Martina Sorbara

> Just a few more days 'till spring
And I'm crossing my fingers
Oh let the snow melt into rain
The city is deserted
As if everybody hurt it
This town doesn't want us around here today
And I've got that feeling my life is caving in
I can't help but feel that way
So don't even tell me that all in good time
That I'll be just fine
I'd feel so much better if you'd loosen my tether
As I'm tossed about, your cold white ball
I'd get on the freeway, wont stop driving 'till next Tuesday
And put a thousand miles between us or more
I know that's not possible, all the streets here run in circles
I wouldn't even make it out of the car
So don't even tell me that all in good time
That I'll be just fine
Don't even try to ease my mind
Oh don't waste my time
If I do get through this
I promise you this
Next time around I'll get it right
I'll walk through your ghost town
In nothing but my night gown
And you can blow with all your might
And I'll face you smiling
Whether dying or surviving
But for now I just got to make it through tonight
So don't even tell me that all in good time
That I'll be just fine
Don't you try to ease my mind
Oh don't waste my time
Don't even tell me
That I'll be just fine
'cause I know I'm not fine
Don't ask me to try and be kind
Because it's personal this time

He said: "take off your clothes for me
I've got a dirty fantasy
Your body's generosity
Could really be of use to me,"
Naturally I said: "certainly,"

He said: "I've got some time
If you don't mind
To close your eyes
And be robbed blind
I'm in a bind, you'd be so kind,"
His words were sweet and silver-lined
I said "fine,"
Well, how can I decline?

And he's told me I'm efficient
Conveniently complacent
He told me that I got the job done
He said I best do all that I can
To make him a better man
And make him a better man
When he's gone
Better when he's gone

I don't know what he takes me for
But he's had me
And he'll take me more
He says that's what sweet flesh is for
Oh, what's left
But this apple-core?

And he's told me I'm efficient
Conveniently complacent
He told me that I got the job done
He said I best do all that I can
To make him a better man
And make him a better man
When he's gone
Better when he's gone

It's snowing on the west side
Let me take you for a ride
I'll be Bonnie and you'll be Clyde
See if we can get ourselves killed
Before we die

And we'll drive like bandits
On the Queensway
We'll hold hands like in the movies
I'll say oh Clyde you drive me crazy
And you'll just capture me like it was
Armed robbery

We'll pass through Prince Ed County
And I'll steal you something pretty
You'll say man well aren't I lucky
Gone and found myself a crooked lady

And we'll drive like bandits
On the Queensway
We'll hold hands like it the movies
I'll say oh Clyde you drive me crazy
And you'll just capture me like it was
Armed robbery

We'll find the cure to all our bad deeds
And maybe we will be redeemed

We drove like bandits
On the Queensway
We held hands like in the movies
I did my best to drive you crazy
You just captured me like it was
Armed robbery
You just captured me like
Armed robbery

You try to open me up like a music box
You think you'll here some sweet song
I just erupt like vesuvius
Like you said something horribly wrong
Why is it
The one I get fed up with
Is the one that I can't do without
You're nothing but good to me
And I keep exploding
Can't even remember what it was about
Call the authorities
Call the powers that be, yeah
Call security
and tell them what's happened to me, yeah
Yeah
It's like I was stuck In this amusement park
And I am less amused all the time
It's like I played all the games
And went on all the silly rides
Feel like I went up too high
I was spun round too many times
'Cause I can't help feeling sick
And tired
Call the paramedic
Get some one to do something, yeah
Call a mechanic
I think I'm malfunctioning, yeah
Call wolf
Call wolf,
Yeah, yeah.
Call horror, call terror, call bloody murder
Call wolf

I put you on the King car
You'll be home in an hour
I ought to wipe the slate clean
With new sheets and a shower

You think I jumped the gun
Well I think I bit the bullet
If I held that trigger again
I think I'd aim at you and pull it

I don't really know ya
But you were no Casanova

You decide what I'm here to provide
Fun and conversation versus
Good old fashioned lubrication
I'm fine this is all contrived
And I'm fine that you're just
On vacation

