PLAYIN’ HOUSE Apartment seventy-seven, top floor the best rooftop terrace in town our cat Merri up on the ledge way too much sugar in that coffee painted the wall lavender behind the bed with ragged sheets steak + eggs in the morning fried chicken rice in the evening Remember ? you've got a selective memory choose to forget what you did to me remember only my flaws you forgot how sweet i was to you Trap House my ass, seriously ? you had your very own set of keys front door & apartment, i never forbade you from going anywhere i encouraged you to see your two only friends you came and went as you damn well pleased you took 4 baths every day while i fixed you home-made hot chocolate we played Organ Trail & Papers, Please maple syrup at every meal champagne & fireworks getting soaked at the Foo Fighters concert wifi on the ferry back & forth Mad Max in french and laughing at Donald Trump speeches so stop playing fucking victim trying to make me look bad, really ? i’m not the monster you’re painting me to be i just got fucking fed up with a man acting as a retarded teen !! if your stay here was so bad why didnt you leave the key ? why do you still have it with you ? did you wanna keep it as a souvenir ?

SPARE KEY Some day you’ll be back ‘ round these parts, I know I know… There’s only so many places in the world to go I know… Some day you’ll be back ‘round these parts, I know Some day you’ll be back knocking on my door even though you’re swearing never, no more Some day you’ll be back knocking on my door I know there’s something missing to our story an unwritten chapter that is still to come, you'll see and when this day comes I could be a bitch and say get your damn shit and turn the fuck away yeah i could just be a bitch and say but you know what yeah, you know what…. you know what i'll probably say.... Some day you’ll be back ‘round these parts, I know Some day you’ll be back knocking on my door so just keep the fucking key to my front door you’re gonna need it some day, I know….

(Small Kids) BIG WORDS small kids using Big Words that’s what you are: small small kids using big big words that you dont understand give this song a thought once in a while i’ve seen a few more sunsets than you have this aint fuckin’ bullshit i’m laying down but some sound advice you’d be wise to heed you aint better than me you think you know it all you think you’ve seen it all ? you think you’ve have a hard life ? you need a slap in the face just to get your head out of your ass wake up wake up wake up wake up from your drug-induced coma and self-inflicted trauma you say i construct realities upon the past when i’m actually building the future you dont make a house wihtout a foundation that’s what past & identity are for, morons castles dont hold in the sky on cannabis smoke you aint gonna look good much longer , you’re about to run out of luck what are you gonna do without free rent and women to pay for your every need ? do you really think you got what it takes to survive on the street ? you cant even drink a coffee without vanilla in it you complain that your bathwater isnt the right temperature you’re a fucking spoiled child playing at slumming it up at other’s expenses and when you run out of money you call your mommy for help you talk about archetypes and roles dont you realize how fuckin’ brainwashed you are ?? you call yourself a free spirit and an anarchist yet you’re the most judgemental person i have ever met ! so please get yourself a Dictionary to learn the veritable meaning of all those big words that you use and misuse without even being aware spin your tongue 7 times in your mouth before you speak this way your life might seem a bit less bleak i say this firmly but i say it with love i have tried talking to you guys with velvet gloves brutal honestly, she didnt believe me,i know you did so remember this letter i’m writing you in the form of a song it may come handy some rainy day you dont know what half the words you use really mean you just like to hear yourselves say them, has a nice ring Midtown Scum, analyse this name carefully fucking hipster band name trying to downplay it using false self-deprecation, tryna look cool cuz you feel lame do you really think people cant see through it ? so get over yourselves and take a deep breath bunch of teenage kids tryna play it tough in your rough town where your gang gonna beat me up if i show up got news for you memphis is still a public place where anyone can go especially good-looking canadian girls (( ha ha ha ! ) if you’d open up a bit and stopped being so haughty maybe you’d look less stupid maybe you’d be more happy i always liked the core of you but your attitude right now is shitty & repulsive so stop acting like you’re the end of the world without the suit & banjo you’re nothing special under the blue-green hair is an immature brain under the ink & piercings we’re all the same wake up ! so take a look in the mirror and realize your stupid grand dogmas are a bunch of lies i’ve never seen someone as judgemental as you violent thoughts masked under fake peace & love, YOU cant you see you’re just a bunch of hipsters you’re not even punks, because punks are not haters you’re not bums either because even bums respect others you’re not even scum you’re something even lower !! so stop slamming others to try and get up hitting on the ones who loved you the most not doing a thing to try and get out of the shithole you put yourself in cuz if you made your life better, what would you complain about then? you tell me your friends got shot again it gives you a chill down your spine to say that the self-pity you display is quite pathetic you boast about living in a crime-infested city why are you proud to boast about this ?? what are you doing to improve your community ?? are you trying to look tough compared to me ? toughness has nothing to do with the number of bullets & thugs you encounter toughness is a strenght interior it’s gotta do with how you deal with stuff every day and let me tell you in this area i’m a lot tougher than all of you put together you had to gang up on me to call me a monster a thousand miles away on the internet but if i was there in person you would shit your pants in my face you got no courage, tough guys, face it you’re good for a clever debate on FaceBook but when it comes down to showing up, you call out forfeit you called me a privileged person you say that i am sheltered let me tell you what’s privileged, billionnaires like Donald Trump not someone like me who had the willpower to save up her money to pay for a fucking train ticket not a girl who spent evenings working from home to feed us both while you played videogames let me tell you what's sheltered, it’s people like arab sheikhs, that have so many billions, you will never know their name how dare you compared these people to a simple girl like me ? this only fact shows how imbalanced and idiotic you are you dont even know what privilege is you are too stupid to realize you are privileged yourself you dont work in a factory like a kid in India you can afford the luxury to hitchhike and eat free meals all over North America you’r e on fucking Disability doing nothing cashing your checks and you complain about the government so why dont You get a fucking job no, let your girlfriend earn your keep that is really very manly so shut the fuck up YOU privileged kid you dont even appreciate the graces you receive ! so fucking cut the crap and treat me with respect this aint fucking privilege all i got i have earned ! you fucking little wimp you couldnt get even a single gig during the whole time that you lived here despite the fact i gave you 27 places on a list so shut the hell up you pricks & Bipsters including your minions & followers, you so like playing guru you drop carelessly, "people say I have a messianic quality" yeah you fooled them good with your pretty face & your straight dick what are you gonna do when your beauty runs out and they see through your gimmicks? so yeah Bip Jeffers get off your high horse and take a real, honest look at yourself take a good long look at yourself before you pass judgement on Me I came offering peace apologies & friendship all i got in return was a fistfull of shit and spit so get over yourself, baby girls who think you’re some kind of avenging angels if you guys were so smart you’d already know all that without me having to spell it out so believe me, handsome children you still got a long way to go before you can call yourself men so please get yourselves a fucking dictionary so you can communicate more accurately

