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The Weakerthans

Utilities

Release date: 25th September 2007

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About This Track

"Utilities" is a track by The Weakerthans, from the album Reunion Tour, released 25th September 2007. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

The Weakerthans

The Weakerthans

Lyrics

Utilities

Got this feeling that today doesn't like me

Oh the air tastes like flowers and paint

There's a sink full of bottles and cutlery

And the car has got a list of complaints

I just wish I were a toothbrush or a solder gun

Make me something somebody can use

We can wish on the pop of a light bulb

Or those photos lying yellowed and curled

Loose in boxes near abandoned electronics

In the corners of the basements of the world

Guess our wishes don't do dishes or brake repairs

Make them something somebody can use

Got a face full of ominous weather

Smirking smile of a high pressure ridge

Got more faults than the state of California

And the heart is a badly built bridge

Seems the most I have to offer doesn't offer much

Make it something somebody can use

Make this something somebody can use

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Track details

From Reunion Tour

2007
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Reunion Tour
Reunion Tour
The Weakerthans
Release year
2007
  1. —Reunion Tour
  2. —Sun in an Empty Room
  3. —Elegy for Gump Worsley
  4. —Hymn of the Medical Oddity
  5. —Utilities
  6. —Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure
  7. —Tournament of Hearts
  8. —Bigfoot!
  9. —Relative Surplus Value
  10. —Civil Twilight
  11. —Night Windows
  12. —Sun in an Empty Room
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