The Tragically Hip

[fox69]

"Born In The Water"

"Born In The Water"



Rolling hills all covered in suede
I'm heat nervous and out of road
Downtown there's a parade
But I don't think I want to go
Smart as trees in Sault Saint Marie
I can speak my mother tongue
Passing laws, just because
And singing songs Of the English unsung

Well, how could you do it?
Well, how could you even try?
When you were born in the water
And you were raised up in the sky?

Front seat stamped by the window
No erasees in this game
Arbitrary as the wind blows
It's another way to lay claim
Ain't no cause for bloodthirsting
In a little town so dry
Where the angels dance on a pinhead
Just to make room for you and I

Well, how could you do it?
Well, how could you even try?
When you were born in the water
And you were raised up in the sky?

Thoroughbred with their great big heads
Think a mile might be too far
Highway horses laugh but of course
When they don't know where the hell they are
Well, smart as trees in Sault Saint Marie
Victorious mother tounge
Passing laws just because
And singing songs of the English unsung

Well, how could you do it?
Well, how could you even try?
When you were born in the water
And you were raised up

Well, how could you do it?
Well, how could you even try?
When you were born in the water
And you were raised up in the sky?

 

[fox69]

"Bring It All Back"

"Bring It All Back"



I'd been carving you
To see what form you'd take
You were hiding in ivory
I just wanted to free your shape

Bringing me down
It's too quiet to breathe
Who wants to hear their heart
Beat

It's got to be here
In your spiderweb alphabets
Did I read it all wrong?
Have I just not gotten it yet?

You got what you want
You wanted release
Can you be appeased?
Can you bring it all back to me
Bring it all back to me

Bringing me down
The obvious turns out to be true
And all that I couldn't see
How it was turning me on

Oh I don't want to pare you down
Oh I don't want to wear you down
I don't want any more than what's there
Oh I don't want to pare you down

Well, you got what you want
You wanted release
Can you be appeased?
Can you bring it all back to me
Bring it all back to me

Just bring it all back to me
It's all that I want
It's all that I need
It's all that I want

Just bring it all back to me
Bring it
Give it
Bring it

 

[fox69]

"Butts Wigglin"

"Butts Wigglin"



The sweet sound of patent approval
Coming down in a not quite fog
The sweet sound of patent approval
Coming down in powdery sparks

The sweet sound of patent approval
Coming down with holiday concern
The sweet sound of patent approval
Coming down in a world of hurt

In my opinion the drug is ready
In my opinion the drug is ready

The warm hand of abject approval
Coming down with its ropey veins
The warm hand of abject approval
Coming down to the fingerbowl

In my opinion the drug is ready
In my opinion the drug is ready
In my opinion the drug is ready

The cold eye of constant approval
Coming down to freeze the blood
The cold eye of constant approval
Coming down to look real close

In my opinion the drug is ready
In my opinion the drug is ready
In my opinion the drug is ready
In my opinion the drug is ready
In my opinion the drug is ready

 

[fox69]

"Cemetery Sideroad"

"Cemetery Sideroad"



I had a heart but I used to be older
I'm not like I used to be
I had you but I guess it's all over
You talk but you're not like me

You talk and you talk like some weird saint
What do you think that we could taint?
When you're nothing I am and I'm something you ain't

So hold me until the night makes colder
Tell me how life's made you bad
Kick me when I choke and I smoulder
When I'm not what you had

You talk and you talk like some weird saint
What do you think that we could taint?
When you're nothing I am and I'm something you ain't

I'm looking for a cemetery sideroad
I'm screaming like a lighthouse lamp
I'm chasing after what I think that I'm owed
Like a French foreign legion tramp

You swim in an ocean that's storming
You eat when the wolves all do
You ache like a mother in mourning
When you're left alone with you

Hhold me until the night makes colder
Tell me how life's made you bad
Kick me when I choke and I smoulder
When I'm not what you had

You talk and you talk like some weird saint
What do you think that we could taint?
When you're nothing I am and I'm something you ain't

I'm looking for a cemetery sideroad
I'm screaming like a lighthouse lamp
I'm chasing after what I think that I'm owed
Like a French foreign legion tramp

I'm looking for a cemetery sideroad
I'm screaming like a lighthouse lamp
I'm chasing after what I think that I'm owed
Like a French foreign legion tramp

Cemetery sideroad
Cemetery sideroad
Cemetery sideroad
Cemetery sideroad

 

[fox69]

"Chagrin Falls"

"Chagrin Falls"



By design, by neglect
For a fact or just for effect
When they met, where they connect
At the confluence of travel and sex
More a trip than a quest
Plunged into the deeply freckled breast
Where to now? If I had to guess
I'm afraid to say Antarctica's next

Or Chagrin Falls, Ohio
Where the unknown won't even go
To Chagrin Falls, Ohio
Where the unknown don't even go

Home's solitude with options
Artificial chaos isn't one of them
Return there crestfallen
Chagrin fell out of her apron
No profound sound, no special effects
The continent tipped and she just quietly left
Chagrin falls on our heads
Not in a gush but in maddening droplets

Chagrin falls (in Chagrin Falls, Ohio)
Chagrin Falls (where the unknown don't even go)
Chagrin falls (in Chagrin Falls, Ohio)
So falls Chagrin Falls (where the unknown don't even go)
So falls Chagrin Falls
So falls Chagrin Falls

