Canada Day - Emperor X

We met on the bus

And it was Canada Day

We crossed into Detroit, and the heat was insane

But the station was calm

And she walked out of view

Threw a brick with a note through the ticket counter window

It said: I’d rather live in my basement

I’d rather cultivate palm trees

I’d rather move to New England

I’d rather shatter and freeze

Then I ran out the door

She ran out of it too

The cops gave chase, but they got confused

So we escaped to her apartment

On the 30th floor

She had a great view

But that only counts for the non-blind

That’s why: I’d rather live in my basement

I’d rather cultivate palm trees

I’d rather move to New England

I’d rather shatter and freeze

I said, seriously

You’re sleeping alone

You know that’s a waste of your recharge time

But she responded to me

Like she governed her home

Nobody sleeps here, i never sleep here

I hear they’re draining the lake now

I hear they’re shutting the fountains off

They plan to alter the shoreline

They plan to make it all clean

So let’s set fire to both sides

Let’s leave a message they’ll hear — let’s scream

Let’s send a signal through coax

Let’s have them bend the terrain, destroy the lake and make a stream