The Tragically Hip

fox69 · 16.01.2016

"Love Is A First"

"Love Is A First"

I've been interpreted and shrunk
I've been as touchless as a drunk

This is as bad as or worse, as bad as or worse
This is as bad as or worse, as bad as or worse
Love is a curse, be her world, all it deserves
Love is a curse, get what you cannot desert

I know, I know it's all just first blurts
That he who would try to own deserves it
And I know it's got nothing to do with deserves it
Just that you don't just blurt
Love is a curse, love is a curse, love is a curse
You don't just blurt, love is a curse

Though I've been too weak to escape
And I don't have the strength to pluck a grape
Though it's as bad as or worse, as bad as or worse
Though it's as bad as or worse, as bad as or worse

Love is a first, felt the dull fangs of the truth
Love is a first, their music they torture to
Love is a first, a song would power it first
Love is a first, let's walk down the darkness's horse

We were frozen until he saw us
And smoke and murder fell on the floor
And watch the own death of your TV
And dreams are stuck in urgent tweads

Drain the ocean of words
Like God's representatives on earth
Learn to hurt and how not to hurt
And the thing you taught me and what I learned
Love is a first

And it's as bad as or worse, love is a first
As bad as or worse, love is a first
As bad as or worse, love is a first
As bad as or worse

Love is a curse, be her world, all it deserves
Love is a first, go where the curtain occurs
Love is a curse, get what you cannot desert
Love is a first, it just occurs and occurs

We were frozen until he saw us
And smoke and murder fell on the floor
And watch the own death of your TV
And dreams are stuck in urgent tweads

Drain the ocean of words
Like God's representatives on earth
Learn to hurt and how not to hurt
And the thing you taught me and what I learned
Love is a first

fox69 · 16.01.2016

"Luv(Sic)"

"Luv(Sic)"

There are words I carry in my heart
Words I carry in my heart
Clung to, glad of, uncommonly held
peculiarly interlaced, remembered and felt

Am I lovesick?
It's as if love's the only virtue there is
Am I lovesick?

The plot thins, emotions get frayed
Attractions move through the shade
Done for, delight in and forever held
Influence, given life, remembered and felt

Am I lovesick?
It's not as if love's the only virtue there is
Am I lovesick?

It's nothing to hate
Who can't hate can
Got nothing against hate
It's all the planning
It gets hard to remember
We're best when we're tender

Words I carry in my heart
Words I carry in my heart
Words I carry in my heart
Clung to, glad of, uncommonly held
Peculiarly interlaced, remembered and felt

Am I lovesick?
Maybe love is the only virtue there is
Am I lovesick?
Lovesick, lovesick
Love is the only virtue there is
Am I lovesick?

fox69 · 16.01.2016

"Man Machine Poem"

"Man Machine Poem"

See
It works
In monkeys
You're right
Again
But it is a thin win

Man Machine Poem

Breathtake-
Ingly
The Egg Thief
His wins
Are thin
Avocet and peregrine

Man Machine Poem

Yer beau-
Tiful
Terrific
Your eyes
Empty
Pacifics

Man Machine Poem

Man Machine Poem

fox69 · 16.01.2016

"Mean Streak"

"Mean Streak"

Is it a mean streak, you'd swear, you'd swear
We never seen a stranger round here
Is it the way the dust clings to the air
But you'd swear, you'd swear

Is it a mean streak, a desolation sound
A copy of desire, oh nothing's that far down
A mean streak on a western swing
On TV saying the damnedest thing

A meanstreak, you'd swear, you'd swear
We never seen a stranger round here
It's the way the dust clings to the air
After a stranger's been there
You'd swear, you'd swear

Is it a mean streak to a certain degree
Come whistling down the crookedest street
A mean streak in the ghost state
Between the certain and the hesitating

A meanstreak, you'd swear, you'd swear
We never seen a stranger round here
It's the way the dust clings to the air
After a stranger's been here
You'd swear, you'd swear

Was that you there?
That was you there
Was that you there?
That was you there

The sssh sound of the bottoms of their boots
On the tops of the grass
As their haywagon rolled past
And I'd swear, I'd swear
The way the dust clings to the air
After the stranger's been here
I'd swear, I'd swear
That that was you there

fox69 · 16.01.2016

"Membership"

"Membership"

Whether laying down yourself beside it
Or slipping into its cool and rushing effects
Or drifting on it to where it broadens
Your admiration for, for it's more elusive aspects

Being drawn along by it
Carried under, carried away
By its long term membership

By the time the ice huts hit the bottom
We were already home in bed
The most worthy men and the fiercest architects
Couldn't fight the current, they couldn't save, they couldn't save the sheds

Being drawn along by it
Carried under, carried away
By its long term membership

Bring on the springtime, bring on the houseflies
Bring on the butterscotch, river over spilling its banks
If you've got you some withering power to amuse
You'll find its greatest frustration has its entertaining value

Being drawn along by it
Carried under, carried away
By its long term membership

Being drawn along by it
Carried under, carried away
By its long term membership

River wide, river wonder us

fox69 · 16.01.2016

"Morning Moon"

"Morning Moon"

The reactor's down, I guess for labor day today
It's the first day I ain't seen great plume of steam
From across the lake, from across the lake
Hey, that's a morning moon, yeah

