The Tragically Hip

[fox69]

"Queen Of The Furrows"

"Queen Of The Furrows"



Win Toronto
yelled the Queen of the Furrows
This is how we farm
hens cluck and roosters crow

You are my heart
staring down from the pillar
To be apart
is that why you have to go

To conversations city
everybody's talking
You must have something to say
To conversations sitting
everybody's talking
Working at it night and day
Watch your self

I say to my toasted west
This is how I feel
And it is when I learn the most
you are my heart
You are my Queen of the Furrows
this is how i feel
hens cluck and roosters crow

In the night feels
everything's dark yellow
I make my way by feel
by my neighbors glow

You are my heart
oh my Queen of the Furrows
This is how i farm
eyes up and ears down low
You are my heart
You're my Queen of the Furrows
this how i feel
Hens cluck and roosters crow

But in conversation city
Everybody's talking
you must have something to say
Conversation city
making conversation
Working at it night and day

You are my heart
oh my Queen of the Furrows
This is how i farm
eyes up and ears down low
You are my heart
You're my Queen of the Furrows
this how i feel
Hens cluck and roosters crow

You are my heart
this is how i feel

 

[fox69]

"Save The Planet"

"Save The Planet"



The man 'cross the street he don't move a muscle
Though he's all covered in dust
When constitutions of granite can't save the planet
What's to become of us?

With a painted restraint I don't move a muscle
Though a turbine roars
If the bathwater's clear and my ear's underwater
It's a tolerant hum from the core

Sleep's beckoning from the depths
From the cracks and from the crevices
Join the army of ghosts, the murmurs in the mist

That's when the powers of observation
Come to the periphery town
And we'd carry their water
We don't make a sound

And after gaining our resignation
They come through the chain link fence
Your only enemy's panic
Your only chance is to start making sense

Sleep plunging into deeper debt
Inter bunkers and black minarets
On a geyser of ink, a morning voice faint and yet

And it sounds heroincredible
Sound that makes the headphones edible
Awake, affiliated and indelible

The man 'cross the street don't move a muscle
Though he's all covered in dust
Says constitutions of granite can't save the planet
What's left to captivate us? (What's to become of us?)
What's left to captivate us? (What's to become of us?)
What's left to captivate us? (What's to become of us?)

What's to become of us?

 

[fox69]

"Scared"

"Scared"



I could make you scared, if you want me to
I'm not prepared, but if I have to
He said, I can make you scared, it's kind of what I do
If you're prepared, here's what I propose to do

You're in Russia and a more than a million works of art
Are whisked out to the woods
When the Nazis find the whole place dark
They'll think god's left the museum for good

I can make you scared, if that's what I do
If you're prepared, and if I have to
If I make you scared, and you pay me to
That's the deal, now here's what I can do for you

Now there's a focus group that can prove
This is all nothing but cold calculation

Tests have shown that suspicious are hostile
Their lives need not be shortened
Truth be told, they can live a long, long while
Tickled to death by their importance

If you can make me scared, if that's what you do
If I'm unclear, can I get out of this thing with me and you
If you feel scared, and a bit confused
I got to say, this sounds a little beyond anything I'm used to

Now there's a precious few that can prove at the root
This is all nothing but cold calculation

Clearly entranced, you're heading back now
Defanged destroyer limps into the bay
Down at the beach it's attracting quite a crowd
As kids wade through the blood out to it to play

Okay, you made me scared, you did what you set out to do
I'm not prepared, you really had me going there for a minute or two
He said, you made me scared too, I wasn't sure I was getting through
I got to go, it's been a pleasure doing business with you

 

[fox69]

"Sharks"

"Sharks"



Sharks don't attack the Irish
It's mostly Australians
There's nothing accomplished
By these splashing citizens
From the moon down to the surface
Of the Mariana's trench

I won't send you in a cab when
I can take you there myself then
Steal a look over your shoulder
At the distant lights of your firmament

When the shark's finished the Irish
And those people from Berlin
We left our look of the landed
With one of rescue's imminent
From the moon down to the surface
Of the Mariana's trench

I won't send you in a cab when
I can take you there myself then
Steal a look over your shoulder
At the chandeliers of your firmament
It's your firmament, baby

 

[fox69]

"She Didn't Know"

"She Didn't Know"



Born a queen up on her side and she felt it too
There's a lot you can see when there's nothing to do
She got down on her knees and she dug herself out
Slipping to the east side and prancing about

Learn a language, baby, it's that kind of place
Low card is hunger and high card is taste
And trouble is small change when Daddy's around
You know that she learned a lesson when she happened down

She didn't know, the barrel was loaded
She didn't know, the barrel was loaded
She didn't know, the barrel was loaded
She didn't know

One eye on the table, one eye on the floor
She got beat for her pride with her back to the door
She be digging the spotlight and called it her own
But you know it's over when everyone's gone

She didn't know, the barrel was loaded
She didn't know, the barrel was loaded
She didn't know, the barrel was loaded
She didn't know, well, how could she know?

