The Hip Covers Project: Justin Rutledge - Nautical Disaster

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'The Hip Covers Project' is a gathering of many different versions by many different people of Tragically Hip songs. Old or new. Fast or slow. Solo or ensemble. Plugged in or unplugged. The goals of this project include providing entertainment and inspiration for our readers, and giving exposure to the artists.

I am always searching out new and interesting versions of songs. I like when a song can be completely different than its original version. I don't care if it's something you saw or it's you and your band. I don't care if it's professionally shot or done by you in your bedroom. Whatever. If you have any suggestions for this project please send them to mrjackstraw@gmail.com

We're going to start off with Justin Rutledge covering The Hip's Nautical Disaster off of their 'Day For Night' album...



JUSTIN RUTLEDGE - Nautical Disaster by The Tragically Hip from Southern Souls on Vimeo.


www.justinrutledge.com
@JustinJRutledge


I am planning to add a new video at least once a week. Maybe more. I will be hosting them on the website here and blasting them out via the HipTour Facebook Page & Twitter @hiptour, so be sure to follow along however you choose.

When making suggestions or possibly deciding on a cover, remember that there are a few songs like Wheat Kings, Fiddler's Green, Bobcaygeon, ABAC & boots Or Hearts that have been covered by everybody and their brother and it's going to take a pretty special or unique version to get one of those posted. I'd be more inclined to share someone trying an acoustic 'Tiger The Lion' or something random like that.






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The Hip To Play 2013 Salmonfest in Newfoundland

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The Hip are coming to The Rock!






Word on the street is that The Tragically Hip will be a part of the July 13th concert line-up at the Exploits Valley Salmon Festival that also includes The Eagles as the head-liners. It will be a rare billing slot for Canada's favourite rock & roll band on their home turf, acting as an opener, and I'm sure they will give The Eagles a run for their money. The festival is located in Grand Falls.

The festival website is currently under construction and I don't have any ticket info for you at this time. When I get more confirmed details, I will pass them on. Until then, stockpile your Screech.

The tickets go on-sale on April 26, 2013.

Here's a few more details from the GFW Advertiser...

The Details
Tickets for the Salmon Festival Concert will go on sale Friday, April 26 and will be available to purchase by phone, online, and at Needs convenience stores across the province. A limited number of early bird tickets will be available for the price of $119.75 and after that tickets will cost $134.75.

There will also be a VIP section available with some minor changes from last year. This year, only concertgoers 19 and older will be permitted in the VIP section. VIP tickets are limited, and cost $221. All ticket prices are before taxes and surcharges. Booking information for campsites will come at a later date.

“We consider the price for this level of entertainment to be a bargain price really,” said Hawkins. “We believe we’ve done a great job in getting the level of entertainment we’re getting for the price.”

Hawkins said he expects the early bird and VIP tickets to sell fast, and suggested people get their tickets as soon as possible after they go on sale.


And now a word from our sponsor: Sarcasm >>>>

Thank gawd there's going to be a VIP section... I don't know how you could ever run a quality music festival without separating the herd? Can you believe in the olden days VIP fans and the regular fans actually had to co-mingle? It's true.




Oh, and enjoy this one...





you were never more hear expanse getting broader when better boats been done by this water where bigger boats been done by less water and better boats been done by this water when bigger boats been done by less water and better boats been done by this water




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Setlist Art: 2013 Canadian Winter Tour

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Here's every song from every city The Tragically Hip played this past tour. If you went to each of these shows, this is what you saw. Of course you would have seen some songs more than others...






You can see the individual setlists and show notes and SetlistArt by clicking the links below...