I'm not making strange, you said someone's paying
When something's too cheap, somebody's paying something
You said, someone's paying something
Under a morning moon, yeah
Say those little things that don't make anyone feel better, yeah

It didn't take too much to upset her
Nothing that could clear a room
Just say one little thing that could make me feel better
Under this morning moon, yeah

The sun's a light bulb and the moon is a mirror
There are times when you can see both the bulb and the mirror
See the bulb in a mirror and that's a morning moon, yeah
Say those little things that don't make anyone feel better, yeah

It doesn't take too much to upset her
Nothing that could clear a room
Just saying one little thing, trying to make you feel better
Under this morning moon, yeah
Under this morning moon, yeah

(Morning moon, yeah)
Trying to make you feel better
(Morning moon, yeah)
Nothing too far from the truth

(Morning moon, yeah)
Trying to make you feel better
(Morning moon, yeah)
Nothing too far from the truth

(Morning moon, yeah)
Trying to make you feel better
(Morning moon, yeah)
Nothing too far from the truth

fox69 · 16.01.2016

"My Music At Work"

"My Music At Work"

Everything is bleak
It's the middle of the night
You're all alone
And the dummies might be right
You feel like a jerk
My music at work
My music at work

Avoid trends and cliches
Don't try to be up to date
And when the sunlight hits the olive-oil
Don't hesitate
The night's so long it hurts
My music at work

In a symbol too far
Or the anatomy of a stain
To determine where you are
In a sink full of Ganges I'd remain
No matter what you heard
My music at work
My music at work
My music at work

I call it "Olga Waits
The Cloud That Entertains
The Dim Possibility
Of Showing Some Restraint"
The rain came down berserk
My music at work
My music at work

On a star beyond the chart
Or the dark side of a drop of rain
Determining where you are
In a sink full of Ganges I'd remain
No matter what you heard
My music at work
My music at work
My music at work

La la la la la la
La la la la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la la la la la

Everything is bleak
It's the middle of the night
You're all alone
And the dummies might be right
Outside the darkness lurks
My music at work
My music at work

Hey, fallen hummingbird
My music at work
From the middle of the earth
My music at work
Bound for bed without dessert
My music at work
It's my music at work
My music at work

fox69 · 16.01.2016

"Nautical Disaster"

"Nautical Disaster"

I had this dream where I relished the fray
And the screaming filled my head all day
It was as though I'd been spit here
Settled in, into the pocket
Of a lighthouse on some rocky socket
Off the coast of France, dear
One afternoon four thousand men died in the water here
And five hundred more were thrashing madly
As parasites might in your blood
Now I was in a lifeboat designed for ten and ten only
Anything that systematic would get you hated
It's not a deal nor a test nor a love of something fated
The selection was quick, the crew was picked in order
And those left in the water
Got kicked off our pant leg
And we headed for home
Then the dream ends when the phone rings
"You doing all right?"
He said, "It's out there most days and nights
But only a fool would complain"
Anyway, Susan, if you like
Our conversation is as faint a sound in my memory
As those fingernails scratching on my hull

fox69 · 16.01.2016

"New Orleans Is Sinking"

"New Orleans Is Sinking"

All right

Bourbon blues on the street, loose and complete
Under skies all smoky blue green
I can't forsake a dixie dead shake
So we danced the sidewalk clean

My memory is muddy, what's this river that I'm in?
New Orleans is sinking, man, and I don't want to swim

Colonel Tom, what's wrong? What's going on?
You can't tie yourself up for a deal
He said, Hey, north, you're south, shut your big mouth
You gotta do what you feel is real

Ain't got no picture postcards, ain't got no souvenirs
My baby she don't know me when I'm thinking bout those years

Pale as a light bulb hanging on a wire
Sucking up to someone just to stoke the fire
Picking out the highlights of the scenery
Saw a little cloud that looked a little like me

I had my hands in the river, my feet back up on the banks
Looked up to the lord above and said, Hey, man, thanks

Sometimes I feel so good I got to scream
She said, Gordie, baby, I know exactly what you mean
She said, she said, I swear to god she said

My memory is muddy, what's this river that I'm in?
New Orleans is sinking, man, and I don't want to swim

Swim

fox69 · 16.01.2016

"Now For Plan A"

"Now For Plan A"

Yeah, I know, I know, I know
It's still not enough
Nothing short of everything
Nothing short of everything's enough
No matter how wide or how tough
Nothing short of everything's enough

Yeah, I know, I know, I know
Now for Plan A
I'll stay till the wisteria fades
And falls on L.A.
No matter how high or how rough
Nothing short of everything's enough

In your face the endless patience
The fleeting nature of life on display
(And nothing short of everything)
(Nothing short of everything)
I'll stay till the wisteria fades
The way it falls all over L.A.
(Nothing short of everything)
(Nothing short of everything)
(Nothing short of everything)
(Nothing short of everything)
(Nothing short of everything)
No matter how wide or how rough
(Nothing short of everything)
(Nothing short of everything)
Nothing short of everything's enough
(Nothing short of everything)
(Nothing short of everything)
(Nothing short of everything)
(Nothing short of everything)