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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 – Radio Show (Bonus Track)
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“Radio Show” is the promotional single for the 2014 deluxe edition reissue of Fully Completely.
It was one of the two previously unreleased bonus tracks included on the album, in
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The Tragically Hip – Courage (for Hugh MacLennan)
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“Courage (for Hugh MacLennan)” is a song by Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip. It was released in February 1993 as the third single from their 1992 album Fully Completely. The
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The Tragically Hip – Bobcaygeon
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[Verse 1] / I left your house this morning / 'Bout a quarter after nine / Coulda been the Willie Nelson / Coulda been the wine / [Verse 2] / When I left your house this morning
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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 – The Wherewithal
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Richard talks too slow / He'd get interrupted long before / I always loved that guy / And he's not on TV any more / To get out before / He had the wherewithal / To get out before
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The Tragically Hip – Fully Completely
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This is the title track of The Tragically Hip’s third album, Fully Completely (1992). In the live version of the song on the deluxe edition of the album, Gord Downie prefaces the
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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 – We'll Go Too
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To boldly clap / In a room full of nothing / You never know / It could be one of those / Poignant evenings / Museum's locked / And it's long since past closing / You cannot know
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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 – Ahead By A Century
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[Verse 1] / First thing we'd climb a tree / And maybe then we'd talk / Or sit silently / And listen to our thoughts / With illusions of someday / Cast in a golden light / No dress
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The Tragically Hip – Pigeon Camera
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[Verse 1] / It was handsome at the auction / Oh but when we got it home / It grew up into something we could / No longer contain / Where's our pigeon camera / By now he could be
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The Tragically Hip – So Hard Done By (Bonus Track)
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This alternate version of “So Hard Done By” was one of two bonus tracks released with the 2014 deluxe edition reissue of Fully Completely, along with “Radio Show.”
Both tracks
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The Tragically Hip – Looking For A Place To Happen
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[Verse 1] / 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
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The Tragically Hip – At the Hundredth Meridian
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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
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Lionized
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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
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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 – Eldorado
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He's a man-sized Eldorado / Hooved a doo / And who could blame him / Who could blame him / Where we going? / What's the ticket? / Just the mention of Berlin makes me sexy / It
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The Tragically Hip – The New Maybe
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You could write, you could think, you could have sex / You could leave your jewellery in a bowl beside the bed / Stare out the window, down the lawn to the lake / For as long as it
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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 – 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 – 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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The Tragically Hip – Three Pistols
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[Verse 1] / Well, Tom Thomson came paddling past / I'm pretty sure it was him / And he spoke softly in accordance to the / Growing of the dim / He said, "I'll bring on a brand new
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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 – It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken
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When the colour of the night / And all the smoke for one life / Gives way to shaky movements / Improvisational skills / A forest of whispering speakers / Let's swear that we will
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The Tragically Hip – Twist My Arm
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There she blows, Jacques Cousteau / Hear her sing so sweet and low / Lull me overboard, out cold / Gathered in and swallowed whole / Do I want to with all that charm? / Do I want
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