Tragically Hip

Twelve men broke loose in '73 From Milhaven maximum security Twelve pictures lined up across the front page seems the mounties had a summertime war to wage The chief told the people they had nothing to fear The last thing they'd wanna do is hang around here Th...

First we'd climb a tree and maybe then we'd talk Or sit silently and listen to our thoughts With illusions of someday casting a golden light No dress rehearsal, this is our life That's when the hornet stung me and I had a feverish dream With revenge and d...

Me debunk an American myth? And take my life in my hands? Where the Great Plains begin at the hundredth meridian At the hundredth meridian where the Great Plains begin Driving down a corduroy road, Weeds standing shoulder high Ferris wheel is rusting off in...

They shot a movie once in my home town Every body was in it from miles around Out at the speedway some kinda Elvis thing Well I ain't no movie star but I can get behind anything Get it out get it all out Yeah stretch that thing Make it last make it all last A...

Well I think that there's a problem here Her voice doesn't sound right But I left myself on the answering machine Said "I'm back in town tonight." I feel I've stepped out of the wilderness All squint-eyed and confused But even babies raised by wolves They know...

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...

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...

Sled Dogs after dinner close their eyes on their howlin' ways Kurt cobain, reincarnated, sighs and licks his face Then they drift past strips of Seregeneti and the gates of sleepy hollow too You can pause and wonder they pause and wonder yeah I pause and wonde...

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 until 1962 the year he was discovered I stole this from a hockey card I keep tucked up under My fifty mission cap I worked...

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...

The beautiful lull, the dangerous tug We get to feel small from high up above And after a glimpse over the top The rest of the world becomes a gift shop The pendulum swings for the horse like a man Out over the rim is ice cream to him The beautiful lull, the...

he said I'm famously rich C'mon just lets go She kinda bit her lip Geez, I don't know But I can guarantee There'll be no knock on the door I'm a total pro that's what I'm here for I come from downtown Born ready for you Armed with will and determination and gr...

I don't wanna look for words I don't wanna work that hard I want your song in my head The way you sing it from the heart yeah Whenever I get lost Whenever I feel weak Whenever or just because You whisper it to me Honey, maybe everything you need Is...

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...

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 can't not desert I...

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, some...

I had this dream where I relished The fray and the screaming that filled my head all day It was as though I'd been spit there, settled in , into a pocket Of a lighthouse off some rocky socket, Off the coast of France, Dear One afternoon, four thousand men di...

Bourbon blues on the street loose and complete Under skies all smoky blue-green I can Forksake the dixie dead shake So we dance the sidewalk clean My memory is muddy what's this river I'm in New Orleans is sinking and I don't want to swim Colonel Tom What's w...

Now, the apology done Applause can begin Now, the apologies done Applause begins If it bleeds it leads If it cries it flies If it feeds a need If it dies, it dies Now the struggle has a name It doesn't fade, it hasn't changed I still feel the same...

Win Toronto yelled the Queen of the Furrows This is how we farm hens cluck and roosters crow You are my heart staring down from the pillar To be apart is that why you have to go To conversations city everybody's talking You must have something to s...

I can make you scared if I want me to I'm not prepared, but if I have to He said I can make you scared It's kinda what I do If you are prepared to Here is what I propose to do Your in Russia And more than a million works of art Are wisked out to the woods When...

Instructions from the manual could no have been more plain The blues are still required , The blues are still required again Past territorial piss-posts past whispers in the closets Past screaming from the roof tops We live to survive our paradoxes We'll live...

Under the pillow I bury my head and try to shut Chicago out As it turns out there's a whole other world of sounds of perfect fifths low skids and Arctic howls all saying are you going through something? are you going through something? Under the pillow...

Violins and tambourines This is what we think they mean It's hard to say, it's sad but true I'm kinda dumb and so are you When the mystique varies thus You can send a man to bury us It's hard to say, it's sad but true I'm kinda dumb and so are you The last o...

We rode hard, for the boat, as we could, tears you said, understood, understood, I said alright. A crowd will be born , only born,I, I want to watch for a sign, in the night, I watch a bomb go off in a young girls life. Who were you.. The last reclu...

There She Blows, Jacque Cousteau Hear her sing so sweat and low Lull me overboard, cold-out Gathered in a swallowed hole. Do I want to? With All that charm Do I want to? Twist my arm You just hit me where I live I guess it looked quite primitive What was th...

Sundown in the Paris of the prairies Wheat Kings have all their treasures barried All you hear are the rusty breezes Pushing around the weather vane Jesus In a zippo lighter you see the killer's face Maybe it's someone standing in the killers place Twenty Yea...