I don't regret what we did
Nothing wrong with a little impulse
But man what I wouldn't give
To be the one not returning your calls

I don't really know ya
But you were no Casanova
And that just goes to show ya
That I'm right back where I started
Not even broken hearted

I'm not even broken hearted

It's a little bit to late
To correct this whole mistake
So I'm laying where we lay
Trying to lose this constant replay

I don't really know ya
But you were no Casanova
And that just goes to show ya
That I'm right back where I started
Not even broken hearted


music and lyrics by martina sorbara
martina sorbara - vocals/acoustic guitar
adam hay - drums
murray foster - bass
jian ghomeshi - percussion

ho likes wednesdays anyways?
She said 'there's not enough dance in the week
Wouldn't you say?
If I had my way'
She says 'It'd be friday
And we'd stay and dance til after the band pack the stuff away.'

And oh yea,
Claudia
Wish I danced like you girl
I dance like I had nothing to worry about
Cept the rock and roll
And yea, oh yea

Look ain't she cool
Oh I'm a right fool
I spill my guts like she cares what I'm going through
And I'm sure she don't like me
Yea but really how could she?
I live by dirby
I come from the country
And I'm a nobody

An yea oh yea
Claudia
Wish I was cool as you girl
Oh, wish I had nothing better to worry about
'Cept the rock and roll

And one day I'll just as wild
If she's no shame then why should I
Claudia
Wish I was just like you.

And she got it all man
She got everything.
Wish I was half as glamorous and out of hand
So help me claudia
Be more just like ya.
Cause I'm scared stiff
Scared have to death
Oh help me shake this pettiness

Wow, oh
Claudia
Wish I was just like you girl
Wish I had nothing better to worry
Oh Claudia
There's no one quite like you girl
Don't you have something better to worry about
'Cept the rock and roll

In uncharted door wells
Necks wrap around necks
Blood vessels burst to make a necklace
I'm pushed into darkness
By a relentless pelvis
Oh how makeshift, how reckless
It's like eggs over easy
Bottomless coffee
Oh won't you force feed me
Something so greasy
Give me that counterfeit affection
Your on sale, bargain bin love
If I close one eye
Look up at the sky
The moon the size the colour of a shiny new dime
With no depth perception
It's tough to imagine
This mistake I want to make just one more time
It's like eggs over easy
Bottomless coffee
Oh won't you force feed me something sleazy
Give me your counterfeit affection
You're on sale, Bargain-bin love
And we roll in doors
Like we've just been washed ashore
And my smudged grin gives us away
And the smoke is congregating between floor and ceiling
We've got so much to do so little to say
I need another drink
A screw driver I think
So I ooze over to the counter
I look the man in the eye
And on an in-drawn sigh
I place my order
I say give me your eggs over easy
Bottomless coffee
Oh won't you force feed me something so sleazy
Give me your counterfeit affection
You're on sale bargain bin love

When I strip for my window
The audience is always easy
And when I kiss my pillow
At least I know what he sees in me
I could be seductive
But I'm just not seductive
I'm not the mystery
That you made of me
So I've boarded up the windows of my palace
So I've grown accustomed to rose coloured glasses
I called all the local papers
Saying look what he did to me
Look what he said to me
Don't take this guy seriously
Still I find myself on my knees
Repenting relentlessly
For what he didn't find in me
For what I didn't turn out to be
He says I boarded up the windows of my palace
That I've grown accustomed to rose coloured glasses
So I live the life in pink
So I'm different than you think
So I'm not so outrageous
I'm not so outrageous
There was a time I was mighty
When I stood as tall as I can
Yeah, once I was mighty
Now you've made even smaller than I am
'Cause I've boarded up the windows of my palace
I've grown accustomed to rose coloured glasses
So I live the life in pink
So I'm different than you think
I'm not so outrageous
So I couldn't do what you did
I'm a little more timid
I'm not so courageous
I'm not so courageous
Once I was mighty
Once I was mighty

