The Tragically Hip, often referred to simply as The Hip, is a Canadian Canada rock Rock music band Musical ensemble from Kingston, Ontario, consisting of Gordon Downie (lead vocals and guitar), Paul Langlois Paul Langlois (musician) (guitar), Rob Baker (guitar), Gord Sinclair (bass) and Johnny Fay (drums).
Their 2000 album Music at Work won Best Rock Album at the 2001 Juno Awards, as did their 1998 album Phantom Power... [read more] - Yawning Or Snarling
one day in el paso the cops go into the crowd under a glaring bladder of light and the music is so loud and the tourists take theirt-shirts off a busload of kids gives you the finger afternoon when the sidewalk's hot...
- Scared
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 kinda what i doif you're prepared, here's what I can put you through you're in russia and more than a...
- Daredevil
i can't imagine how you feel and this is how you feel you say your name like your no longer convinced but now they'restrapping you in and closing the lid and they're dropping you in what's done you did the bell's...
- So Hard Done By
interesting and sophisticated refusing to be celebrated it's a monumental big screen kiss it's so deep it's meaningless one dayyou'll just up and quit and that'll be it just then the stripper stopped in a coughing fit...
- Grace, Too
he said i'm fabulously rich c'mon just let's go she kinda bit her lip geez, i don't know but i can guarantee there'll be no knock onthe door i'm total pro that's what i'm here for i come from downtown born ready for...
- Emergency
i've often dreamt of a conversation that just keeps coming up again and again. we're sitting in the baby bar bereft at a shadowytable out past the sentences end from until it's no longer fun to that's no longer...
- Inevitability Of Death
puffy lips glistening skin and everything comes rushing in we don't go to hell memories of us doi get a sense of connectedness exclusive tight but nothing dangerous we don't go to hell memories of us do and if you go...
- Nautical Disaster
i had this dream where i relished the fray and the screaming filled my head all day. it was as though i had been spit here, settledin, into the pocket of a lighthouse on some rocky socket, off the coast of france,...
- Thugs
everyone's got their breaking point with me it's spiders and with you it's me thugs in perpetuity when we're excited little birdsaround the feeder the cat's indifferent or he's just furious it seems that he's never...
- Titanic Terrarium
growin up in a biosphere with no respect for bad weather there's still roaches and ants in here so resourceful and clever hergreatgrandfather saw the future didn't know nothing bout panic, he certainly probably...
- Greasy Jungle
greasy jungle metropolis noir easy tangles the easiest so far ah i drove down your road to hazeldean where I tasted your funeralhome's sandwiches and coffee i saw your hands melt into one another i saw you grieve and...
- Inch An Hour
i want a book that'll make me drunk full of freaks and disenfranchised punks no amount of hate no load of junk no bag orwords no costume trunk could make me feel the same way an inch an hour two feet a day to move...
- Fire In The Hole
you triumphed over will you had immunity to kill you had your dreams fulfilled and i love you still but there's a power beyondcontrol there's a fire in the hole ah the nights are getting cold all your secrets will be...
- Impossibilium
i love you even when i don't even know i'm doing it and dismiss it out of hand cause i don't even know i'm doing it but yourfinger starts to wiggle and landscapes emerge can you spare some change dear, we've only got...
- Last American Exit
you know the reasons i can't conceal you kow i'm leaving you obviously you know how i feel you know i'm tired of crawling'hind my name among the crowdit's not a matter for wrong or right it ain't much better than...
- Evelyn
evelyn - evelyn where were you last night? evelyn - evelyn where were you last night?waited on you front porch 'til the break of day but when dawn broke i could no longer wait for...chorusmust have phoned a million...
- Cemetery Sideroad
i had heart, but i used to be older i'm not like i used to be had you, but i guess it's all over you talk, but you're not like meyou talk and you talk like some weird saint what do you think that we could taint? when...
- Killing Time
i need your confidence need to konw you're mine when it gets right down to the killing time i know your heart is bad but it's alli've ever had we can live our lives on this righteous crimei got kicked when i was down...
- Highway Girl
i'm going down to see my highway girl she just back from around the world i'm gonna get me a gun, i'm gonna stand on guardin a little white booth in her front yardthrowing rocks at her window what could she do if i...
- Small Town Bringdown
been to reno drives an el camino can you dig that style?hip canteen you always make the scene you're a crazy childit's a sad thing bourbons all around to stop that feeling when you're living in a small townyou're long...
- I'm A Werewolf, Baby
the moon goes up, i start to sweat call the doctor, call the vet my brain goes numb, my blood gets hot all i need is what you goti'm a werewolf, baby, and here i come i'm a werewolf, baby, and here i comei lose...
