The Tragically Hip

[fox69]

"Something On"

"Something On"



Your imagination's having puppies
It could be a video for new recruits
Just stare into the camera
And pretend that you've got the flu
Or dreams of impossible vacations
And get all teary from the wind
Look as though you're standing at the station
Long after the train came in

And see how the space tautens
Like there's something on
And you're never more hot then
When you've got something on

Picture a century of water
Bury the pipeline guy right here
Kill the dream of possible vacations
With the sweep of a mapping pioneer
Outside there's hectic action
The ice is covering the trees
And one of them is interconnecting
With my Chevrolet Caprice

Black out to phantom power
And like there's nothing on
And hammering the tower
And now there's nothing on

We'll ride the monorail
Rocking gently home on the trail
You want to show me the moon

I know you're standing at the station
I know there's nothing on
I know that alienation
I know the train's long gone

I can see how your face tautens
Like you've got something on
It makes me feel just rotten
But you've got something on

 

[fox69]

"Speed River"

"Speed River"



You're visually
Stunning, I'm almost shivering
You'd become
Anyone, don't hate who you have to be

Speed river take me away
Speed river take me away
Speed river take me away

Hard stuff
Give me a dose of the hard stuff
Okay, enough
Okay, enough of the hard stuff

Speed river take me away
Speed river take me away
Speed river take me away
Away from this
Away from this

Awake enough
This feels like I've been here before
You said, "Don't be tough
Let's go back," I said, "Let's go forward"

Speed river take me away
Speed river took you away
Speed river took her away
Away from this
Away this minute

This house
Sounds just like a bomb hit it
It's an old sound
That says, "If you asked me to I'd relive it"

Speed river take me away
Speed river take me away
Speed river take me away
Away from this
Away this minute

Away for one moment
Away from this feeling
From feeling this
Away

Away from this moment
Away from this feeling
From feeling this
Away from this

Away from this moment
Away from this feeling
From feeling this

Away from this moment
Away from this feeling this

 

[fox69]

"Springtime In Vienna"

"Springtime In Vienna"



Instructions from the manual
Could not have been much more plain
The blues are still required
The blues are still required again

Past territorial piss posts
Past whispers in the closets
Past screaming from the rooftops
We live to survive our paradoxes
We live to survive our paradoxes
We live to survive our paradoxes

Men here of the secret
They pass in upholstered silence
They only exist in crisis
They only exist in silence

Past territorial piss posts
Past whispers in the closets
Past screaming from the rooftops
We live to survive our paradoxes
We live to survive our paradoxes
We live to survive our paradoxes
We live to survive our paradoxes
We live to survive our paradoxes
We live to survive our paradoxes

 

[fox69]

"Stay"

"Stay"



You did the best that you could do
You were a great crew
Who tried to nurture and preserve your faith in you
And with the bureau chiefs and the shrugging spies
You could stay but why?

You see a light and then another
And everything you fought for naught is uncovered
You're not a fighter, you're a lover
You got no business in here, brother
So stay, stay

Is it the worst that you could do?
You were a great you
Who tried to nurture and preserve your faith in you
And with the bureau chiefs and the shrugging spies
You could stay and why?

'Cause you see a light and then another
Everything you thought you sought is uncovered
You're a fighter and a lover
And there's no one up above her
So stay, stay

All things being balanced
It's balanced and called balancing
Somewhere beyond everything
And it's being balanced
Not for the sake of balance
But balancing between the throes of learning
And the entire thing
Entirely
Balancing

 

[fox69]

"Streets Ahead"

"Streets Ahead"



You were streets ahead, I couldn't sleep a wink
Staring in the dark, by the light of your skin
At myself sitting, on a suitcase
Or as the sleeping youth, in the upset sleigh

They don't wait
They won't wait
They run with the weather
They don't wait

Listen, you can hear, the sound of the sleigh
The panting of the team, of all runners away
And all the gentle work, of the traces
Their jingle-jangle jerk, destroying all space

They won't wait
They don't wait
They run with the weather
They don't wait
They don't wait
They won't wait
Just stay together
They don't wait

Wait, wait, wait, wait
Please, just stay together

They don't wait
They won't wait
They run with the weather
They don't wait
They don't wait
They won't wait
Just stay together
They don't wait

Wait, wait, wait, wait
Please, just stay together

 

[fox69]

"Summer's Killing Us"

"Summer's Killing Us"



Does summer exist in it's praises?
Does summer exist in it's praises?
Summer lives here in it's praises

Come on up here we got something to show you
Want to show you everything we know
Want to show you we can vanish before you
Want to show you we got our blind roads

And does your family know your wishes?
'Cause this chorus'll do you like the dishes

