The Tragically Hip

[fox69]

"Fiddler's Green"

"Fiddler's Green"



September seventeen
For a girl I know it's Mother's Day
Her son has gone alee
And that's where he will stay
The wind on the weathervane
Tearing blue eyes sailor mean
As Falstaff sings a sorrowful refrain
For a boy in Fiddler's Green

His tiny knotted heart
Well, I guess it never worked to good
The timber tore apart
And the water gorged the wood
You can hear her whispered prayer
For men at masts that always lean
The same wind that moves her hair
Moves her boy through Fiddler's Green

Nothing's changed anyway
Nothing's changed anyway
Any time today

He doesn't know a soul
There's nowhere that he's really been
But he won't travel long alone
No, not in Fiddler's Green
Balloons all filled with rain
As children's eyes turn sleepy mean
And Falstaff sings a sorrowful refrain
For a boy in Fiddler's Green

 

[fox69]

"Fifty-Mission Cap"

"Fifty-Mission Cap"



Bill Barilko disappeared that summer
He was on a fishing trip
The last goal he ever scored
Won the Leafs the cup
They didn't win another till nineteen sixty two
The year he was discovered
I stole this from a hockey card
I keeped tucked up under

My fifty-mission cap
I worked it in
I worked it in to look like that
It's my fifty-mission cap
It's his fifty-mission cap
And I worked it in
I worked it in
And I worked it in to look like that
And I worked it in to look like that

Bill Barilko disappeared that summer (in nineteen fifty one)
He was on a fishing trip (in a plane)
The last goal he ever scored (in over time)
Won the Leafs the cup
They didn't win another till nineteen sixty two
The year he was discovered

In my fifty-mission cap
I worked it in
I worked it in to look like that
It's my fifty-mission cap
It's his fifty-mission cap
And I worked it in
I worked it in
And I worked it in to look like that
And I worked it in to look like that

It's my fifty-mission cap
It's my fifty-mission cap
It's my fifty-mission cap
It's my fifty-mission cap

 

[fox69]

"Fight"

"Fight"



We wake up different, rifle through our dreams
Another placid day, ripples at the seams

Do you think I bow out 'cause I think you're right?
Or 'cause I don't want to fight?
Do you think I bow out 'cause I think you're right?
Or 'cause I don't want to fight?

So tangle minded then so becalmed
It's all so subway grim and then it's gone

Do you think I bow out 'cause I think you're right?
Or 'cause I don't want to fight?
Do you think I bow out 'cause I think you're right?
Or 'cause I don't want to fight?

Oh go ahead and fight

We get so weary, taking fish off hooks
It's not as effortless as it may look

Do you think I bow out 'cause I think you're right?
Or 'cause I don't want to fight?
Do you think I bow out 'cause I think you're right?
Or 'cause I don't want to fight?

Oh fight

We lay down seething, smell our pillows burn
And drift off to the place where you'd think we'd learn

Do you think I bow out 'cause I think you're right?
Or 'cause I don't want to fight?
Do you think I bow out 'cause I think you're right?
Or 'cause I don't want to fight?

Oh go ahead and fight

I said, "I give"
I said, "I give"
I said, "I give"

 

[fox69]

"Fire In The Hole"

"Fire In The Hole"



You triumphed over will
You had immunity to kill
You had your dreams fulfilled
And I love you still

But there's a power beyond control
There's a fire in the hole
Ah, the nights are getting cold
All your secrets will be told
Turn your lanterns low

As long as you can dig up proof
As cold as water through the roof
Brutal as depicted truth
That kid's a fucking goof
Turn your lanterns low

But there's a power beyond control
There's a fire in the hole
Yeah, the nights are getting cold
All his secrets will be told
Turn your lanterns low
All right

I'd like to stand up soon and show
I'd like to let some people know
I'd turn my bucket over
I'd turn my lantern low

But there's a power beyond control
There's a fire in the hole
Yeah, the nights are getting cold
All my secrets will be told
Turn your lanterns low
All right, all right

 

[fox69]

"Fireworks"

"Fireworks"



If there's a goal that everyone remembers
It was back in old seventy two
We all squeezed the stick and we all pulled the trigger
And all I remember is sitting beside you

You said you didn't give a fuck about hockey
And I never saw someone say that before
You held my hand and we walked home the long way
You were loosening my grip on Bobby Orr

Isn't it amazing anything's accomplished
When the little sensation gets in your way
Not one ambition whispering over your shoulder
Isn't it amazing you can do anything

We hung out together every single moment
'Cause that's what we thought married people do
Complete with the grip of artificial chaos
And believing in the country of me and you

Crisis of faith and crisis in the Kremlin
And, yeah, we'd heard all that before
It's wintertime, the house is solitude with options
And loosening the grip on a fake cold war

Isn't it amazing what you can accomplish
When you don't let the nation get in your way
And not one ambition whispering over your shoulder
Isn't it amazing you can do anything

Next to your comrades in the National Fitness Program
Caught in some eternal flexed arm hang
Dropping to the mat in a fit of laughter
Showed no patience, tolerance or restraint

Fireworks exploding in the distance
Temporary towers soar
Fireworks emulating heaven
Till there are no stars any more
Fireworks aiming straight at heaven
Temporary towers soar
Till there are no stars shining up in heaven
Till there are no stars any more

Isn't it amazing what you can accomplish
When the little sensation gets in your way
No ambition whispering over your shoulder
Isn't it amazing what you can accomplish

This one thing probably never goes away
I think this one thing is always supposed to stay
This one thing doesn't have to go away

 

[fox69]

"Flamenco"

"Flamenco"



Does it diminish your super capacity to love?
Does it diminish your super capacity to love?