- 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, theydon't have a face, i know that fact you've got, no girl could ever trace lionized, smoking...
- Courage
watch the band through a bunch of dancers quickly, follow the unknown with something more familiar quickly somethingfamiliar courage, my word it didn't come it doesn't mattersleepwalk, so fast asleep in a motel that...
- Wheat Kings
sundown in the paris of the prairies wheat kings have all their treasures buried and all you hear are the rusty breezes pushingaround the weather vane jesusin his zippo lighter, he sees the killer's face maybe it's...
- Locked In The Trunk Of A Car
they don't know how old i am, they found armour in my belly from the 16th century, conquistador, i think they don't knowhow old i am, they found armour in my belly passion out of machine-revving tension, lashing out...
- Fully Completely
bring me back in s***les, hang me long out in the sun, exonerate me, forget about me i recommend measures for ending itlover, she simply slammed the door she said, "you're gonna miss me" wait and you'll see" fully,...
- At The Hundredth Meridian
me debunk an american myth? and take my life in my hands? where the great plains begin, at the hundredth meridian at thehundredth meridian, where the great plains begindriving down a corduroy road, weeds standing...
- Fifty-Mission Cap
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 winanother until 1962, the year he was discovered i stole this from a hockey card, i keep...
- Eldorado
he's a man-sized Eldorado, hooved a doo and who could blame him where we going? what's the ticket? just the mention ofberlin makes me ***y and tired of thinking about drinking for thinking of drinking while thinking...
- We'll Go Too
to boldy clap in a room full of nothing you never know, it could be one of those poignant evenings museum's locked and it'slong since past closing, you cannot know, you cannot not know what you're knowing what can you...
- The Wherewithal
richard talks too slow he'd get interrupted long before i always loved that guy and he's not on t.v. anymore to get before he hadthe wherewithal to get out before he had the wherewithalyou've got to coax him slow,...
- 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 yo find a place, an ancient race the kindyou'd like to gamble with where they'd stamp on burning bags of shit looking for a...
- Pigeon Camera
it was handsome at the auction, oh but when we got it home, it grew up into something we could no longer contain where'sour pigeon camera, by now he could be anywhere and after all that training and after all that...
- Fight
we wake up different, rifle through our dreams another placid day, ripples at the seamsdo you think i bow out cause i think you're right? or cause i don't wanna fight? so tangle-minded then so becalmed it's all...
- Born In The Water
rolling hills all covered in suede i'm heat-nervous and out of road downtown, there's a parade but i don't think i wanna go smartas trees in sault ste. marie i can speak my mother tongue passing laws, just because and...
- The Luxury
zoo lion sobers up and starts to scream and shout a little dose of home-fire got him all smoothed out melancholy wine-soakedtenderness she hated it here and she couldn't care lessprisonyard stares and fleur-de-lis...
- 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 2.50for a hi-ball and a buck and a half for a beer happy hour, happy hour happy hour is...
- The Last Of The Unplucked Gems
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 youwhen the mystique varies thus you can send a man to bury us it's hard to say, it's sad but true...
- Cordelia
angst on the planks, spttin' from a bridge just to see how far down it really is robbing a bank, jumping on a train old antiques aman along can entertainit takes all your power to prove that you don't care i'm not...
- Long Time Running
does your mother tell you things? long, long when i'm gone? who you talking to? is hse telling you i'm the one? it's a gravemistake and i'm wide awakedrive-in's rained out weatherman wet-fingers the sky he pokes it...
- Fiddler's Green
september seventeen for a girl i know, it's mother's day her son has gone alee and that's where he will stay wind on theweathervane tearing blue eyes sailor-mean as falstaff sings a sorrowful refrain for a boy in...
- Twist My Arm
that she blows, jacques cousteau hear her sing so sweet and low lull me oberboard, out-cold gathered in and swallowed wholedo i want to? with all that charm? do i want to? twist my armyou just him where i live i guess...
- Bring It All Back
i'd been carving you to see what form you'd take you were hiding in ivory i just wanted to free your shapebringing me down, it's too quiet to breathe who wants to hear their heart beat?its gotta be here in your...
- On The Verge
here we are, now where are we? it's like nothing i've ever seen we got hoarse-throated huckster's whispered gimmicksrubbernecking the curious cynics and headlong-walkers, one born every minute do i plug it in? or do i...
- Three Pistols
tom thompson came paddling past i'm pretty sure it was him and he spoke so softly in accordance to the growing of the dim hesaid, "bring on the brand new renaissance cause i think i'm ready i've been shaking all night...
- Save The Planet
The man 'cross the street he don't move a muscleThough he's all covered in dustWhen constitutions of granite can't save the planetWhat's to become of usWith a painted restraint I don't move a muscleThough a turbine...
