrics »

• CHUMP CHANGE

I stole a page from your book and a line from your page, and flew into a lesbian rag, Cursing mine and my own rotten luck, another nude descends a staircase to get fucke, A city scene, darkness falls, now skate hard down the gallery wall, Explore those... CHUMP CHANGE lyrics »

• ALL FOR SWINGING YOU AROUND

Exploding international, the scenes, the sounds, and famously the feeling that you can't squeeze 'round, while tearing off another page of loose change outrag, It's another perfect day until the night show, Exploding international, the wind did how, The... ALL FOR SWINGING YOU AROUND lyrics »

• THE NEW FACE OF ZERO AND ONE

It's the how-to guide to become the new face of zero and on, So fall into the new line, hanging off the truth of the time, Parade of sisters through New York, a trail that, once it began snaking its way through the memory of faking its way through the... THE NEW FACE OF ZERO AND ONE lyrics »

• TESTAMENT TO YOUTH IN VERSE

Should you go lookin' for a testament to youth in verse, variations on the age old curse, you blame the stations when they play you like a fool and like a fool you get played wit, Baby, think twice, maybe it's not all, maybe it's not alrigh, Finally a... TESTAMENT TO YOUTH IN VERSE lyrics »

• ITS ONLY DIVINE RIGHT

Both eyes drinking cool water, not the first daughter so I can't see why you're wrestling with words at last, a tradition you've long outclasse, Come true for the new martyrs, with your hair parted like the Red Se, You're addressing the world from your... ITS ONLY DIVINE RIGHT lyrics »

• BALLAD OF A COMEBACK KID

Pray for content, settle for free rent, the tenements recall Rom, High five, look up, look alive, as the scions of history guess another mystery wron, Recite your lines, and I'll quote scripture, Everything was fine until membership lost its privilege... BALLAD OF A COMEBACK KID lyrics »

• JULY JONES

Come clean through the waves of debri, The mind's eye is first to go, so hang onto that number like gol, And get thee back to the old truth, July Jones, 'cause baby there's a lot we don't kno, One of the greats, on the way, hold o, Behind the daylight... JULY JONES lyrics »

• MISS TEEN WORDPOWER

Our words move aimlessly through empty city squares, collecting into mobs and angry like their prayer, They breathe the air we fought to leave behin, This kind of blank adventure happens all the time, because nobody knows the wreck of the soul the way... MISS TEEN WORDPOWER lyrics »