Summer's killing us
It's just sing, sing, sing all day
It's as if summer existed in it's praises

Come on over I got something to play you
Record sunshine it's the Shadow Band
We can have strictly cactus relations
Telling the waves to stop crashing

And does anybody know your wishes?
'Cause this tune'll do you like the dishes

Summer's killing us
It's just sing, sing, sing all day
It's as if summer just exists in her praises

It's a time for more to happen sooner
A time to be a person you still know
To float a while on your shore power
Till you say, "Canada lost. Go home"

Where summer's killing us
Where we sing, sing, sing, all day
It's as if summer exists here in its praises

Summer exists in a doorway
Summer exists at the fair
Summer is forever changes
Summer's taken me unawares

 

[fox69]

"Take Forever"

"Take Forever"



Whenever a man, whenever a man
Tries to be more like a machine
He breaks down, when I broke down
I always thought I'd go to Calgary

I am, I am, I am, I am in that chair
Hurtling through space
Five hundred hundred miles an hour
And, baby, it could take
Forever
Baby, it could take
Forever

I am, I am
The red light cutting through the clouds
Roar in, I land
All the secrets hide and come back out

I am, I am, I am, I am in that chair
Destroying all space
These are not good hours
And, baby, it could take
Forever
Baby, it could take
Forever

Calgary, to have my heart attack
Calgary, the place to do it, it's a fact
I'm homing in on your broken glow
If you're hurting, no one would ever know

I am, I am, I am, I am in that chair
Hurtling through space
These are not good hours
And, baby, it could take
Forever
Baby, it could take
Forever

Baby, it could take
Baby, it could take
Baby, you could take
Forever

 

[fox69]

"The Bastard"

"The Bastard"



If you ask me how I knew, I saw you
I had a bird's eye view of a bird's eye view, I saw you
I saw you not as you think, simply just as you, I saw you

And all of this augers well
Even though it's presaging pell-mell
All of it augers well

This is the bastard (of it being having to choose)
We've got the bastard (of it being having to choose)
This is the bastard

Then you turned all Billy Sunday
Shouting, "Philadelphia for Christ and Christ for Philadelph-i-a"
As the sun groomed the plane with crepuscular rays, when I saw you

And all of this augers well
Even so it's presaging pell-mell
And all of it augers well

This is the bastard (of it being having to choose)
This is the bastard (of it being having to choose)
This is the bastard

Being having to choose
Between a flickering fuse
And power beyond what you use

Never mind us purple italians
Never mind that pool in the mountains
Wictory came and went on winged elephants, I saw you

And all of this augers well
Even though, even so, it's presaging pell-mell
All of it augers well

This is the bastard (of it being having to choose)
This is the bastard (of it being having to choose)
This is the bastard (of it being having to choose)
(Of it being having to choose)
(Of it being having to choose)
This is the bastard (of it being having to choose)
This is the bastard
This is the bastard

 

[fox69]

"The Bear"

"The Bear"



I was first attracted by your scent
Your heart must be a caramelised onion
By the time I saw your flame
It was all over for you and what's his name

I think it was Algonquin park
It was so cold and winter dark
A promised hibernation high
Took me across the great black plate of ice

Now I'm the islander

I found a place to call my den
And dreamt of the ferry and the enormous man
Huge as were his children
Following around after him

I'm the islander
I woke up in the furtive spring
More capable of anything

I waited for more men to come
They docked their boats and cocked their guns
The time for truth and reconciliation's gone
But with my belly full I intended to get something done

I'm the islander
I woke up in the dead of spring
More hungry than anything
I'm the islander
I'm the islander

 

[fox69]

"The Completists"

"The Completists"



You lured me with your diamond flower
You lured me with talk of still more talk
You lured me with caramelising power
You lured me a lot

Clearly lifeless bare feet
And dogs just trained to sniff
You saw him struggle
Then you saw him cease his struggling
You said, we're half way, come and meet us
We're the completists

You lured me with your bad intentions
You lured me with your Mexican pot
You lured me with desert dimensions
You lured me a lot

You loaded up your gear so well
You can pack so tight
But I can still hear your tambourine
Demeaning you through the night
I don't want to sound defeatist
But we're the completest

Intimate, inaccurate, a family in a way
Intimate, inaccurate, a family in a way
Made the trip to vulnerable and back on the same day
I don't want to sound defeated

You lured me into repetition
You lured me to want to go to sleep
You lured me into open spaces
You lure me

Clearly lifeless bare feet
And dogs just trained to sniff
You showed him struggle
Then you showed him cease his struggling
You said, we're half way, come and meet us
We're the completists
We're half way, come and meet us
The completest