HIP Lyrics, in support of The Tragically Hip

GREASY JUNGLE

Grea..a..asy jungle Metropolis noir

Ea..a..asy tangles, the easiest so far

Ah a a a a a a a

I drove - down your road

Hazeldean - where I tasted

Your funer-al home's - sandwiches and coffee

I saw - your hands melt - into one another

I saw - you grieve and grow - care a lot about one another

I stood - at your sink - and I felt - your warm water

I washed - your dishes - and I looked out your kitchen window

Where I saw a soulful - gymnast melt - in the air

And shudder - just above the snow - making moves that just weren't there

Ah a a a a a a a

Velvet callow - with wet hands I turned out the lights and - breathing -

shallow Hesitated then went upstairs - where I picked up - your housecoat

Dried my hands and touched your hair - and just then - you awoke

You could never really barely care

Ah a a a a a a a

Grea..a..asy jungle Metropolis noir - Le C'est Dar

HIGHWAY GIRL

Well, I’m goin’ down to see my Highway Girl

Yeah, she just back grom around the world

I’m gonna get me a gun

I’m gonna stand on guard

I..n..n a little white booth in-a her front yard

Throwin’ rocks at ‘er window, what could she do?
I..i..if ya throw enough rocks, one might break through
Well she looked out her window when the police ca..ame
Y..e..a..h, ta see a big tin man dancin’ in the rain

O..o..oh, my little Highway Girl
My..y..y, my little Highway Girl, Y..e..a..h,

{ Instra }

Don’t cha think babe you push a bit too fast
I said slowin’ down don’t make it last
Y..e..a..h, she said a mem-ory’s nev-gon set you free
A..a..h, go out and see that world, and bring it home to m..e..e

A...a..ah, my little Highway Girl
A..a.....A..a..ya, A..a..o..om, my little Highway Girl
A..a..ah, baby, baby, come on home, come on home, my little Highway Girl
A...a..ah, my little Highway Girl

I'LL BELIEVE IN YOU

Well, it's 7 AM, and she woke by the radio

Yeah, she rolled on over said "where did my man go?"

She's been a gunslinger's wife all her life now she fights when she's able

For the sake of the kids when the knife's at their necks in the cradle

She scre..e..eams

I'll believe in you, or I'll be leavin' you tonight

I will Believe in you, or I'll be leaving you tonight

Well, she's got all the kids, and she's got all their uses

But she loves them the same for neglect and abuses

Well she got a warm spot where they fought and they made up last evening

He said "Don't read too much into the fact that I'm leavin'"

She scre..e..eams

I'll believe in you, or I'll be leavin' you tonight

(3 X) I will Believe in you, or I'll be leaving you tonight

How do I explain this, I mean how do I put it into words

It's one thing or another, but it's neither this or that

Actually, it's a collection of things

She said "That's it, that's it, get o..o..out"

{ Instra }

Her mother said "kill him, slow at your leisure"

Ah, but desperate times call for desperate measures

So she went to the closet and she pulled the old gun down

"I'll put a bullet through his heart if he ain't home by sundown"

Yeah, 5:55 he comes walkin' in the front door smilin'

He said "don't read too much into what I ain't denyin'"

She scre..e..eams

I'll believe in you, or I'll be leavin' you tonight

(3 X) I will Believe in you, or I'll be leaving you tonight

Well I believe in you

Well I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe in you..who

Alright, yeah, MMM, yeah, yeah, yeah, ye..a..ah

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 even when we`re apart

Tell you a story about the Lake Fever

We can skip to the coital fury

You didn’t say yes or no, neither

You whispered hurry …. Hurry (x3)

We can take it a little bit further
We can stick to the after-effects part
Not trying to make you a believer
Don`t wanna a lil` piece of your heart
Just telling you a story about the Lake fever
Or we can skip to a neutral fury
You didn`t say yes or no neither
You whispered, hurry

(want to be a nobody without peer)                    ;    Hurry
(want to be a thought that`s never done)          ;    Hurry
(want to shake your faith in human nature)   ;    Hurry
(want to break the hearts of everyone)

Wanna be your wheezing screen door
Wanna be your stars of Algonquin
Wanna be your roaring floorboard
Wanna break the hearts of everyo….o..one
Cause discontent until they ceasing their invest-i-gation
Bring back the days events, Good citezins
Time well spent, til we`re talking in whispers again
(You whispered hurry)
Until we`re talking in whispers again (x4)

LIONIZED

Cold wind blowin' over your private parts

I know what 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 girl could ever trace

