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Looking For A Place To Happen Lyrics
[Verse 1]
I've got a job, I explore
I follow every little whiff
And I want my life to smell like this
To find a place, an ancient race
The kind you'd like to gamble with
Where they'd stamp on burning bags of shit
[Chorus]
Looking for a place to happen
Making stops along the way
[Verse 2]
Wayward ho! Away we go
It's a shame to leave this masterpiece
With its gallery gods and its garbage-bag trees
So I'll paint a scene, from memory
So I'd know who murdered me
It's a vain pursuit, but it helps me to sleep
[Chorus x2]
[Verse 3]
Jacques Cartier, right this way
I'll put your coat up on the bed
Hey man you've got a real bum's eye for clothes
And come on in, sit right down
No you're not the first to show
We've all been here since, God, who knows?
I've got a job, I explore
I follow every little whiff
And I want my life to smell like this
To find a place, an ancient race
The kind you'd like to gamble with
Where they'd stamp on burning bags of shit
[Chorus]
Looking for a place to happen
Making stops along the way
[Verse 2]
Wayward ho! Away we go
It's a shame to leave this masterpiece
With its gallery gods and its garbage-bag trees
So I'll paint a scene, from memory
So I'd know who murdered me
It's a vain pursuit, but it helps me to sleep
[Chorus x2]
[Verse 3]
Jacques Cartier, right this way
I'll put your coat up on the bed
Hey man you've got a real bum's eye for clothes
And come on in, sit right down
No you're not the first to show
We've all been here since, God, who knows?
[Chorus]
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Genius Annotation
“Looking For A Place To Happen” is a narrative of European colonization in Canada, following the perspective of French explorer Jacques Cartier who is looking for gullible people to exploit.
It also deals with the topic of the genocide of Indigenous peoples in Canada, and how many of these murders remain unsolved.
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