2013 CANADIAN WINTER TOUR & SETLIST ART
2013/01/19 - Cranbrook, BC
2013/01/20 - Kamloops, BC
2013/01/22 - Red Deer, AB
2013/01/23 - Edmonton, AB
2013/01/25 - Regina, SK
2013/01/26 - Winnipeg, MB
2013/01/28 - Brandon, MB
2013/01/29 - Thunder Bay, ON
2013/02/01 - Moncton, NB
2013/02/02 - Halifax, NS
2013/02/04 - Kingston, ON
2013/02/05 - Kitchener, ON
2013/02/08 - Guelph, ON
2013/02/09 - Oshawa, ON
2013/02/11 - Sudbury, ON
2013/02/12 - Sault Ste Marie, ON
2013/02/14 - Toronto, ON

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Streets Ahead - Lyrics

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Last played: 2013/02/14 Toronto, ON
Debut: 2012/02/16 Fort Albany, ON
Album: Now For Plan A (2012)
Notes:


You were streets ahead
I couldn't sleep a wink
Staring in the dark
By the light of your skin
At myself sitting
On a suitcase
Or as the sleeping youth
In the upset sleigh

They don't wait they won't wait
They run with the weather
They don't wait

Listen you can hear
The sound of the sleigh
The panting of the team
Of all runners away
And all the gentle work
Of the traces
Their jingle-jangle jerk
Destroying all space

They won't wait they don't wait
They run with the weather
They don't wait
They don't wait they won't wait
Just stay together
They don't wait

Wait. Wait! Wait! Wait.
Please, just stay together

They don't wait they won't wait
They run with the weather
They don't wait
They don't wait they won't wait
Just stay together
They don't wait

Wait. Wait! Wait! Wait.
Please just stay together


Next song: Now For Plan A
Previous song: We Want To Be It




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We Want To Be It - Lyrics

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Last played:
Debut: 2012/02/16 Fort Albany, ON
Album: Now For Plan A (2012)
Notes: Played often on the 'Now For Plan A Tour' and for good reason - It's probably my favourite song on this album... For now anyway.


drip drip drip
Baby when'd you get so Zen
When I used to know you when
When you thought all my dreams suct
I was just happy you gave a fuck

And we don't want to do it
We want to be it

tick tick tick
The Smartest Guy In The Room
flick flick
Might as well be on the moon
click click
Or in his tower or his tomb
cricket
Cause all I'm hearing is you

And we don't want to do it
We want to be it

drip drip drip
Baby, when'd you get so wrecked
And where are things at this moment
And all our friends gave us a week
And we're still happening as we speak

And we don't want to do it.
We want to be it

O drip drip drip
We don't want to do it
We want to be it

drip drip drip
flick flick flick
cricket cricket
cricket cricket cricket


(For Alan Arkin and Madeline Kahn)



Next song: Streets Ahead
Previous song: The Lookahead




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The Lookahead - Lyrics

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Last played: 2013/02/14 Toronto, ON
Debut: 2012/02/16 Fort Albany, ON
Album: Now For Plan A (2012)
Notes: Sarah Harmer features on the album version of this song and appeared twice with The Hip on the


I go back to the water
When I get nowhere in the air
I thought you should know it's no worse
Covering ground you've heard before

It's a power of power of power of power of
Free and easy
It's a power of power of power of power of
Free and easy

You weigh a snowflake
Cause great trees to fall
Descending
On perfect arms
Like Jeff Beck
To give me the lookahead

I go back to the brusque nurse
Her heart a bad cake in a melting box
I thought you should know it's no worse
Her blood is still clear and sanguineous

It's a power of power of power of power of
Free and easy
It's a power of power of power of power of
Free and easy

You weigh a snowflake
The glamour of the sky
Descending
Past perfect eyes
And hearts leapt
To give me the lookahead
C'mon honey just gimme that lookahead


Next song: We Want To Be It
Previous song: Man Machine Poem




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Man Machine Poem - Lyrics

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Last played: 2013/02/14 Toronto, ON
Debut: 2012/02/16 Fort Albany, ON
Album: Now For Plan A (2012)
Notes: Played at every show on the 'Now For Plan A' Fall/Winter tour.


