Pamphleteer lyrics

Artist  : Weakerthans 
Song : Pamphleteer



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I'm standing on this corner. Can't get their
attention. Facing

rush hour faces turned around. I clutch my stack
of paper,

press one to a chest, then watch it swoop and
stutter to the

ground. I'm weary with right-angles, abbreviated
daylight,

and waiting for a winter to be done. Why do I
still see you in

every mirrored window, in all that I could never
overcome?

How I don't know what I should do with my hands
when I talk

to you. How you don't know where you should look,
so you

look at my hands. How movements rise and then
dissolve,

melted by our shallow breath. How causes dance
away from

me. I am your pamphleteer. I walk this room in
time to the

beat of the Gestetner, contemplate my next
communique.

The rhetoric and treason of saying that I'll miss
you. Of

saying "Hey, well maybe you should stay." Sing
"Oh what

force on earth could be weaker than the feeble
strength of

one*" like me remembering the way it could have
been. Help

me with this barricade. No surrender. No defeat.
A spectre's

haunting Albert Street. I am your pamphleteer.




* Ralph Chaplin, Solidarity Forever, 1916