Only Partly Broken

[Verse 1] Here we go, Pierre Trudeau, Montreal airport ᒋᔖᔨᔨᐆ sipping chai, you know that I care for it I'm gonna get on that plane, I'm gonna subdue that pain I'm gonna get back to the ocean, salt wells up inside my veins Well up in an aeroplane, looking down on hills and plains Roads they run through forests like some wasted giant's crooked veins And arteries, "Artillery" in my headphones, I'm just meat on dead bones Were it not for the hottie next to my body, I'd be rocking headstone And when I read the comments on the Facebook and the online fora It's enough to make me wanna get on-flight to Bora Bora I say, "Now I can run, lay down in the sun" Weighed down like a ton, ate cow on a bun Cos I'm from the agricultural heart of the multicultural art called Canada But these vultures are smart when they pannin' ya And it's hard to halt yourself when they handin' ya Trinkets full of gold to appeal to the man in ya, fannin' ya, then cannin' ya Ya walked, then ya ran an' ya [Hook 1] Ran too far to tell Stumbled and you fell Into the cavern mouth of your special breed of hell Where you’re waiting for the day That they can break away And it doesn’t even matter if you tell them you can pay Because regardless of the cost Your little ones are lost Another non-existent phone call, while your hair mingles with moss And you’re screaming in your soul In that nigrescent hole Deaf ears are all that catches protest: “I can pay the toll” [Verse 2] But... yes! I love it, I'm back in the land of the seagull Yes! Covet it like it's the hand of Smeagol This is my precious, pretty nets to enmesh us Makes me wanna coat myself in glitter, gaudy stuff like Ke$ha's Gotti stuff like Jay Z, by the waves I'm chillin', lazy Maritimes been on my merry mind, yeah, lately I've been fucking crazy For Adirondacks over them them wrong tracks, it's like Adderall to me You add it all up 'bout your Rockies, rockin' these wings to the sea! [Hook 2] Swim in azure waves Right out of the cave Feel the dappled sunlight banish misery of slaves And the cool wind soothe the burns Animates ash in the urns Depression dissipates, and tell it, “Have to wait your turn” With your family alongside Feel the gravity of tides And the salt is lighter in your blood, feel it move inside Dysphoria recedes Diaspora it bleeds We’re home and we are happy, not a single care or need [Bridge] I know we’ve got problems But if you’re honest, so does everywhere else We’re only partly broken More than I can say for myself... [Hook 3] I know that you’re peeved You think you wanna leave But I’ve seen the vanquished wasteland that I wear upon my sleeves I love it where I am It’s made me a better man No serious complaints about it, it’s a glorious land But you only have one home And no matter where you roam Bon Jovi wrote a song about it, "Who says, who says...?" That you can’t wield your clout? Find solution to your pout? When you talk about destruction, you know you can count me out [Outro] Count me out Count me out Count me out Count me out