See
It works
In monkeys
You're right
Again
But it is a thin win

Man Machine Poem

Breathtake
Ingly
The Egg Thief
His wins
Are thin
Avocet and peregrine

Man Machine Poem

Yer beau
Tiful
Terrific
Your eyes
Empty
Pacifics

Man Machine Poem

Man Machine Poem


Next song: The Lookahead
Previous song: At Transformation




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At Transformation - Lyrics

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Last played: 2013/02/14 Toronto, ON
Debut: 2012/02/16 Fort Albany, ON
Album: Now For Plan A (2012)
Notes: The first single released off of the 'Now For Plan A' album. At Transformation opened pretty much all of the shows on the 'Now For Plan A Tour'. Time will tell how much staying power it has...


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 than importance

I want to help you lift enormous things
A pinch a sting I don't feel a thing
But as the earth revolved around the sun

All those shadows waiting round the last lights
To the dream of being here comes the night
All of the tiptoeing past all our most-feared buildings
I only say this now because I didn't when it was happening

I want to help you lift enormous things
A pinch a sting I don't feel a thing

But as the earth revolves around the Sun
I can see it all at once
And O what a glittering chance
In my head the game goes quiet
And I can see it all at once
Them yelling 'Yer not the goods!
- A kid before the rapids!'
But in my head the game is quiet
And O what a glittering chance
O what a glittering chance
O what a glittering chance

At transformation
At transformation

That's my dream of being
That's my dream of being
That's my dream of being
That's my dream of being


Next song: Man Machine Poem




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Country Day - Lyrics

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Last played: 2009/06/04 Lewiston, NY
Debut: 2009/04/24 Toronto, ON
Notes: Country Day has only been played 7 times live. I love this song. I think it had awesome potential as a live concert vehicle. It baffles me that they never ran this one out more. Baffles.


Country day a day in the unknown
A gentle breeze gently blowin' country day
Country day another day in the unknown
I can feel it in my bones country day

We're Mr and Mrs Smoke and things are finally clickin'
Still having trouble with the things that aren't meaningful
But yea really clickin'
Our dreams are where we're at what we can see and touch
With work we understand we don't want for much

Country day a day in the unknown
A gentle breeze gently blowin country day
Country day another day in the unknown
I can feel it in my bones country day

You infiltrate my life you resonate with meaning
I wrote I love you on a rock one night
And threw it never dreaming
Now our dreams are where we're at what we can feel and touch
it's work we understand we don't want for much

Country day a day in the unknown
A gentle breeze gently blows country day
Country day another day in the unknown
I can feel it deep in my bones country day

And that rock it missed your head
Though it didn't miss by much
I remember what you said
No I mean it I am touched
And somehow it is enough

So God keep our Land cuz we certainly can't
Until the darkness ends until the sun tries again
Our dreams are where we're at what we can smell and touch
Work we understand we don't want too much

Country day a day in the unknown
Where they been where we're goin' country day
Country day another day in the unknown
Gently drawing to a close country day


Previous song: Love Is A First




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Love Is A First - Lyrics

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Last played: 2013/02/14 Toronto, ON
Debut: 2009/04/27 Kitchener, ON
Notes: The first single released from 'We Are The Same'. It was a setlist throughout the 2009 'WATS Tour' and continues to be. It's a very unique song and I'm sure it has its fans as well as its detractors. Me? I'm fine if I hear it and I'm fine if I don't.


