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Ben Caplan & The Casual Smokers will be on tour in Canada and the US from February 15 - April 8, 2017. Find Ben Caplan on the road: Buy the music: words and music by Ben Caplan horn and string arrangements by Michael Winograd Read the lyrics below Video Credits: Directed by John Rosborough Produced by Ashley Lynn LeBlanc Choreography by Alexis Cormier Dancers Olivia MacEachern and Annalise Morash Dance Master Elizabeth McCarthy Camera by Marc Pike and Darryl LeBlanc Edited by Cody Spence and Dale Meaney With the help of Melanie Solomon, Andrew McInnes, Shaun Clarke, Heather Frantsi, Stephanie O'Donnell, Kevin McNeil, bring me birds with broken wings men with all the answers people who have killed give me incurable cancers bring me beaches slicked in oil gimme disregard for doubt street light shine on broken roads where no one is about I want that hopeless green depression punishments without a cause gimme impotent obsession a disregard for laws I want the trees in single file bring the corpse of something rare show me children who are sinners show me mounds of human hair I climbed up the mountain just to kill my son An angle tried to stop me with a ram “Well,” he said, “your mind's infected” but I said, “You lack perspective. You gotta walk the bottom if you want to see the top.” Gimme me poison I can swim in water I can't drink wheels that won't stop spinning teach my children not to think I want the fruit the tastes like nothing extra thumbs for every crook gimme lessons without questions a mild disdain for books gimme metaphors unraveled poetry defined bring me the head of Dionysus but please don't spell out the wine. Trade the future for the present trade me ashes for my history I don't need to look inside I know the answer to the mystery I climbed up the mountain just to kill my son An angel tried to stop me with a ram “Well,” he said, “your mind's infected.” but I said, “you lack of perspective. You gotta walk the bottom if you want to see the top.” Oh I know they call me crazy there will be no turning back I don't care if things get ugly once the word of God is spoken there's no way to take it back
