A New Name For Everything Lyrics - Singles - The Weakerthans

When the bus-shelter windows 

And napkin-dispensers surprise 

With distorted reflections, it's never the someone 

You're hoping to recognize 

And the rent is too high 

Living here between reasons to live 

Where you can't sleep alone and your memories groan 

And the borders of night start to give 

When you can't save, cash or conviction 

You're broke and you're breaking a tired shoelace or a wave 

So long past, past-due a new name for everything 

When the one-ways collude 

With the map that you folded wrong 

And the route you abandoned 

Is always the path that you probably should be upon 

When the bottle-cap ashtrays 

And intimates ears are all full 

With results of your breath, and the threads of your fear 

Are unfurled with the tiniest pull 

One more time, try 

Stand with your hands in your pockets 

And stare at the smudge on a newspaper sky 

And ask it to rain a new name for everything 

Fire every phrase 

They don't wanna work for us anymore 

Dot and Dash our days 

Make your face the flag of a semaphore 

All you won't show, the boxes you brought here 

And never unpacked are still patiently waiting to go 

So put on those clothes you never grew into 

And smile like you mean it for once 

If you come back, bring a new name for everything 

A new name for everything 

A new name for everything