lyrics

No matter how good the song, without lyrics that actually say something, a song is just noise. As mentioned earlier, her lyrics are first rate. She's a serious thinker, and her songs show this.

God Made Me - Surrounded - Don't Be Good
Believer - Grace - Wayne - Imaginary Friend
Hands - Disagree - Co-Dependant - Green Apples - Boot - Actions Without Love

God Made Me

i'm jaded
and you're beautiful
i'm deluded
and envious of you
you're carin'
that i'm hurtin'
but i'm laughing
'cause i'm lyin'
and you believe what i say
to be true

this is the way
god made me!

no self-reliance
no social skills
you're confident
and you express yourself
so well
you're learned
degrees upon your wall
i'm jealous
no invitations to the ball

this is the way
god made me

no self esteem
you're picture perfect
you walk about so contented
the trees call out your name
you're clean and i'm so ignorant
i'm basic and i'm jaded
and my excuses are so lame

Written by: Chantal Kreviazuk and Chris Burke - NeuroBurke Sounds/Chrysalis Songs (SOCAN)

Surrounded

i was there
when you shone as bright as
bethlehem from afar
i was there
when you were young and strong
and perverted
and everything that makes a young man
oh you were a star
i was there
and i swear to god
and on my mother's grave
on everything i have
or ever will embrace
i was there
and i saw it with my own two eyes

and now it's all around me
it's all around me
i'm surrounded
now it's all around me
it's all around me
you surround me like a circle

i was there
c'mon and tell me i wasn't worth
sticking it out for
well i was there
and i know i was worth it
cause if i wasn't worth it
that makes me worse off then you are
but don't lose sight of me now
don't lose sight of me now

i was there
when they dropped the bomb
ya' know i remember the bomb
and i still hear the bomb
and i still fight the bomb
you know i still fear the bomb
you know i still hate the bomb
sometimes i still get the call

so don't lose sight of me now
you know you're all around me
i'm surrounded
you surround me like a circle


Written by: Chantal Kreviazuk - Neverwouldathot Music/Sony/ATV Music Publishing Canda (SOCAN)

Don't Be Good

i don't know when you learn it
but when you learn it you learn it fast
they're the ones who love to learn
they're not fast, they're nice guys
they finish last

they're waiting and wondering
wondering where did i go wrong

don't be good
don't be good
don't be good to me
don't be good
though you should
that won't work you see

well i don't know when i learned it
but when i learned it i learned it fast
they're the ones who'd love to love me
they're not fast
they're nice guys, they finish last
they're waiting & wondering
wondering where did i go wrong

don't be good
don't be good
don't be good to me
don't be good
though you should
that won't work for me

so don't be good to me
don't be good to me
you're so good for me

Written by: Chantal Kreviazuk - Neverwouldathot Music/Sony/ATV Music Publishing Canada (SOCAN)

Believer

i carry my microphone with me
everywhere i go
it makes for a very good dead weight
in case of an emergency
in case i need need to break your face
in case i need you to be dead

who do you think you are
who do i think you are
i know who you are
and it's hard to believe
that god made you and me
with the same hands

sit? i tell my doggie to sit
but i am not a dog
but you make the animal in
me want to come out all over you

and it's hard to believe
that i'm still a believer


Written by: Chantal Kreviazuk - Neverwouldathot Music/Sony/ATV Music Publishing Canada (SOCAN)

Grace

please don't go
i cannot breathe you in
your air is too thick for me
and it makes my lungs sting
please don't go
i cannot walk beside
think i'll stay behind a mile
'cause i don't need you crampin' my style

you still have grace
you still have mercy
to keep kissing my face
even though i am wrong

please don't go
without you i am weak
find myself drinking and sinking
and seeking
please don't go
sometimes it gets so cold
but i'd rather grab for a blanket
instead of just walkin' into your
comfort zone

i know i've wronged you
i know i've hurt you so many times
i hope i haven't scarred you
if you keep kissing my face
one day I'll no longer do you wrong


Written by: Chantal Kreviazuk - Neverwouldathot Music/Sony/ATV Music Publishing Canada (SOCAN)

Wayne

i'll be the girl with the long blond hair
and the really pale skin if you care
i sit in the corner of the room
cross-legged and quiet
filled with doom

i never ever liked the smell in here
it's cold and wet and reeks of beer
the lights are turned out permanently
but that's ok
cause i don't want to see

wayne - wait for me
and take me up in your hot-air balloon
and feed me cotton candy
wayne - pray for me
'cause i'll be there in a couple of years
until then, wait for me

who's the strange lady
with the big silly hair
and berries on her face
dressed like a pear
do i really have to hold her hand
and pretend she's my mommy
you're wife and man
(when i know you're not my mommy)
it's crowded and i feel lost in here
i'm trying to find a familiar fear
i look everywhere but i just can't see
there's not anything that reminds me of me

you made me feel as fresh as flowers
under these rocks and stones


Written by: Chantal Kreviazuk - Neverwouldathot Music/Sony/ATV Music Publishing Canada (SOCAN)

