Brill Bruisers - The New Pornographers

Out on the waves

Over the railing asking the crowd

To send you back

To stage instead of sailing away

Been left behind

Looking for searchlights leading the charge

The mass appeal

To brilliant bruisers taking the wheel

And the sea was all lighters

It was all lighters

It’s how we know now to never go back

Lob a grenade

I have mere seconds before the bang

Wanted to keep

My job as the leader of your gang

Wanted the hearts

Of brilliant bruisers, where do we find them?

Until we do

We’ll have to drift until we divine them

And the sea was all lighters

It was all lighters

It’s how we know now to never go back

With the junkyard science

To hang on

And do a bang-on

Impression

Of the young sorrow

It’s tied in

A fire in love with sirens

We go in fighting, decrying

The rising star dying

From its own virus, it’s tied in

A firing of the sirens

And the sea was all lighters

It was all lighters

And how we know how to never go back

And the sea was all lighters

It was all lighters

It’s how we know now to never go back