Li..i..ionized

Smoking just a little too violently

I know that fact I've got

And I know it single-mindedly

Stupid, stoned cause and effect

I know a lack you've got

And you don't even lack it yet

Li..i..ionized

Tav-blou-vi-von, lom-mam-bam

I can't draw, but I can trace

I know a lack I've got

An abundance of extra space

Cold wind blowin' over your private parts

I know a lack you've got is to make a strong case for art

Li..i..ionized

Li..i..ionized { Tambourine starts }

Tav-blou-vi-von, lom-mam-bam

LITTLE BONES

It gets so sticky down here

Better butter your cue finger up

I'ts the start of another new year

Better call the newspaper up

Two-fifty for a high ball, and a buck and a half for a beer

Happy hour...happy hour, happy hour is he..r..re

The long days of Shockley are gone

So is football Kennedy style

Famous last words taken all wrong

Wind up on the very same pile

Two-fifty for a decade, and a buck and a half for a year

Happy hour...happy hour, happy hour is he..r..re

I can cry, beg and whine. T'every rebel I find

Just to give me a line. I can use to describe.....They'd say...

Baby eat this chicken slow, it's full of all them little bones

Baby eat this chicken slow, it's full of all them little bo..o..nes

So Regal and decadent he...re

Coffin cheaters dance on their gra..ves

Music, all it's delicate fe..ar

Is the only thing that don't cha...nge

Two-fifty for an eyeball, and a buck and a half for an ea..a..r

Happy hour...happy hour, happy hour is he..r..re

Well nothin's dead down he..e..re, it's just a little tired

Nothin's dead down he..e..re, it's just a little ti..i.ired

NNNNothin's dead down here. Just a little tired....

Nothin's dead down he..e..re.......It's just a little tired.

{ Instra }

Ohhhh...

2 x Baby eat this chicken slow. It's full of all them little bones

Little bones...full of all them little bones...MMMM

Little bones.....

LOCKED IN THE TRUNK OF A CAR

They don't know how old I am, they found armor in my belly

From the 16th centry, conquistador I think

They don't know how old I am, they found armor in my belly

Passion out a machine reving tension

Lashin' out at machine reving tension

Rushin' by the machine reving tension

Mo-rning broke out the back side of a truck stop

It's the end of the line a real rainbow likening luck stop

Well you could say I becam chronilogically fucked up

Put ten bucks in just to get the tank topped off

Then I found a place that's dark and it's rotted

It's a cool sweet kinda place where the copters can't spot it

And I destroyed the map I even thought I forgot it

However every day I'm dumpin' the body

It's better for us if you don't understand

It's better for me if you don't understand

Ya { Instra }

Then I found a place that's dark and it's rotted

It's a cool sweet kinda place where the copters can't spot it

And I destroyed the map that I carefully dotted

However every day I'm dumpin' the body

I'd be better for us if you don't understand

I'd be better for me if you don't understand

Let Me out ..... (X 7)

LONG TIME RUNNING

Does your mother tell you things?

Long, long, when I'm gone

Who you talkin' to?

Is she telling you, I'm the one?

I'ts 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 why

It's the same mistake

It's been a lo..oo.oo.ng time runnin'

It's been a lo..oo.oo.ng time comin'

It's well worth the wait

Don't go anywhere, just on trips

We have'nt seen a thing

We still don't know where it i..i..i.i..i..s

It's a safe mistake

It's been a lo..oo.oo.ng time runnin'

It's been a lo..oo.oo.ng time comin'

Well, well, it's all the same mistake

Dead to rights and wide awake

I'll drop a caribou, I'll tell on you, tell on you, tell on yo.oo.ooo..u

You got a boat-load o'nerve

I would say that you've been told

You work me against my friends

And you'll get left out in the cold

It's the same mistake

It's been a lo..oo.oo.ng time runnin'

It's been a lo..oo.oo.ng time comin'

It's been a long, long, lo..oo.oo.ng time runnin'

It's well worth the wait

It's well wo..oo..orth the wait

LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO HAPPEN

I've got a job, I explore, I follow every 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

Where they'd stamp on burning bags of shit

Lookin' for a place to ha..a..pen

Makin' stops along the wa..a...a..hay

Wayward ho! Away we go

It's a shame to leave this masterpiece

With it's gallery gods and it's garbage-bag trees

So I'll paint a scene, from memory

So I'd know who murdered me

It's a vain pursuit, but it helps me to sleep

Lookin' for a place to ha..a..pen

Makin' stops along the wa..a...hay

Lookin' for a place to ha..a..pen

Makin' stops along the wa..a...hay...a.....h..a

{ Instra }

Lookin' for a place to ha....a.a a..pen

Makin' stops along the wa..a...hay

Jacques Cartier, right this way,

I'll put your coat up on the bed

Hey man you've got the real bum's eye for clothes

A..a...and come on in, sit right down

No you're not the first to show...ho

We've all been here since, God, who kno..o..ows?

