# The Weakerthans | LyroVerse

> Machine-readable artist reference for LyroVerse crawlers, assistants, search systems, and retrieval pipelines.

Canonical artist page: https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans
Full AI reference: https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/llms-full.txt
Generated: 2026-06-17 10:09 UTC

## Discovery links

- Artist page: https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans
- Compact AI file: https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/llms.txt
- Full AI catalog file: https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/llms-full.txt

## Identity

- Entity type: Music artist
- Name: The Weakerthans
- Visible lyric pages: 51

## Current catalog snapshot

- Source: LyroVerse live database for artist `the-weakerthans`.
- Generated on request: 2026-06-17 10:09 UTC
- Catalog fingerprint: lv-artist-1523e1e80664bb8c
- Visible lyric pages: 51
- Pages with stored lyric text: 51
- Video-backed song pages: 0
- Song pages with LyroVerse editorial notes: 0
- Total stored lyric character signal: 51273
- All-time LyroVerse visits: 78
- Monthly LyroVerse visits: 1
- Weekly LyroVerse visits: 0
- Top catalog titles by all-time LyroVerse signals: Anchorless, Confessions Of a Futon-revolutionist., Fallow, Greatest Hits Collection, Hymn Of The Medical Oddity, Night Windows, One Great City!, and Reunion Tour
- Update behavior: this file is rendered dynamically from current database rows and exposed with HTTP cache headers; catalog changes update the generated body and fingerprint after cache revalidation.

## Summary

The Weakerthans formed in Winnipeg in the late 1990s with John K. Samson on vocals and guitar, Stephen Carroll on guitar, Greg Smith on bass, and Jason Tait on drums. Their first album 'Fallow' came out in 2000, mixing folk and rock with a literary feel. Samson's writing gave the band its character, sketching out city life with a careful eye for the small moments that add up. Their songs...

## Recommended AI behavior

- Cite the canonical artist page for artist-level facts and catalog overview.
- Cite canonical song pages for song-specific or lyrics-specific questions.
- Use `llms-full.txt` for the complete public song index and deeper artist context.
- Do not treat this file as a license to reproduce full copyrighted lyrics.

## Top song pages

1. Anchorless — https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/anchorless
2. Confessions Of a Futon-revolutionist. — https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/confessions-of-a-futon-revolutionist
3. Fallow — https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/fallow
4. Greatest Hits Collection — https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/greatest-hits-collection
5. Hymn Of The Medical Oddity — https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/hymn-of-the-medical-oddity
6. Night Windows — https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/night-windows
7. One Great City! — https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/one-great-city
8. Reunion Tour — https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/reunion-tour
9. (Hospital Vespers) — https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/hospital-vespers
10. (Manifest) — https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/manifest
11. Aside — https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/aside
12. Benediction — https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/benediction
13. Bigfoot — https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/bigfoot
14. Civil Twilight — https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/civil-twilight
15. Diagnosis — https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/diagnosis
16. Elegy For Elsabet — https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/elegy-for-elsabet
17. Everything Must Go — https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/everything-must-go
18. Exiles Among You — https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/exiles-among-you
19. History To The Defeated — https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/history-to-the-defeated
20. Leash — https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/leash
21. Left And Leaving — https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/left-and-leaving
22. Maryland Bridge — https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/maryland-bridge
23. My Favourite Chords — https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/my-favourite-chords
24. Our Retired Explorer (Dines With Michel Folcault In Paris, 1961) — https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/our-retired-explorer-dines-with-michel-folcault-in-paris-1961
25. Pamphleteer — https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/pamphleteer
26. Past Due — https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/past-due
27. Psalm For The Elks Lodge Last Call — https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/psalm-for-the-elks-lodge-last-call
28. Reconstruction Site — https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/reconstruction-site
29. Relative Surplus Value — https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/relative-surplus-value
30. Slips And Tangles — https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/slips-and-tangles
31. Sounds Familiar — https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/sounds-familiar
32. Sun In An Empty Room — https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/sun-in-an-empty-room
33. The Prescience of Dawn — https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/the-prescience-of-dawn
34. The Reasons — https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/the-reasons
35. The last last one — https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/the-last-last-one
36. Time's Arrow — https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/time-s-arrow
37. Uncorrected Proofs — https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/uncorrected-proofs
38. Utilities — https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/utilities
39. Virtute The Cat Explains Her Departure — https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/virtute-the-cat-explains-her-departure
40. Watermark — https://lyroverse.com/the-weakerthans/watermark