I've been interpreted and shrunk
I've been as touch-less 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 (That he who would own it deserves)
Love is a curse (You get what you give not deserve)

I know I know this is all just first blurts that he who would try to own it deserves it
And I know it's got nothing to do with ‘deserves it'
It's just that you don't just blurt, Love is a curse Love is a curse Love is a curse
You don't just blurt, Love is a curse

Though I've been too weak to escape
And I don't have the strength to pluck a grape

Though it's as bad as worse as bad as or worse
Though it's as bad as or worse as bad as or worse

Love is a first (I've felt the dull fangs of the truth)
Love is a first (I've heard the music they torture to)
Love is a first (I saw Old Power enforced)
Love is a first (I was more the Devil Of Darkness' horse)

I drank the poison from the source
And smoked that murder fell on the floor
And watched the near-death of your TV
And dreamed its darkly nurtured dreams
And drained my ocean of its worth
Like God's representatives on earth
Learned how to hurt and how not to hurt
The thing you taught me what I learned?
Love is a first

Though it's as bad as or worse as bad as or worse
As bad as or worse as bad as or worse

Love is a curse (That he who would own it deserves)
Love is a first (Though it occurs and occurs)
Love is a curse (You get what you give not deserve)
Love is a first (Love just occurs and occurs)

Love is a first


Next song: Country Day
Previous song: Frozen In My Tracks




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Happy Spring! ...time in Vienna

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Happy Vernal Equinox! Say goodbye to winter Hipheads! Patio weather is heading our way. Of course in my case living in San Diego these days it's pretty much patio season all year long, but you get the gist. We're all in this together!






Springtime In Vienna Digital Lyric Art





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Frozen In My Tracks - Lyrics

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Last played: 2009/12/03 Glasgow, SCO
Debut: 2009/05/01 Montreal, QC
Notes: Only played in 2009 so far. Over half (25 of 46) appearances have come in the encore.


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 be frozen in your tracks
Frozen in your tracks

Sometimes, when we're talking
I feel like yer not even listening
It's then that I clearly remember
Rarely ever seeing you listening
You said, When you gonna realize
You really have no sense of yourself?
There's no way to take it back
You'll be frozen in your tracks

Yer simpler than the rest you don't do stupid games
Yer not more complex you don't lay ‘violent blame'

Tonight, I was walking
Feeling alone on the planet
When all at once something stopped me
I realized I'd taken you for granted
And tonight I realized
I really have no sense of myself
No way to take it back
I am frozen in my tracks
I'm frozen in my tracks
Frozen in my tracks


Next song: Love Is A First
Previous song: Speed River




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Speed River - Lyrics

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Last played: 2009/06/05 Lewiston, NY
Debut: 2009/04/29 Kitchener, ON
Notes: The live performance lifespan of Speed River lasted just over a month during which time it was played 11 times in total. Curious since Wikipedia notes it as being a 'released single' from the album 'We Are The Same'. If there was ever going to be a bust-out of this song, I suspect it would have happened at the 2013/02/08 Guelph, ON show since that's the first time The Hip have played Guelph (where Speed River is) since the album's release. If they weren't going to bust it out for the Guelphites (I looked that up), it's probably not going to be heard from again.


You're visually
Stunning, I'm almost shivering
You'd become
Anyone, don't hate who you have to be

Speed River take me away
Speed River take me away
Speed River take me away

Hard stuff
Gimme a dose of the hard stuff
Ok. Enough!
Ok, enough of the hard stuff

Speed River take me away
Speed River take me away
Speed River take me away

Away from this, away from this

Awake enough
This feels like I've been here before
You said, Don't be tough, lets go back
I said, Let's go forward
Speed River take me away
Speed River took ya away
Speed River took her away

Away from this, away this minute

This house
Sounds just like a bomb hit it
It's an old sound
That says, if you asked me to, I'd relive it

Speed River take me away
Speed River take me away
Speed River take me away

Away from this away this minute away for one moment away from this feeling
From Feeling this away
Away from this moment away from this feeling from feeling this away
Away from this...


Next song: Frozen In My Tracks
Previous song: Queen Of The Furrows




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Cordelia T-Shirts Have Arrived!

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Good times! Good times!




All Cordelia pre-orders will be shipping out today (2013/03/19)...

I have a few left from this lot that are unsold. I also have new supplies of the "Little Bones" t-shirt.

