The Tragically Hip

[fox69]

"Daredevil"

"Daredevil"



I can't imagine how you feel, and this is how you feel
You say your name like you're no longer convinced
But now they're strapping you in, and closing the lid
And they're dropping you in, what's done you did
The bell's picking up speed, there's water leaking in
That old equilibrium just starts to spin and spin

Do you like to be judged or liked?
Do you like it inside a barrel
And plunging over the falls?
Curious and grim
We wrestle at the rim
We wonder all about him
And the point of it all

I'll be short and brief and to the point
The fighting has resumed
In that tone of voice
The plague is exhumed
He said, "What I'm going through
Is essentially all true
Made no less amazing by the fact that it's see through"

Do you like to be judged or liked?
Do you like it inside a barrel
And plunging over the falls?
Strong and green and dim
It wrestled him like nothing
Out, out, out and in-
To the thrill of them all

And the real wonder of the world
Is that we don't jump too
And the real wonder of the world
Is that we don't jump too
And the real wonder of the world
Is that we don't jump too

 

[fox69]

"Don't Wake Daddy"

"Don't Wake Daddy"



Sled dogs after dinner
Close their eyes on the howling wastes
Kurt Cobain reincarnated
Sighs and licks his face
Then they drift past strips of Serengeti
And the gates of Sleepy Hollow too
You can pause in wonder, they paused in wonder
And, yeah, I paused in wonder too

Shhh
Don't
Wake
Daddy

They can lay their heads on their futon beds
So many miles from home
You teach your children some fashion sense
And they fashion some of their own
For when the policy weary commune
On the untamed land
Through white sheers, whispers in their ears
"You're damned"

Shhh
And don't
Wake
Daddy
Just don't

You can stuff your void with the asteroid
That's hurtling toward the Earth
You can drop the bomb that restores some calm
And then promises rebirth

Shhh
Just don't
Wake
Daddy
Just don't
Wake
Daddy

It's the perfect time now (sing to end all songs)
For an eclectic choice (to end all songs)
They're all asleep but us now (sing to end all songs)
It's time to hear your voice (to end all songs)

(Sing to end all songs, to end all songs)
(Sing to end all songs, to end all songs)
(Sing to end all songs, to end all songs)
(Sing to end all songs, to end all songs)

 

[fox69]

"Done And Done"

"Done And Done"



Done and done
I never get my way
You always get your way
I never get my way

Done and done
Talk about me
I'll listen for hours
'Cause I don't know how it ends

We're through, through
Through and through
Yeah, through, through
Through and through

Done and done
You always get your way
I never get my way
You always get your way

Done and done
Days accomplished
If I had a wish
It'd be for more of this

This through, through
Through and through
Yeah, through, through
Through and through

Done and done
Night accomplished
If I had a wish
I'd wish for more of this

This through, through
This through and through
We're through, through
Yeah, through and through

 

[fox69]

"Eldorado"

"Eldorado"



He's a man-sized Eldorado
Hooved a doo
And who could blame him
Who could blame him
Where we going?
What's the ticket?
Just the mention of Berlin makes me sexy
it makes me sexy

And tired of thinking about drinking
For thinking of drinking
While thinking about drinking
And thinking about drinking
It's a man-sized inside

Look in here
It's all hardwood
What's that smell?
Smells like coffee
It smells like coffee
If you regret it please say something
I've got no genius for evil
That makes me common
It makes me common

And tired of loving, recovering
Loving, recovering
Loving, recovering
Loving, recovering
It's a man-sized inside

He's a man-sized Eldorado
Whoopty-do
If you can't take it
If you can't take it
Where's he going?
What's that ticking?
Just the mention of Berlin
Makes me sexy
It makes me sexy

And tired of thinking about drinking
For thinking of drinking
While thinking about drinking
And thinking about drinking

Tired of loving, recovering
Loving, recovering
Loving, recovering
Loving, recovering
It's a man-sized inside
It's a man-sized inside

Inside
Inside
Inside
Inside
Inside
Inside
Inside

 

[fox69]

"Emergency"

"Emergency"



I've often dreamt of a conversation
That just keeps on coming up again and again
We're sitting in the baby bar bereft
At a shadowy table out past the sentence's end
It's an emergency without end

From until it's no longer fun
To that's no longer relevant
From until we're no longer one
To the bona fide embodiment
Of an endless emergency without end
We're an endless emergency without end

We often stop in these conversations
Things we say here stay here forever, amen
When everything seems either funny or lousy
Funny or lousy, that's where it usually ends
We're an emergency without end

From until it's no longer fun
To that's no longer relevant
From until we're no longer one
To that's no longer permanent
From the last survivors of those terms
To the bona fide embodiment
Of an endless emergency without end
We're an endless emergency without end
We're an endless emergency without end
We're an endless emergency without end

But your finger starts to wiggle
And landscapes emerge

 

[fox69]

"Emperor Penguin"

"Emperor Penguin"



I like the tone of your trumpet, come on let's spill some paint
Let's raise a glass of milk to the end of another day
And to the kiss that's still intangible, the kids are all right just unmanageable
They won't do a damn thing you say

