http://www.amazon.com/Lyrics-Poems-1997-2012-John-Samson/dp/1894037588

it's mostly just weakerthans lyrics on paper (they're in prose though) but there's a couple of never-before-seen pieces that are cool. i dunno it's just when you're jamming the weakerthans you're not 100% focused on john's lyrics even though they're meritorious on their own so you can really appreciate them when they're in a book like that.

Album Rating: 5.0

I'll have to grab myself a copy of it, probably my favourite lyricist. Cheers

Album Rating: 5.0

Span this again today and out of no where came all of these interpretations of lines that I had yet to find a meaning to. There's something about this album which gives me new experiences on every listen.

John K. Samson > other lyricists. Samson probably even takes the cake from mewithoutYou's Aaron Weiss. He is THAT incredible.

Album Rating: 5.0

100% agree

Album Rating: 5.0

Easily my favourite album in terms of lyrics

Reconstruction Site is everything to me right now -

Album Rating: 5.0

Well beauty's just another word I'm never certain how to spell

Album Rating: 5.0

"Benediction" has been my jam lately



So you don't get to be a saint

Martyrs never last this long

I guess I'll never be the one

To defeat desire in song



Here's a marker, here's my naked skin: our Exhibit A

Put a small X where I lost my way

Album Rating: 5.0

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/weakerthans-john-k-samson-releasing-new-album-with-help-from-some-weakerthans/



Quote from article:

'Strangely, this album is technically more like a Weakerthans record than my first solo album. It is co-produced by Jason Tait, The Weakerthans drummer, along with my partner, Christine Fellows, and also features Greg Smith, The Weakerthans bass player, and much of it was recorded by Weakerthans sound tech Cam Loeppky. But in other ways it feels very different. It is a bit of a sprawler at 15 songs, which is unusual for me, and is mostly acoustic and spare, and was recorded in home studios over a really long Winnipeg winter.'



Also, The last song is called Virtute at Rest I can't deal with this

Album Rating: 5.0

Excited beyond belief for more JKS but there's still lyrics on here that puzzle me

i got no idea about what half of these songs mean but the writing is just beaut

btw if you havent already look at the title of the last track on the new JKS album ;)

Album Rating: 5.0

like prescience of dawn eludes me but i can just tell it'll destroy me when i get it, more than it already destroys me

Album Rating: 4.0

Samson is by far my favorite lyricist of all time and Virtute Explains Her Departure tears me up every time, new solo album will be a ride

Album Rating: 5.0

I remember the first time I listened to this album I spent a good few minutes on each song trying to crack the meaning behind each metaphor and line, only to give up. I then became lazy and scrolled down on the lyrics page to see someone say something along the lines of "Over time the meaning behind each song on the album will become understandable, with each listen you begin to understand more from each song"



Which is so true. It's such a good feeling when Samson's lyrics hit you, bumped this album from one of my least listened to 4.5's to perhaps my joint favourite album of all time.

Album Rating: 5.0

Mother, mother may I cry

Father will you teach me how to die the right way someday

I don't want a second chance to turn my stuttering reluctance into romance

Sounds like something I need to check

Album Rating: 5.0

Check it! Album is essential & looks like the sort of thing you'd dig

Thanks man, will do. It was already on my list of stuff to check, but I've bumped it up the list haha

Ov since you had your ratings wiped I can never tell if you're being sarcastic or if you genuinely like something haha

Album Rating: 5.0

I don't get how an album can be this perfect



gives me that ...fuk feeling on every listen