Lyrics to Defiance, Ohio split 7".

Dirge for 95 and 10

Crossing borders and sharing beds
I'm seeing now where this has led
Through long conversation we both have found
How our voices carry more than sound.

If Memphis can pass for Toronto streets
I need to hear an accent that says
"Though we wish for what we've lost, there's still difference in this world, and what's more
we'll seek it out, we'll find out what background is all about.
Fuck being lost in a mass where we sound like we're born and raised in just one place."

It's all the same, it's all the same
The highways sing a tired refrain
but locked in your hometown are more stories than
all the stores on 95 and 10.

Sorry, Irma Thomas

It's raining, the roof is falling in
Doorframes expand to shut off rooms.
The ground won't hold water, it's coming in.
Our bedrooms make thick brick walls.
Our muscles hold cold in like oxygen.
Let's have a party, break out some windows,
Let the sunlight in.
No books, no letters, no songs will hold this place together.

When May gets here we'll wake up.

Here we're taking the weather personally.
Here we gave new meaning to letting this place go.
No books, no letters, no songs will hold this place together.

Trained my eyes to the sun.
Put on records til it was dawn.
Drank all we could to stay warm.
Next winter if you get here I'll be gone.