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it's november in toronto and I'm driving down lakeshore boulevard
my favourite street in this city yeah I celebrate every single part
down underneath the gardiner feels like the mines of moria
and west along the island all lit up for christmas evokes euphoria

I love the sunset near parkside where you pass the white footbridge
the junction around york, yeah I'll admit, is a bit dangerous
sometimes I'll pretend I'm a race car driver down along the beach
and I always feel happier as I push further east

cos it usually means I'm going to see my friends nathan and anne
we play board games and tell stories and hang with their kitty cats
it's as close to family in this city that I have
there I feel content, I feel happy, I feel relaxed

I read recently about a company called sidewalk labs
gonna revamp all the space along the lake and it looks pretty bad
lot of people gonna get fucked over, lot of lives gonna get really hard
and I guarantee they'll fuck with my beloved lakeshore boulevard

the oldest section of the road out east near cherry beach
it's like driving over moguls on a hill for downhill skiing
if you take em too fast you'll hit your head on the car ceiling
shit like that usually makes me mad but this one gives me the greatest feeling

and when I'm going home after a night at my friends place
lakeshore is quiet I can cross the city in the time it takes
to listen to one song like bay of kotor by sun kil moon
and to my candles and my cats and my guitar I'll be home soon

I'll play a little bit before I go to bed
helps me settle down, helps me drown out everything
that I can't figure out, that I can't process and fit
into a map of everything that I have inside my head

some of my favourite places on the map are on lakeshore
like the park where in the summer we build fires and drink wine and eat smores
and the campus where I teach some perfect young people or
the greek restaurant in mimico overlooking the water

it's a bit strange to write a song about a road
but roads connect us and it's connection that I desperately hold

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from Coral Linus: Memories of the World That Was, released December 23, 2020

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Tyler Shipley was the founding member of the Consumer Goods (theconsumergoods.bandcamp.com) and now performs as a solo artist.

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