Imaginary Friend

it scares me to speak my mind
it might sound self-absorbed
i don't say half of what i think.
i wonder what i'm thinkin' for

i'm smelling dead flowers
and listening to the walls again
i'm drinking from a leaky faucet
and writing this with a dried up pen
wish i still had my imaginary friend

and who needs to listen, well...
what do i have to sell
everyone's just waitin for their own turn
kind of like show and tell

someone to listen
someone to laugh
someone to cry at the right times

and i would call him up
but i don't remember his name


Written by: Chantal Kreviazuk - Neverwouldathot Music/Sony/ATV Music Publishing Canada (SOCAN)

Hands

there's a man outside my door tonight
he cries for help he sings a pleading song
well times are tough for everyone
gotta hold on to what i got
and just kind of cruise along

well i do
want to be helpful
but it's cold and i'm told
you can't be too careful

out of the mouth of a mother
into the hands of a brother
into the heart of a lover
and out of the hands of another.

you can never tell who your neighbour is
or what he's doin' at night or who his friends are
well you don't know where he's from
or where he's been or who he knows
you know you can't be too careful
these days

well i do want to be helpful
whoa but it's cold
and i'm told he might just be the devil

well i don't take chances
and i don't take time to see
and i don't take nothing
from nobody
no way - not me

into the eyes of a child
into the ears of a child
into the heart of a child


Written by: Chris Burke-Gaffney - NeuroBurke Sounds/Chrysalis Songs (SOCAN)

Disagree

tell me what you want from me
well i'm not saying i'll believe
i could solve your mystery
but i would rather disagree

you say the truth will set me free
so how come you're comin' down on me
you think it's real if you can see
well i don't take to that philosophy

cause you know
i would i would i would i would
i would rather disagree
do you see yourself inside of me
and do it take away your miseries
am i just one more catastrophe

yah

i always say what i don't mean

don't feed me i'm full!
you know i'll starve before i fall
don't bleed me, don't bleed me

even if you're right
even if you're wrong


Written by: Chantal Kreviazuk & Chris Burke-Gaffney - Neverwouldathot Music/Sony/ATV Music Publishing Canada (SOCAN) / NeuroBurke Sounds/Chrysalis Songs (SOCAN)

Co-Dependent

when i go swimming in your intellect
the water's so shallow and the dialect
is so phony but i eat it up like bologna
i can't get enough

well i
should end it
but i
defend it
well i
can't recommend it
cause i'm
your co-dependent

when you go fishing
for a compliment
it's soooo
so obvious
but i can't help it
so i put up with it
'cause your my habit
and i just can't quit

the world keeps spinning
the joker keeps grinning
Lucifer keeps sinning
but i need a new beginning

baby - by my co-dependent


Written by: Chris Burke-Gaffney - NeuroBurke Sounds/Chrysalis Songs (SOCAN)

Green Apples

you're toast and jam
and you're cotton candy
you're double rainbows
beside a setting sun
you're wood burnin' outside
there's a fire growin'
you're sweet as green apples
you must be the one

you bring me to the heart of a golden man
you bring me to the natural truth
you take me to a solid hollow
and keep me sailing this ocean of youth

so take me to an altar of diamonds
and run with me through sheets of jungle rain
show me all your manly mystery
and let me heal your beautiful pain

be my island
in crowds of faces
my oasis
be there

lead me to the holy water
introduce me to the place you are from
wherever you go you know i will follow
so take me there and i will come


Written by: Chantal Kreviazuk - Neverwouldathot/Sony/ATV Music Publishing Canada (SOCAN)

Boot

never been here before
never opened up this door
but i got a feelin'
it's just like the others
never heard him laugh before
never felt him feel before
but i got a feeling
it's just like the others

he's got a big boot
he's got a big hand
he's got a big fist
to put me down

here we go again
never heard him lie before
never heard him cry before
but i got a feeling
it's just like all the others
never heard him dream
never felt it before
but I got a feeling
it's just like the others

he's got a big boot
and he's got a big hand
and he's got a big fist
to put me down
he's got a big mouth
and he's got big words
and he's got a big knife
to cut me down

is it all because of the fall
but it's not my fault
how long how long -
how long
do i have to long

never been here before
never walked through this door
but i got a feeling it won't be
like the others

even though he's got.....


Written by: Chantal Kreviazuk, David Immergluck, Michael Urbano and David Faragher - Nerverwouldathot Music/Sony/ATV Music PublishingCanada (SOCAN) / Babalooey Music / David Immergluck / Michael Urbano

Actions Without Love

he ran a marathon
he didn't quite finish
he didn't quite cross the finish line
actions without love
it never really crossed his mind

he sure got the accent down
and he sure can swoon the ladies
and ya know
one day he'll learn
actions without love
the whole bloody language

she pulled out her cheque-book
she asked what the date was
she had to double-check
actions without love
she had to have an audience
actions without love

l o v e !!!!


Written by: Chantal Kreviazuk - Neverwouldathot Music/Sony/ATV Music Publishing Canada (SOCAN)