Spinning around the sun
Making my way (my way, making my way)
'Round and 'round, here I come
It's a beautiful day (it's a beautiful day)
Living, dying, laughing, I'm trying
Dizzy, but get it done
Spinning around (i'm spinning around)

It's a winding road, it's an uphill climb
It's a distant dream, it's faith gone blind
It's a far away shore, it's a twisted tale
It's hit or miss, it's swim or sail
Just when you think you got it together
There comes the sun in, change in the weather

Spinning around the sun
Making my way (my way, making my way)
'Round and 'round here, I come
It's a beautiful day (it's a beautiful day)
Living, dying, laughing, I'm trying
Dizzy, but get it done
Spinning around

It's complicated, it's wonderful
Unusually unusual
It's predictable, it's unrehearsed
It's common chaos here on earth
Gravity in reverse
I'm at home here in my universe

Spinning around the sun
Making my way (my way, making my way)
'Round and 'round, here I come
It's a beautiful day (it's a beautiful day)
Living, dying, laughing, I'm trying
Dizzy, but get it done
Spinning around (i'm spinning around)

'Round and 'round
And 'round and 'round
And 'round and 'round
And 'round

Spinning around the sun
Making my way
'Round and 'round, here I come
It's a beautiful day

Spinning around the sun
Making my way (my way, making my way)
'Round and 'round, here I come
It's a beautiful day (it's a beautiful day)
Living, dying, laughing, I'm trying
Dizzy, but get it, dizzy, but get it done

Spinning around (i'm spinning around, spinning around, i'm spinning around)
Spinning around (i'm spinning around, spinning around, i'm spinning around)
Spinning around, (i'm spinning around) ooh ooh oooh (i'm spinning around)
Spinning around (i'm spinning around, spinning around)

Trying to read her palm
With a clenched fist
Calling out for whatever's in store
Asking: "God, did the Devil put you up to this?
Whatever it is, I can't take it any more,"

She says "I'm gonna make
Something of myself tonight
God and the Devil, I'll show you up
I can fight back and I just might
Your tempting business isn't
All that tough,"

She's thrown all caution to the wind
Hoping to catch it in her sails
When her ship comes in
But this ship won't float
No, it just don't

Parading around town
With her open wounds
Saying: "hush now, don't tell a soul,"
Any charity will come too soon
"I can get through this on my own,"
And she's recruiting sympathy like it's an army
And as the front lines fall, she brings new lines up
She says: "keep on your tip-toes, boys
My tissue's scarring,"
Collecting pity like change in a cup

And she's thrown all caution to the wind
Hoping to catch it in her sails
When her ship comes in
But this ship won't float
No, it just don't

She won't make it worth her while
She won't let it get her down
Just try hard to keep that smile
But it's just an upside-down frown

I said make it worth your while
I said let it get you down
Why try so hard to keep that smile
When it's just an upside-down frown?

Trying to read her palm
With a clenched fist
Calling out for more
Saying, "God and the devil
You won't get away with this
When my ship comes in
I'll win this war

God and the devil
You haven't seen the end of this
When my ship comes in
I'll win this war,"

He shot just like a comet
Into my orbit
He sparked and spread like a forest blaze
Took over like a teenage craze
And ma said,
"Tina, he was worth the wait,'
She thinks that I've
Made a grave mistake

Oh God, look at what I've done
I've pulled it all apart, just for fun
Just to see if it would come undone
Now it's all come undone

Last time that he saw me
It was way back in February
And he was smoking like a chimney
He had me swaying like a daisy
When he said,
"Happy Valentine's day, babe,"
And I took the heart-shaped box
And I walked away

Oh God, look at what I've done
I've pulled it all apart, just for fun
Just to see if it would come undone
Now it's all undone

Now I stay out late at night
I do what the heck I like
Adventurousness is alright, I guess
But I like it less and less
And hey, well, that's exactly
What he warned
He said, "If you think this happens every day, babe
You've got a lot to learn,"

Oh God, look at what I've done
I've pulled it all apart, just for fun
Just to see if it would come undone
Just to watch it all come undone

Just to see it all come undone
Now it's all come undone
Yeah, it's all come undone