Walk like a matador, don't be chicken shit
And turn breezes into rivulets
Flamenco sweep the air and weave the sun
And stamp your feet for everyone

Does it exhibit your natural tendency to hate?
Does it exhibit your natural tendency for hate?

Maybe a prostitute could teach you
How to take a compliment
Maybe I'll go to New York, I'll drag you there
You said, "No one drags me anywhere"

Does it diminish your super capacity to love?
Does it diminish your super capacity to love?
To love, to love, to love?

 

[fox69]

"Fly"

"Fly"



Seventy days to cross the ocean
Seventy nights where no one's going to hear me fall
Freddie Mercury, I've sometimes wished
I'd never been born at all
That's right

I remain unphotographed, yeah
I don't exaggerate my intelligence
I might turn a broom into a tree
But I'll never be one of them
That's right

I fly
'Cause there's no why in getting beaten up by
A guy
Who cries before he fights

I don't want them to see me like this
The way they like to kick people when they're down
You said, "Please stop worrying about this
They stop kicking once you're down"
That's right

There's Mistaken Point, Newfoundland
There's Moonbeam Ontari-ari-o
There are places I've never been
And always wanted to go
That's right

Fly
'Cause woe betide a guy who just lives to fight
Fly
Love is to try die trying

Fly, yeah, that's right
Fly, yeah, that's right
Try, love is to try die trying

Coastline rising out of the ocean
Coastline rises like a pair of glowing thighs
There's something down deep inside me
Says where you been all my life

Fly, turn your back, get your face in the sky
Fly, love is to try die trying
Try, left and right, across your mind
Try, love is to try and die trying

 

[fox69]

"Forest Edge"

"Forest Edge"



I'm a rock and roller
Wary of windfall
Staying at the Get Out Now Hotel
And I want it all

The forest edge
In the deepest darkest depths
On the forest edge
With a blind, benign absentmindedness

You picked up the phone
And heard what sounded like a really big car
Revving way too hot outside
You said, "Tell me where you are?"

Forest edge
For Christ sakes it's darkness
On the edge of town
A sweet and mean unassailing sound

A dream, dream, Springsteen scene, naturally
A dream, dream, torn up in dream, naturally

You detected me shaking
Even when I wasn't shaking
Like all great relationships
This one started with an apology

Forest edge
In the deepest darkest depths
On the forest edge
With a kind, sublime absentmindedness

A dream, dream, guitar dream, naturally
A dream, dream, reoccurring dream, naturally
A dream, dream, Springsteen scene
A dream, dream, guitar dream

 

[fox69]

"Freak Turbulence"

"Freak Turbulence"



You're older, you're haunted, you're ahead of your time
In corners of acres of blocks of straight lines
Blurringly, hourly we cross some great divides
Some heritage moments and some melodious minds
A voice above the engine and the jet stream combined
"It's time, sir, the time, sir, do you have the time?"

As the moon groomed the airplane
In a benevolent way

Again with the myth that's neither here, neither there
Again with the myth from up, up high in the air
Above it all, I love you all, oh how could this be the end?
Satan backhands our nose and our chin
The wings tell the tailfins, "it's freak turbulence"

Just then the captain assures us we will land
"I'll have you on the ground in twenty five minutes or less"
"Or less," did he say, "less"? Unless what? We're not on time?
Or less he said "or less" jet stream and engine combine
Unless he said "or less" as if a joke might just keep us flying

And as the moon groomed the airplane
In a benevolent way
And as the moon groomed the airplane
In a benevolent way
And as the moon groomed the airplane
With its benevolent rays

 

[fox69]

"Frozen In My Tracks"

"Frozen In My Tracks"



Sometimes when I'm walking
I dream I'm being taken for granted
It's then that I clearly imagine
The Day That You Take Me For Granted

You said, one day you're gonna realize
You really have no sense of yourself
And with no way to take it back
You'll get frozen in your tracks
Frozen in your tracks

Sometimes when we're talking
I feel like you're not even listening
It's then that I clearly remember
Rarely ever seeing you listening

You said, when you gonna realize
You really have no sense of yourself
There's no way to take it back
You've been frozen in your tracks

Simpler than the rest, you don't do stupid games
You're not more complex, you don't lay 'violent blame'

Tonight I was walking (tonight I was walking)
Feeling alone on this planet (feeling alone on this planet)
When all at once something stopped me (when all at once something stopped me)
(I realized I'd taken you for granted) I realized I'd taken you for granted

And tonight I realized
I really have no sense of myself
No way to take it back
I am frozen in my tracks
I'm frozen in my tracks
Frozen in my tracks