My name aint Delia and I aint gone I aint gone no fuckin’ where I’m staying glued right up there in a dark corner of your heart, baby she might have a vag-i-na but she aint got my stam-i-na she aint gonna be here in 10 years guess you’re too stoned to see that far, darling SLAM : (( n’en déplaise à Miss Aidan ….. J’étais là avant elle Je serai là après elle je resterai logée comme une flèche fichée dans ton pauvre coeur de hobo comme une ecchymose sur ton coeur de bum c’est un fait acquis qui ne peut être démenti ça tombe sous le sens c’est une évidence ce n’est qu’une question de temps)) No my name aint Delia and I aint gone I aint gone no fuckin’ where My name is Iza and I’m staying right there in that dark corner of your heart, honey

Put on my red cowboy boots and I boarded a train touched down in a Falling Rock Neighbourhood in the middle of the pouring rain Capitaine Bernier wont you look down over me yeah I got a first class ticket but I'm as blue as a girl can be Then I'm walking in Lévis walking with my feet ten feet off of St-Laurent Walking in Lévis but do I really feel the way I feel ? Saw Marcel Aubin on that ferry boat followed him up to the Galeries Chagnon and I watched him walk right through now security they did not see him they just hover 'round his accordion there's a nice baloney sandwich waiting for him in the food court Then I'm walking in Lévis walking with my feet ten feet off of St-Laurent Walkin' in Lévis but do I really feel the way I feel ? They've got poutine on the table They've got seagulls in the air Ste-Jeanne-d'Arc be glad to see you when you havent got a prayer you got a prayer in Lévis and Marcel plays piano every Tuesday at Café Mosaïque and they brought me down to see him and they asked me if I would do a little number and I sang with all my might they said "Girl, are you a Lévisienne?" and I said "Man, I am tonight !" Walkin' in Lévis walking with my feet ten feet off of St-Laurent Walkin' in Lévis but do I really feel the way I feel ? Walkin' in Lévis walking with my feet ten feet off of St-Laurent Walkin' in Lévis but do I really feel the way I feel ? Put on my red cowboy boots and I boarded a train touched down in a Falling Rock Neighbourhood in the middle of the pouring rain touched down in a Falling Rock Neighbourhood in the middle of the pouring rain