 

[fox69]

"Coconut Cream"

"Coconut Cream"



There's a cannon shooting coconut cream
Forty gallons in a steady stream
There's a cannon shooting coconut cream
Forty gallons in a steady stream
Dream, stream, dream

It's wing music to a happy cat
He likes his butterflies slow and fat
And wing music to a happy cat
He likes his butterflies slow and fat
Cat, fat, cat

Us little Christians in a circle jerk
Until our daddy gets home from work
All us good Christians in a circle jerk
Until our daddy gets home from work
Jerk, work, jerk

There's a cannon shooting coconut cream
Forty gallons in a steady stream
There's a cannon shooting coconut cream
Forty gallons in a steady stream
Dream, cream, stream

 

[fox69]

"Coffee Girl"

"Coffee Girl"



It's hard to leave your bed
The cooling hot summer sheets
Hangover hanging on by the fangs
Walk to work on wild feet

And get to the back door
Look around then turn the key
Turn on all the lights
Take down the chairs and make things neat

Hey there coffee girl
Beautiful and disaffected
It was perfect till
He came along and wrecked it

Your favorite mix tape
You popped it into the deck
Don't care it's out of date
Old Cat Power and classic Beck

Beware purveyors of cool
With their compacts of one
Taking canons to fools
When all you need's a BB gun

Hey there coffee girl
Beautiful and disaffected
It was perfect till
He came along and wrecked it

One night he'll make you choose
I am sorry but he will
The hardscape or your shoes
When the moon's behind the hill

Hey there coffee girl
Beautiful and disaffected
It was perfect till
He came along and wrecked it

Hey there coffee girl
Hey there coffee girl
Hey there coffee girl
Hey there coffee girl

 

[fox69]

"Cordelia"

"Cordelia"



Angst on the planks, spitting from a bridge
Just to see how far down it really is
Robbing a bank, jumping from a train
Old antiques a man alone can entertain

It takes all your power
To prove that you don't care
I'm not Cordelia
I will not be there
I will not be there
I will not be there

Tin can man, dragging from a car
Just to see how alive you really are
Marrying words, falling in your wake
Just to tell what you can't eliminate

It takes all your power
To prove that you don't care
I'm not Cordelia
I will not be there

Treading the boards, screaming out Macbeth
Just to see how much bad luck you really get
Jump in the ring with your hidden cape
The bull can't decide what it is that he really hates

It takes all your power
To prove that you don't care
I'm not Cordelia
I will not be there
I will not be there
I will not be there

Angst on the planks, spitting from a bridge
Just to see how far down it really is
Robbing a bank, jumping from a train
Old antiques a man alone can entertain

It takes all your power
To prove that you don't care
I'm not Cordelia
I will not be there
I will not be there
I will not be there

Thief lingers on, on his hands and knees
Must be one more thing here I really need
Die in your dreams, falling on your knife
A thief blinded on the job has to steal for life

It takes all your power
To prove that you don't care
I'm not Cordelia
I will not be there
I will not be there
I will not be there
I will not be there

 

[fox69]

"Country Day"

"Country Day"



Country day
A day in the unknown
A gentle breeze gently blowin'
Country day

We're Mr and Mrs Smoke and thing are finally clickin'
Still having trouble with the things that aren't meaningful
But ya really clickin'
Our dreams are where we at
What we can see and touch
With work we understand
We don't want for much

Country day
A day in the unknown
A gentle breeze gently blowin
Country day
Country day
Another day in the unknown
I can feel it in my bones
Country day

You infiltrate my life
You resonate with meaning
I wrote I love you on a rock one night
And threw it never dreaming
Now our dreams are where we're at
What we can feel and touch
Its work we understand
We don't want for much

Country day
A day in the unknown
A gentle breeze gently blowin
Country day
Country day
Another day in the unknown
I can feel it deep in my bones
Country day

And that rock
It missed your head
Through it didn't miss by much
I remember what you said
No i mean it
I am touched
And somehow it is enough
So god keep our land
Cuz we certainly can't
Until the darkness ends
Until the sun tries again
Our dreams are where we're at
What we can smell and touch
Work we understand
We don't want too much

Country day
A day in the unknown
A gentle breeze gently blowin
Country day
Country day
Another day in the unknown
Drawing gently to a close
Country day

 

[fox69]

"Courage (For Hugh Maclennan)"

"Courage (For Hugh Maclennan)"



Watch the band through a bunch of dancers
Quickly, follow the unknown
With something more familiar
Quickly, something familiar

Courage, my word
It didn't come, it doesn't matter

Sleepwalk, so fast asleep
In a motel that has the lay of home
And piss on all of your background
And piss on all your surroundings

Courage, my word
It didn't come, it doesn't matter
Courage, your word
It didn't come, it doesn't matter
Courage, my word
It didn't come, it doesn't matter
Courage, it couldn't come at a worse time

There's no simple
Explanation
For anything important
Any of us do
And, yeah, the human
Tragedy
Consists in
The necessity
Of living with
The consequences
Under pressure
Under pressure

Courage, my word
It didn't come, it doesn't matter
Courage, your word
It didn't come, it doesn't matter
Courage, my word
It didn't come, it doesn't matter
Courage, it couldn't come at a worse time

It couldn't come at a worse time
No
It couldn't come at a worse time

Courage