We made this album 18 stories above the Gardiner, but I once spent an afternoon beneath it.
lyrics
There's a path under the Gardiner, no one can tell me why it's there; bare clay and asphalt pillars in the shadow of the condo towers. Under the Gardiner Expressway. There's a bit of green space to the north, where they restored the old Fort York: once proud home of the British Cavalry, such a noble host, such gallantry. Had to kill a lot of god's un-people, singing here is the church and here is the steeple, and now the fort is a museum when it ought to be a mausoleum. Yeah I know this was a lazy rhyme but I'm down here just killing time under the Gardiner Expressway with a guy that Canada threw away. His name is Oliver, he's got a blanket he sleeps down here. Nobody gives a shit, barely even notice him. Three middle-class people fly by, out for a leisurely bike ride. Gonna go out and get some exercise, such a wonderful day to be alive! Catch a glimpse of me and Ollie, and Ollie says something a little crazy. Out his mouth, a bit of fluid. Three cyclist days were ruined. Yes, people do sleep on the street or, in this case, underneath. They were making this when they built Fort York in 1793. If you believe everything you read, then Oliver is a beneficiary of a generous welfare state. If he's unhappy, he's an ingrate. We provide equal opportunity: you can sink, or sink, or swim, or sink. And if you sink, there's a bed of cold hard clay under the Gardiner Expressway.
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