I’m gonna break the Law in tiny little pieces I’m gonna put it in an envelope and mail it right back to you so take all your nonsense and your argumentation i have no interest in debates and opinions i want to know how you Feel how do you Feel ? if you wanna play that blame game we could play ‹ til the end of time whatever i say, your reply’s always the same al least, amnesiacs forgive in time there’s a Law that’s not written in any civil code book still that Law will always prevail over any of your rules it is the law of our rushing blood the beat of an unstoppable drum the currents that make every river flow it’s the Law of the Heart so why dont we just jump the fence ? let’s ring that fire alarm let’s pretend you never left let’s pretend none of this happened let’s bring out the fireworks let’s pop that fucking champagne let’s remember who we were i remember

maybe getting groceries didnt entitle me to a smile maybe rubbing your back didnt entitle me to sex maybe paying the rent didnt entitle me to your respect but i thought i was at least Entitled to your Love i thought i was at least Entitled to your Love maybe fixing your coffee didnt entitle me to your affection maybe letting you do your thing didnt entitle me to your loyalty maybe listening to you didnt entitle me to your tenderness but i thought i was at least Entitled to your Love i thought i was at least Entitled to your Love maybe paying for your weed didnt entitle me to a hug and maybe getting your pants repaired didnt entitle me to even a Thank You maybe putting up with your friends didnt entitle me to more time with you but i thought i was at least Entitled to your Love i thought i was at least Entitled to your Love there’s more to life than just survive i thought you too wanted to thrive….. guess that was too much for you i thought we wanted the same things guess i was wrong all that time…… but i thought i was at least Entitled to your Love i thought i was at least Entitled to your Love just because i was me just because i loved you i thought i was special to you i thought at least i was entitled to your love……

June Carter’s still waiting for Johnny drunk in some saloon in Tennessee well I aint got that patience baby I’m done being Penelope I wanna be Ulysses standing on the deck when the ship leaves dock making of my life an adventure and have a girl in every port I’m gonna be the one who leaves I aint waitin’ on anyone I aint the one cryin’ and achin’ I’m the one who’s takin’ off yeah I wanted be Ulysses and have a girl in every port but the first time i took to sea was the time i hit the jackpot two days after my ship set sail i heard a siren’s wail at large i stepped too far upon the deck fell to sea to never come back (un homme à la mer ! ) I wanted be Ulysses and have a girl in every port but you know me, when i met her all the others i soon forgot she is a siren, mystery & charm but behind the smoke is something real i’m under her spell. i cant stay at bay she is my anchor,and i will not stray now i have become Ulysses with a Penelope to call my own but contrary to the one of legend I’ll be home a lot more often…….

All my past relationships were like Cut Flowers Instant, Beautiful, easy, cheap, Perfect but now I want something that will last Forever not the kind of thing you can buy on a street corner Cuz it dont matter how many aspirins you drop in the vase Cut Flowers die after a couple days doomed from the start, I’m changing my order Cuz Potted Plants , they last Forever sure they require time and they require care they require patience… but they last Forever and you gotta give them space and you gotta give her time and you gotta understand but this is gonna last Forever….. Cuz it dont matter how many aspirins you drop in the vase Cut Flowers die after a couple days see those red roses are already fading over but Potted Plants , they last Forever a young student in Landscape design gave me a lesson in love and life i thought my Cut Flowers were the top of the line to impress someone who knew much more than i about flowers and plants because flowers and plants are a lot like me & you They have a heart too ! No it dont matter how many aspirins you drop in the vase Cut Flowers die after a couple days so dont bother with those chrysanthemums on the corner Cuz Potted Plants , they last Forever

when we met, i loved you it was love at first sight though, i didnt know you quite the oversight ( but love is blind…. ) when we got together thought it was forever while we walked arm in arm i thought, « 3rd time’s the charm » ( boy was i wrong….. ) girl, you took a long time coming and i’m never letting you go when our love imploded was the end of the world i thought i was dying while you were out fucking i mustve cried all the tears a human being can cry over you i sincerely did all that was humanly possible to keep you there is nothing than can touch a heart of stone just didnt think You had one… . ( musical break of some sort ) and it was hard as hell but boy i’m glad you’re gone an honest heart cant suffer for ever there’s a justice to life and all is fair in Love and War so take that i have met a siren i have met a little deer i have met a little seahorse i have met a forest elf and she’s much nicer than you she’s much softer than you she’s much more gracious than you she’s so much better than you she’s more caring than you so much sweeter than you she’s much prettier than you she’s so much better than you in every way she’s so patient never violent she talks to me in ways you could never aspire to she’s much smarter than you so much simpler than you she’s a thousand times you she’s so much better than you this little boy is the woman of my dreams something beyond your comprehension so thank you for leaving me thank you for not coming back i thank you for loving me but boy, it was nothing compared to THAT this girl is the man of my dreams he’s helped me become the best version of me and i’m ten feet taller now because of her something way beyond your grasp so thank you for leaving me thank you for not coming back thank you for allowing me to find someone the size of my Heart