Your voice is all detached on a radio wave breeze
We have another caller with a bachelor degree
Talking alien invasion is the only chance of unity
Well, sorry to interrupt you, caller, but that's a physical impossibility
That's a physical impossibility
That's a physical impossibility

You'd be tossed up or washed up, the narrator relates
In a spartan antarctican walk for many days
Meet with Emperor Penguin, devotion to the egg
And their women are swimming from half an ocean away

Don't sound so detached, this is you and me
Just give me your opinion before you turn to leave
Your crust is just incredible, the radio was edible
When you said don't wipe your arses with your sleeves
You're a physical impossibility
You're a physical impossibility
It was a physical impossibility

 

[fox69]

"Escape Is At Hand For The Travellin' Man"

"Escape Is At Hand For The Travellin' Man"



It was our third time in New York
It was your fourth time in New York
We were fifth and sixth on the bill
We talk a little about our bands
Talk a little of our future plans
It's not like we were best of friends
Why, what did we do?

That number scheme comes back to me
In times beyond our heartbeat

We hung around till the final band
Called "Escape Is At Hand For The Travelling Man"
You yelled in my ear this music speaks to me
They launched into "Lonely From Rock And Roll"
Followed by "They Checked Out An Hour Ago"
Closing with "All Desires Turn Concrete"

Those melodies come back to me
At times beyond our heartbeat

I guess I'm too slow, yes, I'm too, yes, I'm too slow
You said any time of the day was fine
You said any time of the night was also fine

I walked through your revolving door
Got no answer on the seventh floor
Elevator gave a low moan
The pigeons sagged the wire with their weight
Listening to the singing chambermaid
She sang "They Checked Out An Hour Ago"
I kind of chuckled

Those melodies come back to me
In times beyond our heartbeat

I guess I'm too slow, yes, I'm too, yes, I'm too slow
You said any time of the day was fine
You said any time of the night was also fine
Our heartbeat, our heartbeat, our heartbeat

Long conversation or idle chit chat
Maybe dive in or maybe hang back

Idle conversation or idle chit chat
Maybe dive in or maybe hang back

 

[fox69]

"Evelyn"

"Evelyn"



Evelyn, Evelyn, where were you last night?
Evelyn, Evelyn, where were you last night?

Waited on your front porch till the break of day
But when dawn broke I could no longer wait for

Evelyn, Evelyn, where were you last night?
Evelyn, Evelyn, where were you last night?

Must have phoned a hundred times, no answer came
What kind of fool am I to play the game with

Evelyn, Evelyn, where were you last night?

This has gone on before
But I can't take it no more
I'll even up the score
And get away from

Evelyn, Evelyn, where were you last night?

If you must have your way you won't have me
But I can't be pushed around, I must get free from

Evelyn, Evelyn, where were you last night?
Where were you last night?
Where were you last night?
Where were you last night?

 

[fox69]

"Everytime You Go"

"Everytime You Go"



Like anyone I knew a Dave
Drove a Plymouth Shallow Grave
Said, "My girl don't just walk, she unfurls"
With motorcycle language
He stumbled through his slang pledge
Then he dragged the mud for wedding pearls

He closed both his eyes and sort of gave her a kiss
Said, "Don't worry, baby, about what you're going to miss"
There will always be a much, much more than this

Every time you go
You are all I see
Holding out for you and me

Pulled down his birthday suitcase
Brown with dust from no place
Said, "I think it's time we made a start"
They danced the waltz of charity
No car garage, two kids for free
They were pissing bliss and playing parts

He closed both his eyes and sort of gave her a kiss
Said, "Don't worry, baby, about what you're going to miss"
There will always be a much, much more than this

Every time you go
You are all I see
Holding out for you and me

And the big snake pit
And we danced to the edge of it
And we laugh and we laugh
'Cause we ain't seen the half of it

Every time you go
You are all I see
Holding out for you and me

Every time you go
You are all I see
Holding out for you and me

Every time you go
You are all I see
Holding out for you and me

You and me
You and me
You and me

 

[fox69]

"Family Band"

"Family Band"



I can't smell a rat when it's all rat
I can't find one in an elevator
My mind doesn't work so bad
But I am a poor exterminator
That's right

I can't destroy entirely
Or annihilate a little later
I can't see the entire city
But I'm not a bad exterminator

I'm just a shade shy of true wickedness
I'm a shade shy of truly loving it, yeah
There are other things I'd rather be doing
Even nothing, even nothing, even nothing with you

One day I'll make some honest rock and roll
Full of hand claps and gang vocals
I'm going to get all the children involved
We're going to get lost on all you locals

We'll be a shade shy of true wickedness
We'll be a shade shy of truly loving this, yeah
There are other things we'd rather be doing, sure
Even nothing, even nothing, even nothing with you

We'll load out through the snow
Through small groups of people smoking
Hey, get that kick drum loaded
Into the backseat folded down
We'll go virtually unnoticed
What's gripping the city ain't hitting the town

We'll be a shade shy of true wickedness
We'll be a shade shy of truly loving it, yeah
There are other things that we'll surely miss

We'll load out through the snow
Through small groups of people smoking
Hey, get that kick drum loaded
Into the backseat folded down
We'll go perfectly unnoticed
What's gripping the city ain't hitting the town