Here's Halifax music writer Ryan McNutt's defense of the best two lines in Lovers in a Dangerous Time.
The greatest lyric ever penned by a Canadian? Depending on my mood, I'd make a case for it. At the very least, it contains probably the greatest couplet ever written by a Canuck: "Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight / Got to kick at the darkness 'till it bleeds daylight." The Barenaked Ladies removed the 80s reverb and made a bluegrass folk song out of it, but "Lovers" is best in its original form, perfectly capturing the thrill of romance against a background of political and military anxiety.
