The Tragically Hip

[fox69]

"Now The Struggle Has A Name"

"Now The Struggle Has A Name"



Now, the apology done
Applause can begin
Now, the apologies done
Applause begins

If it bleeds it leads
If it cries it flies
If it feeds a need
If it dies, it dies

Now the struggle has a name
It doesn't fade, it hasn't changed
I still feel the same
Now the struggle has a name

And Honey Watson
I struggle on

Oh, Honey Watson
We were born with sin
Some truth, some reconciliation
And gone with the wind

If it feeds the need
If it dies, it dies

Now the struggle has a name
We are the same, it hasn't changed
I still feel the same
Now the struggle has a name

Honey Watson
I struggle on

Gone, like an attraction
Like the sun in a mirror
Gone, like it was destined
To simply disappear

Gone, like Honey Watson
Applause can begin
The song is almost done
Applause begins

Now the struggle has a name
It doesn't fade, it hasn't changed
I still feel the same
Now the struggle has a name

Now the struggle has a name
We are the same, it hasn't changed
I still feel the same
Now the struggle has a name

And Honey Watson
I struggle on

 

[fox69]

"On The Verge"

"On The Verge"



Here we are now where are we?
It's like nothing I've ever seen

We got horse throated huckster's whispered gimmicks
Rubbernecking all the curious cynics
And headlong walkers, one born every minute
Do I plug it in or do I stick it in it?

Well, I don't know what came over me
I'm too dumb for words
Well, I didn't think I'd like it here at all
But I swear, I swear I'm on the verge

Here we are now who are you?
The long lost gueens of some hoodoo?

Well, we're the last of the big time penetrators
Playing dead to fuck the undertaker
The movie'll come out a little bit later
The Men, The Legend, The Goat, The Saytr

Well, I don't know what came over me
I'm too dumb for words
Well, I didn't say I'd like it here at all
But I swear, I swear I'm on the verge
I'm on the verge
I'm on the verge
I'm on the verge
I'm on the verge

Here we are now don't ask how
The time to leave was kind of now

Well, don't cry, baby, there's no cause for grief
Deadheading's never going to kill the chief
It's an empty road without relief
And I'm a highway romance milking thief

Well, I don't know what came over me
I'm too dumb for words
Well, I didn't think I'd like it here at all
But I swear, I swear I'm on the verge

I'm too dumb for words
Well, I didn't think I'd like it here at all
But I swear, I swear I'm on the verge
I'm on the verge
I'm on the verge
I'm on the verge
I'm on the verge

 

[fox69]

"One Night In Copenhagen"

"One Night In Copenhagen"



When the drugs hit you
Tingly begins
Conviction plus tone equals hope
Under the threat of separation

The nadir's fluorescent
The shriek of a gull suspended in air
The sound of the sea
Anywhere, anywhere

When the drugs quit you
As loyal as a fruit fly you'll mutter to yourself
"You talentless fuck
Good fucking luck, good fucking luck"

A delicatessen
Shriek of a horn suspended in air
The sound of the town
Anywhere, anywhere

It quits you in situ
And here it begins
Quits you at a payphone
In the snow
One night in Copenhagen
One night in Copenhagen

And you know the nadir's fluorescent
The shriek of a gull suspended in air
The sound of the town
Anywhere, anywhere, anywhere

 

[fox69]

"Opiated"

"Opiated"



He bought two fifths of lead free gasoline
Said the bottle is dusty but my engine is clean
He bought a nice blue suit with the money he could find
If his bride didn't like it Saint Peter wouldn't mind

But now I lie here so out of breath and over opiated
Maybe I couldn't catch up, no, but maybe he could have waited

Well, the medicine man started seeing red
You think the snake just dreams up the poison in his head
Well, addicted to approval, addicted to the air
It was see if you like it or see you on up there

But now I lie here so out of breath and over opiated
Maybe I couldn't catch up, no, but maybe he could have waited

Now I lie here so out of breath and over opiated
Maybe I couldn't catch up, no, but maybe he could have waited

Now I lie here so out of breath and over opiated
Maybe I couldn't catch up, no, but maybe he could have waited
Maybe he could have waited
Maybe he could have waited

 

[fox69]

"Pigeon Camera"

"Pigeon Camera"



It was handsome at the auction
Oh but when we got it home
It grew up into
Something we could no longer contain

Where's our pigeon camera
By now he could be anywhere
And after all that training
And after all that training
Was something we could no longer contain

It's boring (boring)
I'm embarrassed (embarrassed of it)
I don't endorse that (slammed in my face)
I didn't want this

This house it has it politics
Over there that's my room
And that's my sister's
And that's my sister
With something we could no longer contain

It's boring (boring)
I'm embarrassed (embarrassed of it)
I don't endorse that (slammed in my face)
I didn't want this (boring)

It's horrific (boring)
I'm embarrassed (embarrassed of it)
I didn't want that (slammed in my face)
I didn't want this

It's like we burned our boots
With no contingency plan

 

[fox69]

"Poets"

"Poets"



Spring starts when a heartbeat's pounding
When the birds can be heard above the reckoning carts doing some final accounting
Lava flowing in Superfarmer's direction
He's been getting reprieve from the heat in the frozen food section

Don't tell me what the poets are doing
Don't tell me that they're talking tough
Don't tell me that they're anti-social
Somehow not anti-social enough, all right

And porn speaks to it's splintered legions
To the pink amid the withered cornstalks in them winter regions
While aiming at the archetypal father
He said with such broad and tentative swipes why do you even bother?