Stealing seconds together, the day is the night
And you can fly your own colours as long as they're right
The trigger invites you and so do the boys
But if there ain't no one listening when there ain't no noise

She didn't know, the barrel was loaded
She didn't know, the barrel was loaded
She didn't know, the barrel was loaded
She didn't know

Well, she didn't know, the barrel was loaded
She didn't know, the barrel was loaded
She didn't know, the barrel was loaded
She didn't know
She didn't know
She didn't know

 

[fox69]

"Sherpa"

"Sherpa"



Me and the vivid girl
In our hammock to the stars
Staring into the fire before TV
The remote control's on Mars

In the dope of the pigment
In a poetic state of mind
In a flood of the country
We lay down to kill some time

And we spoke languidly
Of the northern bee
And collecting dewdrops for tea
Underneath the cannonball tree

We were high, we were sherpa high
We conspired against old friends
We said we must be friends or die
And we've died a thousand times since then

And we spoke long, at length
Of the fight or flee
And of nothing in particularly
Underneath the cannonball tree

We spoke offhandedly
Of the new extremes
And of nothing in particularly
Underneath the cannonball tree

We're at the point where we love or hate it
We can write it down and obliterate it
When we're at the point when we neither love nor hate it
We can lay down and obliterate it

 

[fox69]

"Silver Jet"

"Silver Jet"



There's a still in the night, a tuneless moonlight
Just the I-need-you-and-here's-whys of snoring Gords and Cheryls
There's a heron outside, in violet light
There's an urge to go, a shadow, a heightened air of peril

Your heart jumps to
And my heart jumps too
I think to myself "I don't really know my heart"
As you whisper "me too"

A silver jet roars overhead
Rocks the nocturne all everglade and grey sheers
A silver jet, so far off already
Fought the hot spurs off all the way to Cape Spear

It's quiet again, when a car like Big Ben
The radio dopplering, for all you Gregory Peck fans
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
To take some pressure off the wonderous to fight and

Your heart jumps to
And my heart jumps too
As if the Wolves of Northhumberland themselves
Were rumoured to be en route

A silver jet, way overhead
You're an archipelago, a satellite, a green star
A silver jet, so far off already
With your I-need-you-and-here's-why flying to the next part

Your heart jumps to
And my heart jumps too
I'm thinking to myself "packing is a secret art"
And as you whisper "me too"

A silver jet roars overhead
A silver jet, flying to the next part
A silver jet, so far off already
A silver jet, a satellite, a green star
A silver jet, way overhead
A silver jet, evergladed grey sheers
A silver jet, so far off already
A silver jet, Clayqout sound to Cape Spear

 

[fox69]

"Skeleton Park"

"Skeleton Park"


In Skeleton Park
One fine summer evening
The sun teased the dark
Like the last strawberry
I could hear them on the breeze
Hear them moving through the trees
The ghosts of the Rideau Canal start to sing
And patting the grass you said
"Come sit next to me, be my sweetheart"
Over in Skeleton Park
Over in Skeleton Park

In Skeleton Park
I couldn't see anything
A raven took the moon
And tucked it under her wing
I could hear them in the rain
Hear them dripping from the leaves
Widows of the Rideau Canal softly sing
And underneath the trees you said
"Please watch over me, you are my heart"
Over in Skeleton Park
Over in Skeleton Park
Hear them sing

In Skeleton Park
My dreams went a scattering
Multiplying light
For all there was to see
And then in the dawn I wept for all them ghosts
And [?] my broken heart
Over in Skeleton Park
Over in Skeleton Park
Meet me in Skeleton Park
Over in Skeleton Park
Hear them sing

 

[fox69]

"Small Town Bringdown"

"Small Town Bringdown"



Been to Reno
Drives an El Camino
Can you dig that style?
Hip canteen
You always make the scene
You're a crazy child

It's a sad thing, bourbon's all around
To stop that feeling when you're living in a small town
You're long and lean but things don't get you down
You're a top ten kingpin in the borders of your hometown

Can't get hip
You work the jobs I've quit
Don't you dig that style?
You won't admit
You just don't give a shit
'Cause your mind's gone wild

It's a sad thing, bourbon's all around
To stop that feeling when you're living in a small town
You're long and lean but things don't get you down
You're a top ten kingpin in the borders of your hometown

Can't live to die, too easy
Why stick around?
I want my live to please me
Not another small town hometown bringdown

This is it
You might as well get pissed
Don't you dig that style?
Make your trip
There ain't that much to miss
When your mind's gone wild

It's a sad thing, bourbon's all around
To stop that feeling when you're living in a small town
You're long and lean but things don't get you down
You're a top ten kingpin in the borders of your hometown

Within the borders of your hometown
Within the borders of your hometown
Your hometown
Your hometown
Your hometown, yeah

 

[fox69]

"So Hard Done By"

"So Hard Done By"



Interesting and sophisticated
Refusing to be celebrated
It's a monumental big screen kiss
It's so deep it's meaningless

One day you'll just up and quit
And that'll be it
Just then the stripper stopped in a coughing fit
She said, "Sorry, I can't go on with this"

Yeah, that's awful close but that's not why
I'm so hard done by

It was true cinema-a-clef
You should see it before there's nothing left
In an epic too small to be tragic
You'll have to wait a minute 'cause it's an instamatic

Yeah, that's awful close but that's not why
I'm so hard done by

Just then the room became more dimly lit
As the MC carried on with it
And now that I've got you all strangely compelled
I'm afraid Candy's not feeling well

Close but that's not why
I'm so hard done by