The Georgia Straight is a free Canadian weekly news and entertainment newspaper published in Vancouver, British Columbia, by the Vancouver Free Press Publishing Corp. As surveyed by VAC its per-issue circulation average as of January 25, 2011, is 119,971 copies, and its average weekly readership is 804,000 as of 2009. Its website traffic ranked 47,339 globally and 1,458 within Canada, according to February 27, 2012 figures from Alexa.
The paper was founded as an underground newspaper in May 1967 by Pierre Coupey,Milton Acorn,Dan McLeod, Stan Persky, and others, and originally it operated as a collective.
The first issue appeared on May 5, 1967 and cost a dime. It was originally a biweekly. On May 12 Dan was taken away in a paddy wagon and jailed for three hours for "investigation of vagrancy." College Printers refused to print the second issue, but an alternative was found.
The paper was raided and fined by the Vancouver Police for publishing obscenities, and was often banned from distribution for its criticism of the local police and politicians, especially Mayor Tom Campbell. Those controversies ended in the 1970s, as the paper moved to become a more conventional news and entertainment weekly, albeit with a progressive editorial slant.
a heart can only break so much
before it has to bleed
i want to split myself open
and bleed it out for you
until the sharp pain washes away
to dull throbs to nothing
i know these things should not be said
the voices in my head
but this is the only remedy
i know that will extinguish this
burning fire inside my heart
how many times will i be beat?
i'll die before they break me
or was i not meant for this earth?
to bleed and bleed again
i want to split myself open
and bleed it out for you
i know these should not be said
and i am so sorry
but this is the only remedy
i know that will extinguish this
burning fire inside my heart
it's you
and me
and you
and a knife
it's you
and me
and you
and a knife
blood, right
blood, right
blood, right
it's my blood spilling tonight
blood, right
blood, right
it's my blood spilling tonight
and it's for good this time
'cause this is the only remedy
i know that will extinguish this
burning fire inside my heart
it's you
and me
and you
and a knife
it's you
and me
and you
and a knife
it's you
and me
and you
and a knife
it's you
and me
and you
and a knife