- Something On
Your imagination's having puppiesIt could be a video for new recruitsJust stare into the cameraAnd pretend that you got the fluOr dream of impossible vacationsAnd get all teary from the windLook as though you're...
- Emperor Penguin
I like the tone of your trumpetC'mon let's spill some paintLet's raise a glass of milk to The end of another dayAnd to the kiss that's still intangibleThe kids are alright just unmanageableThey won't do a damn thing...
- Bobcaygeon
I left your house this morning,'bout a quater after nine.Coulda been the Willie Nelson,coulda been the wine.When I left your house this morning,it was a little after nine.It was in Bobcaygeon, I saw the...
- Membership
Whether laying down yourself beside itOr slipping into its cool and rushing effectsOr drifting on it to where it broadensYour admiration for, for its more elusive aspectsBeing drawn along by itCarried under carried...
- Thompson Girl
Thompson Girl, I'm stranded at the Unique MotelThompson Girl winterfighter's shot on the car as wellLooks like Christmas at 55 degreesThis latitude weakens my knees, Thompson GirlGrunt work somewhere between dream and...
- Butts Wigglin
the sweet sound of patent approval comin' down in a not quite fog the sweet sound of patent approval comin' down inpowdery sparks the sweet sound of patent approval comin' down with holiday concern the sweet sound of...
- 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 lets stay...
- Gift Shop
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 theworld becomes a gift shopthe pendulum swings for the horse like a man out over the rim is...
- Sherpa
me and the vivid girl in our hammock to the stars staring into the fire before tv, the remote-control's on Mars in the dope of the pigment, in a poetic state of mind in a flood of country we lay down to kill...
- Springtime In Vienna
instructions from the manual could not have been much more plain the blues are still required the blues are still required againpast territorial piss-posts past whispers in the closets past screamin' from the rooftops...
- 700 Ft. Ceiling
lets go to the park, lets go watch 'em floodin' out there after dark, don't have to think of nothin' and i love that for, for the way i'm feeling 700 foot, 700 foot ceiling lets take...
- Flamenco
does it dimish your super-capacity to love walk like a matador, don't be chicken shit and turn breezes into rivulets flamenco-sweep the air and weave the sun and stamp your feet for...
- Apartment Song
illuminate the obvious it's standing right here in front of us what our apartment does when we're not around does not concern us simulate the obvious and it's standing,...
- Coconut Cream
there's a cannon shooting coconut cream 40 gallons in a steady stream there's a cannon shooting coconut cream 40 gallons in a steady stream it's wing music to a happy cat he...
- Don't Wake Daddy
sled dogs after dinner close their eyes on the howling' wastes kurt cobain, reincarnated, sighs and licks his face then they driftpast strips of serengeti and the gates of sleepy hollow too you can pause in wonder,...
- Put It Off
i wrote unfriendly things, truly cruel, on the day that you were born to prove that words cannot touch beauty but i was torn i put it off, i put it off, i put it off again i made...
- Ahead By A Century
first we'd climb a tree and maybe then we'd talk or sit silently and listen to our thoughts will illusions of someday casting agolden light no dress rehearsal, this is our lifethat's where the hornet stung me and i...
- Poets
(Drum Intro)(Guitar starts up, followed by another)Spring starts when a heartbeat's poundin'When the birds can be heard above the reckoning carts doing some final accountingLava flowing in Super Farmer's directionHe's...
- It Can't Be Nashville Every Night
He said, *** this and *** thatand this guys the diplomatStares into the blur of the tuner lightsIt cant be Nashville every nightHe said, we are what we lackand this guys the autodidactStares into...
- Highway Girl/Double Suicide
(Cheers) Gordie - Thank YouWell I'm going down to see my highway girlYeah she just got back from around the worldI'm gonna get me a gun, I'm gonna stand on guardIn a little white booth in her front yard. I'm...
- New Orleans Is Sinking
bourbon blues on the stree, loose and complete under skies all smokey blue-green i can't forsake a dixie dead-shake so wedanced the sidewalk clean my memory is muddy, what's this river that i'm in? new orleans is...
- Boots Or Hearts
well i think that there's a problem here her voice just don't sound right but i left myself on her answering machine said, "i'mback in town tonight" i feel i've stepped out of the wilderness all squint-eyed and...
- When The Weight Comes Down
afternoon, see a guy with rubies on his head and he's shifting like shifting like he was dead and he's hearing something, shenever said on his way back home, under his bedwhen the weight comes down when the weight...
- Trickle Down
old lion's dying, got left behind cut your teeth, lose your meat and man it's just a matter of time key's to the cuffs, you might beking that's it, that's all, that's everythingskeletons come here to dance where...
