When The Weight Comes Down - The Tragically Hip

Afternoon see a guy with rubies on his head

And he’s shifting like, shifting like he was dead

And he’s hearing something she never said

On his way back home under his bed

When the weight comes down

When the weight comes down

In the night a girl who doesn’t mind her ragged sleeves

Knowing someone is going to grieve

And a man he tells her a story she just don’t believe

Called «Adam never could do right by Eve»

When the weight comes down

When the weight comes down

When the weight comes down

Down on you, down on you

And a girl walks by the burning bush

She asks, «What's gone wrong here, man?»

And he smiles and says, «Open wide, wide, wide»

In my dreams a candy coated train comes to my door

With a little girl I can’t have any more

You know a letter washes up to the shore

That I cannot read and I probably should ignore

When the weight comes down

When the weight comes down

When the weight comes down

When the weight, when the weight comes down

Down on me, down on me, down on me

When the weight comes down

Oh no, I cannot breathe, I cannot breathe

When the weight comes down

When the weight comes down

Well, get out, get out, get out, get out, get out, no, no, no

Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no

No, no, no