Civil Twilight

[Verse 1]

My Confusion Corner commuters are cursing the cold away

As December tries to dissemble the length of their working day

And they bite their mitts off to show me transfers, deposit change

And I can't stop finding your face in their faces, all rearranged

And angry like you never were

[Chorus 1]

And I ease us back into traffic

Dusk comes on and I wonder

Why I'm always remembering you

At civil twilight

[Verse 2]

For the most part, I think about golfing and constantly calculate

All the seconds left in the minutes, and so on, et cetera

Or recite the names of provinces and Hollywood actors

Oh, Ontario; oh, Jennifer Jason Leigh

But this part of the day bewilders me

[Chorus 2]

Streets slow down and ice over

Dusk comes on and I struggle

Stop to stop, to stop thinking of you

In civil twilight

[Bridge]

Hey, every other hour I pass that house

Where you told me that you had to go

I wonder if the landlord has fixed the crack

That I stared at instead of staring back

[Chorus 3]

At you, my chance to say something

Seemed so brief, but it wasn't

Now I know I had plenty of time

Between the sunset and certified darkness

Dusk comes on and I follow

The exhaust from memory up to the end

Of civil twilight

[Outro]

At civil twilight

At civil twilight

At civil twilight