- Another Midnight
he was a coal miner in the spring blinded with its dusty resolutions broke his back for higher contributions now he'd takeanything well she was 1970 burning like a cigarette long season heir to all her family's old...
- Everytime You Go
like anyone i knew a dave drove a plymouth shallow grave said, "my girl don't just walk, she unfurls" with motorcycle languagehe stumbled through his slange pledgehe closed both his eyes and sort of gave her a kiss...
- Thirty-Eight Years Old
twelve men broke loose in seventy-three from millhaven maximum security twelve pictures lined up across the front pageseems the mounties had a summertime war to wage the chief told the people they had nothing to fear...
- Opiated
he bought two fifths of lead-free gasoline said, the bottle is dusty, but my engine is clean he bought a nice blue suit with themoney he could find if his bride didn't like it, st.peter wouldn't mindnow i lie here so...
- I'll Believe In You
well, it's 7 am and she awoke by the radio yea she rolled on over and said, "where did man go?" she's been a gunslinger's wifeall her life now she fights when she's able for the sake of the kids when the knife's at...
- Blow At High Dough
they shot a movie once, in my hometown everybody was in it, from miles around out at the speedway, some kinda elvis thingwell i ain't no movie star but i can get behind anything yea i can get behind anythingget it...
- She Didn't Know
born a queen on her side, and she felt it too there's a lot you can see when there's nothing to do she got down on her knees andshe dug herself out slipping to the east side and prancing aboutlearn a language baby,...
- Wild Mountain Honey
I don't wanna put another thought in my head.The hummingbird is cleared for maintenance,evacuating long after it made no sense.It's not so much a load and stay any moreas a gotta-get-down-the-road-before-the-...
- Stay
You did the best that you could do.You were a great crew,who tried to nurture and preserve your faith in you.And with the bureau chiefs and the shrugging spiesYou could stay, but why.You see a light and then...
- The Bear
I was first attracted by your scentYour heart must be a caramelized onionBy the time I saw your flameit was all over for you and whashisname.I think it was Algonquin ParkIt was so cold and winter-darkA promised...
- The Bastard
If you ask me how I knew, I saw you. I had a bird's-eye view of a bird's-eye view when I saw you.I saw you not as you think, simply just as you. I saw youAnd all of this augers welleven though it's presaging...
- Putting Down
Held a bird's egg between her breaststhere's reasons for the road, I guessto document the indigenous,to paint and sketchpaint and sketchI'm starting to fail to be impressed.United state of ricochetfrom the boardwalk...
- As I Wind Down The Pines
As I wind down the pinesit's the lines on your faceplaying on your faceWithout thinking so muchas abandoning thoughtI went through open countryover water meadows streamslakes and wires and roosts in reedsto a nest in...
- 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 and even when we're apart.I'll tell you a story about the Lake Fever or we can...
- Train Overnight
I loaded the variables like masterpieces from under the germ-led advance.I saw your compass on a sea of frayed cable and aspects of vision afloatin a glance.and outside the train overnight floodlights on...
- The Completists
You lured me with your diamond floweryou lured me with talk of still more talkyou lured me with caramelizing poweryou lured me a lotClearly lifeless barefeetand dogs just trained to sniffyou saw him strugglethen you...
- Toronto #4
Did you know you were the rock plug for all of usdid you know in the conduit of VesuviusYou were far more unifying than you knowI'm not a judge of suitablebut, you almost had it all.now you'll have to tell me...
- Sharks
Sharks don't attack the Irish, it's mostly Australians.There's nothing accomplished by these splashing citizens.from the Moon down to the surfaceof the Mariana's TrenchI won't send you in a cab whenI can take...
- Freak Turbulence
You're older, you're haunted, you're ahead of your time.In corners of acres of blocks of straight lines.Blurringly, hourly we cross some great dividessome heritage moments and some melodious minds...a...
- Tiger The Lion
This is Tiger the Liongimme the Knuckles of Frisco- If there's danger in the language, gentlemen,I suggest no further use of the two-way radio.'John Cage had come to feelthat art in our timewas far less...
- 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...
- Vaccination Scar
So the chemistry set,and I'm not the saddest cheerleaderto forget the american word.For the gang in the headthat dwindles 'til no members won.The mysteries met,the sky looks threatenedheading home in the dust,singing...
- The Darkest One
Come in, come in, come in, come inFrom under these darling skies come inIt's warm and it's safe here and almost harkeningOff to a time and place now lost in our imaginationWhere you don't complain- but you still doand...
- Silver Jet
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 inviolate light there's an urge to go, a shadow a heightened air of peril your...
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