 Genius Lyrics
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The Tragically Hip – Poets
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[Verse 1] / Spring starts when a heartbeat's poundin' / When the birds can be heard above the reckonin' carts doin' some final accountin' / Lava flowin' in Superfarmer's direction
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The Tragically Hip – Fireworks
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This song is about the 1972 Summit Series between Canada and Russia as it played out alongside the cold war and the relationship development of the writer and his wife. The Summit
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The Tragically Hip – In View
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I love you / You know I do / Yeah, it's perfect / Well, it isn't and it is / And I've been meaning to call you / I've been meaning to call you / Then I do / I've been meaning to
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The Tragically Hip – At Transformation
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Gently breathing, lit by the morning sun / Through the night, it'd been raining venom / I want to be kind, not a bullet in the right place / Or just of two minds, more important
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The Tragically Hip – Small Town Bringdown
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Been to Reno / Drives an El Camino / Can you dig that style? / Hip canteen / You always make the scene / You're a crazy child / It's a sad thing, bourbon's all around / To stop
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The Tragically Hip – Scared
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[Chorus 1] / I could make you scared, if you want me to / I'm not prepared, but if I have to / He said, "I can make you scared, it's kind of what I do / If you're prepared, here's
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The Tragically Hip – Grace, Too
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[Verse 1] / He said I'm fabulously rich / C'mon just let's go / She kinda bit her lip / Geez, I don't know / [Pre-Chorus] / But I can guarantee / There'll be no knock on the door
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The Tragically Hip – Family Band
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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
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The Tragically Hip – Blow at High Dough
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They shot a movie once in my hometown / Everybody was in it from miles around / Out at the speedway, some kind of Elvis thing / Well, I ain't no movie star but I can get behind
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The Tragically Hip – Fly
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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
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The Tragically Hip – A Beautiful Thing
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In the ulcerating silence perspective comes / The way it always does for it's ransom / So randomly somebody calls / The phone rings and it brings Niagara Falls / At three o'clock
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The Tragically Hip – 38 Years Old
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“38 Years Old” presents a fictional account of the real-life escape of 14 inmates from the Millhaven Institution maximum security prison in the band’s hometown of Kingston, Ontario
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The Tragically Hip – New Orleans Is Sinking
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“New Orleans Is Sinking” is a song by Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip. It was released in November 1989 as the second single from the band’s first full-length studio album
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The Tragically Hip – No Threat
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Got a window washer's head / For an unmakeable bed / For loneliness / The past is no place to- / Rest your weary arms 'cept at sevens at your sides / Your face a campaign debt
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The Tragically Hip – Leave
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"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
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The Tragically Hip – All Tore Up
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We were a blow out of wicked proportions / An accidental company / If we said, "We were going to go out and get all tore up tonight" / Then we did, we got a little happening / Play
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The Tragically Hip – Montreal
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We'd like to do a song now about the identification process / It's called "Montreal" / She used to like lavender pantsuits / Long black velvet gloves / Smiles across crowded rooms
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The Tragically Hip (Ft. Sarah Harmer) – Now for Plan A
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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
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The Tragically Hip – 700 Ft. Ceiling
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[Verse 1] / Let's go to the park / Let's go watch them flooding / Out there after dark / Don't have to think or nothing / [Chorus] / And I love that for / For the way I'm feeling
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The Tragically Hip – Vapour Trails
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Titillations been replaced / By interstate, brick face and coffee mate / And by a list of phone calls / You'll like to make / Where you could sit on the edge of your bed / And you
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The Tragically Hip – Evelyn
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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
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The Tragically Hip – Lake Fever
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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
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The Tragically Hip – Silver Jet
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There's a still in the night, a tuneless moonlight / Just the I-need-you-and-here's-whys of snoring Gords and Cheryls / There's a heron outside, in violet light / There's an urge
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The Tragically Hip – Wheat Kings
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“Wheat Kings” tells the story of one of Canada’s darkest moments in its history, as 17 year old David Milgaard was wrongly convicted of the brutal rape and murder of 21 year old
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The Tragically Hip – Cordelia
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Angst on the planks, spitting from a bridge / Just to see how far down it really is / Robbing a bank, jumping from a train / Old antiques a man alone can entertain / It takes all
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The Tragically Hip – Thompson Girl
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Thompson Girl, I'm stranded at the Unique Motel / Thompson Girl, winterfighter's shot on the car as well / Looks like Christmas at fifty five degrees / This latitude weakens my
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The Tragically Hip – Gus The Polar Bear From Central Park
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Gus was the polar bear in Central Park Zoo in New York City from 1988 to his death in 2013. He became famous for being given Prozac when his behavior became unusual and repetitive
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The Tragically Hip – Goodnight Josephine
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I remember a girl on her cell phone, surrounded by her friends / Eyes flickering, she's trying to smother a smile in her hands / Is it someone for us, someone more worry free
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The Tragically Hip – The Dire Wolf
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In that September off, Isle Aux Morts / The desultory sea grew more so through the night / And made one think of tawny ports / As Aspen trembling in tomorrow's thorough light / And
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The Tragically Hip – Locked in the Trunk of a Car
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Partially based on the 1970 murder of Quebec labour minister Pierre Laporte by the FLQ, Locked In the Trunk of a Car is one of many Tragically Hip songs that reference Canadian
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The Tragically Hip – Escape Is at Hand for the Travellin' Man
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Gord Downie penned this song as a tribute to Material Issue lead singer Jim Ellison, who committed suicide in 1996.
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The Tragically Hip – Inevitability of Death
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Puffy lips, glistening skin / And everything comes rushing in / We don't go to hell the memories of us do / I get a sense of connectedness / Exclusive, tight but nothing dangerous
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The Tragically Hip – Nautical Disaster
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There are various commentaries speculating what nautical disaster the song references.
Gord Downie told the authors of Can-Rock book Have Not Been The Same, that the song’s
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The Tragically Hip – Little Bones
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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 high ball / And a buck and a
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The Tragically Hip – The Dark Canuck
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This one is for you / And it goes on and on and on / When nothing seems to do / For when the doubtless and the wrong / Ask, "Can I help you?" / In that way that says, "I can't
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The Tragically Hip – Vaccination Scar
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So the chemistry's set / And I'm not the saddest cheerleader to forget the American word / For the gang in the head / That dwindles to no members when / The mystery's met / The sky
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