Return To Onion Lake

from Prize For Writing by Matthew Grimson

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RETURN TO ONION LAKE

Why don’t you go back to Onion Lake?

A world where you always fit in

They don’t cop to that Moose Jaw attitude
And all of that jiving around

Well, I broke down in Turtleford

And I hitched a ride south in a K-car
The driver said he’d take me to Buzzard
But he drove me instead to Onion Lake

Well, I was drinking in Smiley

And we heard about a party in Druid
I passed out in the back seat en route
And I woke up alone in Onion Lake

Why don’t you go back to Onion Lake?
You never fit in around here

You can go down to Lloydminster weekly
And dance with the big city girls

Well, I met a shy girl in White Fox
Stamping letters at a penny a shot

She told me she came from Carrot River
But the tag on her wig said Onion Lake

She told me about a drifter from Forgon
Who got a job in Uranium City

He was making 60 K per annum

‘Til they found his head
In a mailbox in Onion Lake

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from Prize For Writing, released August 7, 2020
Matthew Grimson: vocals, guitar, bass
Andrew Scott: drums

Clive McNutt: slide guitar

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Matthew Grimson Nova Scotia

Matthew Grimson was a gifted and singular songwriter who died in 2018 at the age of 50, leaving behind an enormous body of idiosyncratic work, much of which was never released. Matthew was a unique visionary—as sensitive, uncompromising, funny, and fearless in his art as he was in his life. Of his music, Matthew wrote: “Here lay psychological metal, verbose pop, queasy balladry, and odd trips.” ... more

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