Afternoon, see a guy with rubies on his head
And he's shifting like, shifting like he was dead
And he's hearing something she never said
On his way back home, under his bed

When the weight comes down
When the weight comes down

In the night, a girl who doesn't mind her ragged sleeves
Knowing someone soon is gonna grieve
And a man, he tells her a story, she just won't believe
Called "Adam never could do right by Eve"

And the weight comes down
And the weight comes down
And the weight comes down
Down on you, down on me
And a girl walks by the burning bush
She asks, "what's gone wrong here, man?"
And he smiles, and then open wide, wide, wide

In my dreams, a candy coated train comes to my door
With a little girl, I can't have anymore
You know a letter washes up to the shore
That I can not read and I probably should ignore, oh no

When the weight comes down
And the weight comes down
When the weight comes down (when the weight, when the weight comes down)
When the weight comes down (down on me, down on me, down on me, oh no)
When the weight comes down (now I can not breathe, can not breathe, oh)
When the weight comes down (get out, get out, get out, get out, get out)
No, no, no, oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no, no, no, no

Copyright: Peermusic Publishing
Writer(s): Gordon Downie, Gordon Sinclair, Johnny Fay, Paul Langlois, Robert Baker