Lookin' for a place to ha..a..pen

Makin' stops along the wa..a...hay

Lookin' for a place to ha..a..pen

Makin' stops along the wa..a...hay

Jacques Cartier, right this way,

Ahhh...I'll put your coat up on the bed

Hmmm, you've got the real bum's eye for clothes

Come on in, sit right down

MEMBERSHIP

Whether layin’ down, yourself beside it,

Or slippin’ into, it’s coolin’ rushin’ effects

Or driftin’ on it, to where it broadens

The admiration for, for it’s more elusive a..a..spects

Being drawn along by it, carried under, carried away

By it’s long-term, membership

By the time the ice huts hit the bottom,
We were already home in bed
The most worthy men, and their 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 it’s long-term membership…….Ahh…….{ Instra }

Bring on the springtime, bring on the houseflies,
Bring on the butterscotch, river over-spilling it’s banks
If you got you some witherin power to amuse
You’ll find it’s greatest frustration, has it’s entertainin’ value

Being drawn along by it, carried under, carried away
By it’s long-term membership….Ah..Ah..Ah…
Being drawn along by it, carried under, carried away
By it’s long-term membership

Ah..AhAh..River wide, River wonder us

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 … (2x)

Avoid trends and cli-ches, don't try ta be up ta 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 to-o 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, in my music at work, My...(2x)

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 (2x)
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 (3x)
La lalala lala--la lalala lala-a--la lalala lala--la lalala lala lala

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 … (2x)
Hey fallen humming bird
My music …from the middle of the earth
My music …bound for bed without dessert
My music …it’s my music …my music at work

NAUTICAL DISASTER

I had this dream, where I relished, the fray

And the screaming filled my head all day

It was 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, ten only

Anythin', that systematic would get you hated

It's not a deal nor a test nor a -- a love of something fated -- death

The selection was quick, the crew was picked -- and those left in the water

Got kicked off our pantleg -- and we headed for home

{ Instra }

Then the dream ends -- when the phone rings

You doin' alright -- he said it's out there, most days and nights

But only a fool would complain

Anyway, Susan, if you like, our con-versation

Is as faint as a sound, In my memory

As those fingernails scratching on my hull

NEW ORLEANS IS SINKIN'

Bourbon blues on the street, loose and complete

Under skies, all smokey 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 sinkin' man and I don't wanna swim

Colonel Tom, what's wrong? What's goin' on?

Can't tie yourself up for a deal

He said "Hey North, your South, shut your big mouth,

You gotta do what you feel is re..e..al"

Ain't got no picture postcards, ain't got no souvenirs,

My baby, she don't know me

When I'm thinkin' 'bout those years

Pale as a lightbulb, hangin' on a wire

Suckin' up to someone, just to stoke the fire

Pickin' 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 top the Lord above,

and said "hey man thanks"

Sommmme times I feel so good I gotta scream

She said Gordie baby I know exactly what you mean

She said, Ah she said, I swear ta God she said....

Wooo..ooo...ooo..oo...Na......Naa..a..a

Wooo..ooo...ooo...Na......Yeah.....

My memory is muddy, what's this river that I'm in?

New Orleans is sinkin' man and I don't wanna swim

Swim

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 the money he could find

If his bride didn't like it, St. Peter wouldn't mind

Now I lie here so out-of-breath and

Over-opiated

Maybe I couldn't catch up, no but

Maybe he could of waited

Well the medicine man started seeing red

You think the snake just dreams up the poison in his head

Addicted to approval, addicted to the air

It was see if you like it or see you up there

(3 X) Now I lie here so out-of-breath and

Over-opiated

Maybe I couldn't catch up, no but

Maybe he could of waited

PIGEON CAMERA

It was handsome at the auction

Oh but when we got it home

It grew up into-who something we could

no longer contai-hain

< Pause >

Where's our pigeon cam-era

By now he could be anywhere

And after all that traini-hing

And after all that training

Was something we could no longer contai-hain

It's boring, I'm embarrassed

I don't endorse that..a..hat, I didn't want this

< Pause >

This house it has it politics

Over there that's my room

And tha..at's my sister-her's

And tha..at's my sister

Was something we could no longer contai-hain

It's boring, I'm embarrassed

I don't endorse that..a..hat; I didn't want this

It's horrific, I'm embarrassed

I didn't want that, I didn't want thi...i..i.i.is

It's like we burned our boots with no

contingency plan

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