Broken Social Scene – Shampoo Suicide

Although I haven’t fully recovered emotionally from the Superbowl yesterday, I felt I needed to post today.  The funny thing is that my team wasn’t even in the damn game and I still took the loss harder than a healthy person should.  Anyways, today I felt like sharing a song from the Canadian indie super-group Broken Social SceneBroken Social Scene reviews.  Currently consisting of 19 members from various Canadian groups and solo projects, the band has released 4 studio albums.  Shampoo Suicide comes from the band’s JunoJuno reviews-winning 2002 album You Forgot It in PeopleYou Forgot It In People reviews.  I first heard the song during a devastating scene in the 2006 film Half NelsonHalf Nelson reviews, featuring Ryan Gosling. 

Notable Broken Social Scene contributors include Leslie Feist, Emily Haines of MetricMetric reviews, Amy Millan and Torquil Campbell of StarsLow Stars reviews, and Jason Tait from The Weakerthans.

All the lights we were
All the lights we were
All the lights we were
Do you remember?

How they need some fruit and sweet heart
To come a time, some time we spent
(I cried for we when all was to come free
At the broken heart in the room)
Split your tongue down the semi kind
And show us lovers that don’t love to live
Lick the kill that never did
Eat the trees and then get off on time
Get us something with the finger kids
(I want it)

Put your teeth where you love to love
Drink some spit just to save your life
Bury parents in a moment’s time
Hate it all and you still use shampoo
You hate it all and you still use shampoo
Find some bullets in a backyard
Shoot them up with your favourite kid
Free them up like its another knife
Save them for when you thought you did
Seen the tricks all use shampoo
You hate it all

My daddy told me to get a life
Like the something of simple time
It tastes so good
I’ve seen your dreams and I wish you would
I’ve seen your choice and it don’t taste so good
Sucks the jaws and they won’t taste so good
I’ve seen your drugs and the don’t look so good
Suck the jaws like I wish you would

Related posts:

• Broken Social Scene – Lover’s Spit
• Broken Social Scene – Ibi Dreams of Pavement (A Better Day)
• Broken Social Scene – Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl
• Broken Social Scene – World Sick
• Julie Doiron – All Their Broken Hearts

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