DESCRIPTION:
Ben Caplan & The Casual Smokers will be on tour in Canada and the US from February 15 - April 8, 2017.
Find Ben Caplan on the road: www.bencaplan.ca/tour
Buy the music: store.bencaplan.ca

words and music by Ben Caplan
horn and string arrangements by Michael Winograd
Read the lyrics below

Video Credits:
Directed by John Rosborough
Produced by Ashley Lynn LeBlanc
Choreography by Alexis Cormier
Dancers Olivia MacEachern and Annalise Morash
Dance Master Elizabeth McCarthy
Camera by Marc Pike and Darryl LeBlanc
Edited by Cody Spence and Dale Meaney
With the help of Melanie Solomon, Andrew McInnes, Shaun Clarke, Heather Frantsi, Stephanie O'Donnell, Kevin McNeil,


bring me birds with broken wings
men with all the answers
people who have killed
give me incurable cancers
bring me beaches slicked in oil
gimme disregard for doubt
street light shine on broken roads
where no one is about

I want that hopeless green depression
punishments without a cause
gimme impotent obsession
a disregard for laws
I want the trees in single file
bring the corpse of something rare
show me children who are sinners
show me mounds of human hair

I climbed up the mountain just to kill my son
An angle tried to stop me with a ram
“Well,” he said, “your mind's infected”
but I said, “You lack perspective.
You gotta walk the bottom if you want to see the top.”

Gimme me poison I can swim in
water I can't drink
wheels that won't stop spinning
teach my children not to think
I want the fruit the tastes like nothing
extra thumbs for every crook
gimme lessons without questions
a mild disdain for books

gimme metaphors unraveled
poetry defined
bring me the head of Dionysus
but please don't spell out the wine.
Trade the future for the present
trade me ashes for my history
I don't need to look inside
I know the answer to the mystery

I climbed up the mountain just to kill my son
An angel tried to stop me with a ram
“Well,” he said, “your mind's infected.”
but I said, “you lack of perspective.
You gotta walk the bottom if you want to see the top.”

Oh I know they call me crazy
there will be no turning back
I don't care if things get ugly
once the word of God is spoken
there's no way to take it back