David Usher (born on April 24, 1966) is a British-born rock singer-songwriter, and renowned humanist, who lived for a number of years in Montreal, but recently moved to the East Village in Manhattan, New York City. Formerly the frontman of the Canadian band Moist, he more recently embarked on a solo career. David Usher was born in Oxford to an ethnic Chinese Buddhist, artist Samphan Usher and a Jewish Montrealer, Dan Usher, who is an economist at Queen's University.[1] He has relocated to Malaysia, New York, California and Thailand since early childhood before his family settled in Kingston, Ontario. He attended high school at Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute. Attending university at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Usher joined Moist in 1993 and their 1994 debut release, Silver, went quadruple platinum in Canada.
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Forestfire Lyrics

David Usher

What if I were you and you were me
Still cant see the forest fire beyond the trees
Now Im standing in a field of green
The colours burning far as I can see
What do you see
On my tongue the galaxies so small
Here Ill drink it down and watch the world dissolve
Now Im pouring through the universe and slipping
Through the endless stream of time
What would you find
And Im flying floating on the wind again
Hoping it will drag me in
Cant you see Im laughing
Laughing at the consequence
Laughing at this circumstance
Dont you know by now
Wave at all the faces they go by
Faster that we live the more we die
Now Im crashing through the open door and smiling in a most peculiar way
What would you say
And Im falling faster than the waterfall
Opened up and after all
Cant you see Im drowning
Right here in the open air
Wishing I could still go clear
Dont you know by now
Dont you know by now
This is what we are
This is what we are
Dont you know by now
Dont you know by now
This is what we are
This is what we are
Flying floating on the wind again
Im wishing that youd drag me in
Cant you see Im hoping wishing I could see myself
Wishing I was someone else
But dont you know by now
Dont you know by now
This is what we are
This is what we are
Dont you know by now
Dont you know by now
This is what we are
This is what we are
This is what we are
This is what we are
This is what we are
This is what we are
This is what we are
This is what we are...