Darling Shade - The New Pornographers

When you add your voice to bad choices

Then you’re not-so-white becomes mannered

It’s dripping down our walls like quicksilver

Dripping down us slowly as Saturn

And for you the cool surprise

Just step in, into traffic

Now you view new medicals

You broke through, your loving

We have found no use for the prophet

Searching for the doubts in our corners

With the ignorance of a poet

An unbreakable focus of mortars

Darling shade our shadows

Was it singing from the bad choices

On a ceiling without a pretext

When you give your mind to your voices

You accept the terms of your sentence

And for you the cruel surprise

The time slowed your walking

Now you view new medicals

You broke through, it’s nothing

Darling shade our shadows

You can get declined when you tell her

Thinking you could learn a new language

Don’t you want to turn a few favors

Since you left everybody hanging

Darling shade our shadows