The Tragically Hip

[fox69]

"Lake Fever"

"Lake Fever"



We can take a bit of a breather
We can skip to the practical part
We can skip to the time of neither
When we're together, even when we're apart
I'll tell you a story about the lake fever
Or we can skip to the coital fury
You didn't say yes or no neither
You whispered hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry

We can take it a little bit further
We can stick to the after effects part
Not trying to make you a believer
Don't want a little piece of your heart
Just telling you a story about the lake fever
Or we can skip to the neutral fury
You didn't say yes or no neither
You whispered hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry

Want to be a nobody without peer
Want to be a thought that's never done
Want to shake your faith in human nature
Want to break the hearts of everyone
Want to be your wheezing screen door
Want to be your stars of Algonquin
Want to be your roaring floorboard
Want to break the hearts of everyone

And cause discontent
Until they cease in their investigation
To bring back the day's events
Good citizens and time well spent
Till we're talking in whispers again

You whispered hurry
Until we're talking in whispers again
You whispered hurry
Until we're talking in whispers again
You whispered hurry
Until we're talking in whispers again
You whispered hurry
Until we're talking in whispers again

 

[fox69]

"Last American Exit"

"Last American Exit"



You know the reasons I can't conceal
You know I'm leaving, you obviously know how I feel
It's not as easy as calling out your name when I'm down
It's not a matter for wrong or right
It ain't much better than drinking and looking to fight
You know I'm tired of crawling behind my name among the crowd

I'm on the last American exit to the northland
I'm on the last American exit to my homeland
I'm on the last American exit to my last dance
They keep calling out my name, I shout it down

They made you wonder and know for sure
You've made them hunger at night then they run for the door
You know you'll probably cry like Caesar's son when you're found
It's not your place it's another town
Let's face it, baby, I'm up and then, baby, I'm down
You'll watch the border offer you fame and watch it drown

I'm on the last American exit to the northland
I'm on the last American exit to my homeland
I'm on the last American exit to my last chance
They keep calling out my name, I shout it down

Know our neighbours and know they'll take us
Know my city it's just like theirs are
Hope I make it, I know I'm going to make it somehow
Know your saviour he knows you shakers
Know my pity I'll see you later
I'd like to stay but I know it doesn't matter somehow

I'm on the last American exit to the northland
I'm on the last American exit to my homeland
I'm on the last American exit to my last dance
They keep calling out my name
They keep calling out my name
They keep calling out my name, I shout it down

 

[fox69]

"Last Night I Dreamed You Didn't Love Me"

"Last Night I Dreamed You Didn't Love Me"



You kissed my fingers and made me love you
You kissed my fingers and made me love you

Last night when we went to hell
When the blood-starred curtain fell
Men were turning on their machines
Making everything mean

Fires burned, cold values clashed
Good and evil were all dry grass
No child-ghost, no singing bird
No last laugh, no last word

Last night I dreamed, last night I dreamed
Darkly nurtured dreams
None of them were quite as frightening, oh
Canada emptied, there was me
Featureless and freezing
Last night I dreamed you didn't love me

You kissed my fingers and made me love you
You kissed my fingers and made me love you

Last night you left me derelict
And disappeared for ages
You said, "Honey, save those
Tears of yours for the show"

Last night I dreamed, last night I dreamed
Darkly nurtured dreams
None of them were half as frightening, oh
Canada emptied, there was me
Beside you featureless and freezing
Last night I dreamed you didn't love me
You didn't love me

What's happening to you?
Why don't you love me like you used to?
When you kissed my fingers and you made me love you
When you kissed my fingers and you made me love you

Last night I dreamed, last night I dreamed
Darkly nurtured dreams
None of them, none as frightening, oh
Awake, empty and out of sleep
You were beside me gently breathing
Last night I dreamed you didn't love me
You didn't love me
You didn't love me

Why don't you love me like you used to?
When you kissed my fingers and you made me love you
When you kissed my fingers and you made me love you

 

[fox69]

"Leave"

"Leave"



"Do you mean the attack is routine?"
A bird asked of a bird
"In this context, a concave nest
How do we learn to hurt?"

"Do you mean there's no variation?"
Watching a dog charge a flock
Of birds exploding in congregation
"Why plan when we stop?"

"I don't know, but why suppose
It's not the way it should be?
When you can fly above the great waiting list
As the crow implies we won't be missed
We can leave, we can leave, we can leave"

It's a routine flight for this bird tonight
There's more worms than earth in the afterlife
Where the blind feed the blind
Whispering things like, "On the money" and "Bull's eye"

She picks up the little leaves
Where human wrecks are left to seed
Left to repaint their deities
And plaster away at their villainies
Where there's love and there's hope

"And do you hope those earthbound poets
Could learn to sing as good as us?
So we can sit back and enjoy our illusions
And our quietus?"

"Well, I don't know, but why suppose
It's not the way it should be?
When you can squawk and wait for word from above
And change yourself into something you love
When you leave, when you leave, you leave?"

