Oh Canada Lyrics - Asking For Flowers - Kathleen Edwards

Oh Canada, I stand on guard for a lot 

But just last week a white girl was shot 

Outside a shopping mall 

Yeah, it's written in the press 

That your sweet little town 

Has lost it's innocence 

It's not the year of the gun 

We don't say it out loud 

There are no headlines 

When a black girl dies 

It's not the lack of a sense 

It's called ambivalence 

All still in their lanes 

Under rush hour lights 

There's one head to a car 

But you act so surprised 

When the snow don't come 

You can't swim in the lakes 

Now it's hotter than hell 

In a bed you won't make 

It's not the lack of a sense 

It's called ambivalence 

Up on the hill, is the best real estate 

Just to get in you have to sell off your faith 

'Cause in the valley below 

There is crack and young girls 

But you don't have to believe 

What stays out of your world