Don't tell me what the poets are doing
Those Himalayas of the mind
Don't tell me what the poet's been doing
In the long grasses over time

Don't tell me what the poets are doing
On the street and the epitome of vague
Don't tell me how the universe is altered
When you find out how he gets paid, all right

If there's nothing more that you need now
The lawn cut by bare breasted women
Beach bleached towels within reach for the women
Got to make it, that'll make it by swimming

 

[fox69]

"Pretend"

"Pretend"



If I ask you a question
Are you going to lie to me?
Is that your question?
Because that one is easy

It's gripping the city
And hitting the town
And no one on earth is
Doing this now

If you can pretend
And I can pretend
Pretending won't end
And then and well then

If you take the chances
I'll take the bows
Saying, "No one on earth is
Doing this now"

But if I ask you a question
Are you going to lie to me?
Is that your question?
Because that one is easy

If you don't pretend
And I don't pretend
Pretending might end
But pretend can pretend to end, that's right

You can't pretend
Yes, I can, yes, I can, yes, I can
You can't pretend
Yes, I can, yes, I can, yes, I can

You can't pretend
Yes, I can, yes, I can, yes, I can
You can't pretend
Yes, I can, yes, I can, yes, I can

 

[fox69]

"Problem Bears"

"Problem Bears"



Writing a song about Lake Memphremagog
And tonight I don't believe
There are words to spare and be a tip and a nod
Admitting it's half the defeat

Tonight the non essential worker
Is hunting the problem bears
One sounds cornered
And one can go no further
And it all sounds like it's happening upstairs

Do you hear that?
Like dry leaves a straggling
Or a guard dog's claws on cement
Or an idea that's getting more determined
To get where it's getting

This might be harder than keeping it simple, yeah
This can be simpler than keeping it real
This might be harder than keeping it simple, yeah
This can be simpler than keeping it real

Shakespeare, you're a drunken savage
Well, you're a sober and green eyed Voltaire
It almost sounds funny
Like two tough talking goalies
Who are really going at it upstairs

This might be harder than keeping it simple, yeah
This can be simpler than keeping it real
This might be harder than keeping it simple, yeah
This can be simpler than keeping it real

Tonight the non essential worker
Takes on the green eyed Voltaire
Who won't go further
Than sounding just like murder
When everything is quiet upstairs

Now do you hear that?
The song of Memphremagog
The shush, shush of his gentle lament
It's maybe a song that can't quite be determined
Till it gets where it's getting

 

[fox69]

"Put It Off"

"Put It Off"



I wrote unfriendly things, truly cruel
On the day that you were born
To prove that words cannot touch beauty
But I was torn

I put it off, I put it off, I put it off again
I put it off, I put it off, I put it off again

I made degenerate art for the religious right
On the day that you were born
I had a passion to experiment
But I was torn

I put it off, I put it off, I put it off again
I put it off, I put it off, I put it off again
I put it off, I put it off, I put it off again

I put it off, I put it off, I put it off, I put it off again
I put it off, I put it off, I put it off again

I played Love Tara by Eric's Trip
On the day that you were born
I had to find the cuteness
In the unadorned

I put it off, I put it off, I put it off again
I put it on, I put it on, I put it on again
I put it on, I put it on, I put it on again
I put it on, I put it on, I put it on again

 

[fox69]

"Putting Down"

"Putting Down"



Held a bird's egg between her breasts
There's reasons for the road I guess
To document the indigenous
To paint and sketch, paint and sketch
I'm starting to fail to be impressed

United state of ricochet
From the boardwalk to the appian way
The diamond files, the corporate raves
You'd practically kill not to be afraid
And I'm starting to choke on the things I say

I'm putting down, I'm putting down, I'm putting down
I'm putting down, I'm putting down, I'm putting down
I'm putting down, I'm putting down, I'm putting down
Down

Browbeaten out from underneath your dress
The documented indigenous
Civilisation flipped its desk
You know the rest, there is no rest
And I'm starting to fail to know what's best

I'm putting down, I'm putting down, I'm putting down
I'm putting down, I'm putting down, I'm putting down
I'm putting down, I'm putting down, I'm putting down
Down, down, down, down, down