2nd 4th World War - Bruce Peninsula

For all those millmen who cut their teeth

Whose minds were made up on roof and feed

I’ll come and I’ll leave

Aching from a night in the city

It might ruin me now, but I’d probably already be ruined

For skin burned black with coal and grease

That stuck to their lungs whenever they’d breathe

I’ll come and I’ll leave

Tempted by the lights of the city

No clowning around

T onight we’re going out to get ruined

And I probably woulda never have thought

If it weren’t written on metal

That this is very old ground that you’re running from

Can’t look for long, gotta be left and gone by five

To be half-seas over by nine

And bleeding drunk by midnight

Forever indebted to the feats of our fathers

But carry it on your back, it’s a sure collapse

Laid out flat, gaspin'

All the trouble you attract

With cause to match

Would bring a quick collapse

If you always had to carry that

If the gear wheel goes

(There's gonna be a flood comin')

When the wallower rolls

(There's gonna be a flood comin')

Next thing you know

(There's gonna be a flood comin' on)

And the water won’t spare us

(The water won’t spare us)

If it comes to get us

(If it comes to get us)

And it won’t let up ‘til all that’s dear and precious is gone

And our hearts all screech a hault

Whenever there’s a flood coming on

And when that flood comes it comes as a canon

One that lets you catch the shot in your hands

But just to send its shocking tidal wave

Through every bone in your body

Dealt our hands, mine’s low on luck

If you’re all going out you can sign me up

Seems the only time that I can collect my thoughts

Is if I’m bleeding, stinking drunk (so drink up)

We’ll admit in the names of our fathers

But carry it on your back, it’s a sure collapse

Laid out flat, gaspin'

All the trouble you attract, with cause to match

Would bring a quick collapse

If you always had to carry that

And even though the doubt we all felt

Came to prove itself

The overflow came down

With a force we never dreamed off

When that rolling canon shot

Rolls along again, our guard is up

All the damage and all we’ve lost

Lost it all with a canon shot