I don’t know how to love him,
What to do, how to move him.
I’ve been changed, yes, really changed.
In these past few days when I’ve seen myself
I seem like someone else.
I don’t know how to take this
I don’t see why he moves me.
He’s a man, he’s just a man.
And I’ve had so many men before
In very many ways:
He’s just one more
Should I bring him down? Should I scream and shout?
Should I speak of love – let my feelings out?
I never thought I’d come to this – what’s it all about?
Don’t you think it’s rather funny
I should be in this position?
I’m the one who’s always been
So calm, so cool, no lover’s fool
Running every show
He scares me so.
I never thought I’d come to this – what’s it all about
Yet, if he said he loved me
I’d be lost, I’d be frightened.
I couldn’t cope, just couldn’t cope.
I’d turn my head, I’d back away,
I wouldn’t want to know -
He scares me so.
I want him so.
I love him so.
You could shoot off a cannon
down the middle of Bond
and attract no attention in downtown St. John’s
This getting nowhere is getting to me
Wondering where can you go
to be all you can be
No regular Joe wants to pull up and go
And wind up homesick
Where there’s no one you know
Just a smoke and a beer
And the sports on TV
Being sorry you left
With no choice but to leave
(Chorus)
No change in the weather
No change in me
I don’t want to leave
but I can’t live for free
Can’t eat the air, can’t drink the sea
No change in the weather
No change in me
You could shoot off a cannon
From the top of Long’s Hill
And a Gulliver’s taxi might be all that you’d kill
We were promised the sun
and the moon and the stars
We got weathered old clapboard and salt-rusted cars
So I’ll join in the leaving like all of the rest
Montreal, Calgary, Vancouver West
Lay down on the sidewalk
Kick off and die
And watch people not looking
Loneliness is a pow’r that we possess to give or take away forever.
All I know can be shown by your acceptance of the fact there shown
before you.
Take what I say in a diff’rent way and it’s easy to see
that this is all confusion.
As I see a new day in me, I can also show if you and you may follow.
Speak to me of summer, long winters longer than time can remember,
Setting up of other roads, to travel on in old accustomed ways.
I still remember the talks by the water, the proud sons and
daughters that,
Knew the knowledge of the land, spoke to me in sweet accustomed
ways.