 

[fox69]

"Let's Stay Engaged"

"Let's Stay Engaged"



It might be late but it won't be early
You got me to the gate with time for a coffee
It's getting late, sounds like a departure
It's getting close, sounds to me like a departure

Until we meet again, let's stay engaged
Until then, let's stay engaged

Lies over time they float to the surface
Lies over time they equal surface
Lies over time though the reasons desert us
Lies over time with no apparent purpose

Until we meet again, let's stay engaged
Until then, let's stay engaged

You see the dead art and you see your reflection
You fear no art and you fear no reflection
But don't look at me, I'm not the artist in question
Sounds good to me but I'm not the artist in question

Until we meet again, let's stay engaged
Until then, let's stay engaged, let's stay engaged

 

[fox69]

"Lionized"

"Lionized"



Cold wind blowing over your private parts
I know a lack you've got and it makes a strong case for art
Billboard breasts, they don't have a face
I know that fact you've got no girl could ever trace

Lionized, lionized

Smoking just a little too violently
I know that fact I've got and I know it single-mindedly
Stupid, stoned, cause and effect
I know a lack you've got and you don't even lack it yet

Lionized, lionized
Lionized, lionized

Tableau vivant
Roman a'clef

I can't draw but I can trace
I know a lack I've got, an abundance of extra space
Cold wind blowing over your private parts
I know a lack you've got is to make a strong case for art

Lionized, lionized
Lionized, lionized

Tableau vivant
Roman a'clef

Tableau vivant

 

[fox69]

"Little Bones"

"Little Bones"



It gets so sticky down here
Better butter your cue finger up
It's the start of another new year
Better call the newspaper up
Two fifty for a hi-ball
And buck and a half for a beer
Happy hour, happy hour
Happy hour is here

The long days of Shockley are gone
So is football Kennedy style
Famous last words taken all wrong
Wind up on the very same pile
Two fifty for a decade
And a buck and a half for a year
Happy hour, happy hour
Happy hour is here

I can cry, beg and whine
To every rebel I find
Just to give me a line
I could use to describe

They'd say, "Baby, eat this chicken slow
It's full of all them little bones"
"Baby, eat this chicken slow
It's full of all them little bones"

So regal and decadent here
Coffin cheaters dance on their graves
Music all it's delicate fear
Is the only thing that don't change
Two fifty for an eyeball
And a buck and a half for an ear
Happy hour, happy hour
Happy hour is here

Well, nothing's dead down here, it's just a little tired
Nothing is dead down here, it's just a little tired
Nothing's dead down here, it's just a little tired
Nothing is dead down here, it's just a little tired

"Baby, eat this chicken slow
It's full of all them little bones"
"Baby, eat this chicken slow
It's full of all them little bones"
Little bones
Full of all them little bones
Little bones

 

[fox69]

"Locked In The Trunk Of A Car"

"Locked In The Trunk Of A Car"



They don't know how old I am
They found armour in my belly
From the sixteenth century
Conquistador, I think
They don't know how old I am
They found armour in my belly
Passion out of machine revving tension
Lashing out at machine revving tension
Brushing by the machine revving tension

Morning broke out the back side of a truck stop
End of a line, a real rainbow likening luck stop
Where you could say I became chronologically fucked up
Put ten bucks in just to get the tank topped off

Then I found a place, it's dark and it's rotted
It's a cool, sweet kind of place where the copters won't spot it
And I destroyed the map, I even thought I forgot it
However, every day I'm dumping the body

It'd be better for us if you don't understand
It'd be better for me if you don't understand

Then I found a place, it's dark and it's rotted
It's a cool, sweet kind of place where the copters won't spot it
And I destroyed the map that I carefully dotted
However, every day I'm dumping the body

It'd be better for us if you don't understand
It'd be better for us if you don't understand
It'd be better for me if you don't understand

Let me out
Let me out
Let me out
Let me out
Let me out
Let me out
Let me out

 

[fox69]

"Long Time Running"

"Long Time Running"



Does your mother tell you things
Long, long when I'm gone?
Who you talking to?
Is she telling you I'm the one?

It's a grave mistake
And I'm wide awake

Drive in's rained out
Weatherman wet fingers the sky
He pokes it out, he pulls it in
He don't know why

It's the same mistake
It's been a long time running
It's been a long time coming
It's well worth the wait

We don't go anywhere
Just on trips
We haven't seen a thing
We still don't know where it is

It's a safe mistake
It's been a long time running
It's been a long time coming
Well, well, it's all the same mistake
Dead to rights and wide awake
I'll drop a caribou
I'll tell on you
I'll tell on you
I'll tell on you

You've got a boatload of nerve
But I would say you've been told
You work me against my friends and you'll get
You'll get left out in the cold

It's the same mistake
It's been a long time running
It's been a long time coming
It's been a long, long, long time running
It's well worth the wait
It's well worth the wait
It's well worth the wait
It's well worth the wait

 

[fox69]

"Looking For A Place To Happen"

"Looking For A Place To Happen"



I've got a job, I explore
I follow every little whiff
And I want my life to smell like this
To find a place, an ancient race
The kind you'd like to gamble with
Where they'd stamp on burning bags of shit

Looking for a place to happen
Making stops along the way, hey

Wayward ho, away we go
It's a shame to leave this masterpiece
With its gallery gods and its garbage bag trees
So I'll paint a scene from memory
So I'd know who murdered me
It's a vain pursuit but it helps me to sleep

Looking for a place to happen
Making stops along the way, hey
Looking for a place to happen
Making stops along the way, hey

Looking for a place to happen
Making stops along the way, hey

Jacques Cartier, right this way
I'll put your coat up on the bed
Hey, man, you've got the real bum's eye for clothes
And come on in, sit right down
No, you're not the first to show
We've all been here since, God, who knows?

Looking for a place to happen
Making stops along the way, hey
Looking for a place to happen
Making stops along the way, hey

Jacques Cartier, right this way
I'll put your coat up on the bed
You've got the real bum's eye for clothes
And come on in, sit right down
We've all been here since, God, who knows?