There is still plenty of time to get ready for 'summer tour'. Check out the shop at: http://hiptourshop.bigcartel.com/





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Queen Of The Furrows - Lyrics

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Last played: 2009/10/28 Solona Beach, CA
Debut: 2009/04/28 Kitchener, ON
Notes: Played just 22 times on the 2009 'WATS Tour', but for some reason made the setlist 3 nights in a row all at the same venue no less! Artpark in Lewiston, NY... Meaning that it has been played more times in Lewiston, NY than in Toronto. Of course that means nothing. I'm not big on ranking songs, but for my money Queen Of The Furrows is a top 3 song on this album along with The Depression Suite and Country Day.


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 bureau
To be apart? Is that why you have to go?

To Conversation City everybody's talkin
You must have something to say
Conversation City making conversation
Working at it night and day

Watch yerself! I say to my Toasted Western
This is how I feel and it's when I learn the most
You are my heart yer my Queen of the Furrows
This is how I feel hens cluck and roosters crow

I'm in the night fields everything dark yellow
I'm making my way by feel by my neighbours glow

You are my heart oh my Queen of the Furrows
This is how I farm eyes up and ears down low
You are my heart you're my Queen of the Furrows
This is how I feel hens cluck and roosters crow
This is how I feel...

But in Conversation City everybody's talkin'
You must have something to say
Conversation City making conversation
Working at it night and day

You are my heart oh my Queen of the Furrows
This is how I farm eyes up and ears down low
You are my heart you're my Queen of the Furrows
This is how I feel hens cluck and roosters crow
You are my heart this is how I feel
You are my heart this is how I feel
You are my heart this how I feel
This is how I feel
This is how I feel
This is how I feel


Next song: Speed River
Previous song: The Exact Feeling




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The Exact Feeling - Lyrics

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Last played: 2009/10/03 Hamilton, ON
Debut: 2009/04/24 Toronto, ON
Notes: Played live just 18 times, all in 2009.


The exact feeling is coming back around
The tiger's wheeling
And covering some ground
I'm up to my torch, I'm up to my tits
Maybe I got no more innarest
In the exact feeling

Is all I ever tried to do
The perimeter, the ceiling
Just to dribble somewhere new
I'd be on my hands, I'd be on my knees
Saying, Hey! Bartender! One more of these
For the exact feeling

The exact feeling
Maybe isn't what I think
Not the singularity
Of a thousand million dreams
Not a prosperity that means
I never have to say a thing
Maybe the exact feeling
Is on the other side of this feeling

I remember stealing - huh - lying begging loneliness
Flying falling kneeling, trying to get em to notice
I'm not being sad, not being dear
I only wanna stay with you right here
In this exact feeling
In your exact feeling
In this exact feeling
In your exact feeling


Next song: Queen Of The Furrows
Previous song: The Depression Suite




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The Depression Suite - Lyrics

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Last played: 2009/12/04 Glasgow, SCO
Debut: 2009/04/24 Toronto
Notes: I've long considered Little Bones to be The Tragically Hip's anthem. It just always seemed to capture their essence in every way. It's a hit that's not a hit. It plays as well in a stadium as it does a bar-room. If somebody who had never heard the band were to ask you what they were all about, you could play Little Bones and it would convey most of what you'd being trying to pass along. If Little Bones is The Hip's anthem, The Depression Suite is definitely their opus. Their Terrapin Station if-you-will. These 2 songs are so different yet so Hip to the core. I had been waiting a long time for The Hip to construct something like The Depression Suite. If the lack of a keyboardist is the reason it hasn't (along with some others) been played since the 2009 'WATS Tour' then it's time for the band to pay up for someone to fill that seat permanently. It would be a crying fucking shame if this song were never played live again... whatever the reason.


The Depression Suite

The Rock
Under the pillow
I bury my head and try and 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 a little room to breathe
the early morning light's a pale cranberry
I hear the Aaa-aah-aah not now-wow-wow
of a siren faraway and closing steadily

saying Are you going through something?
Are you going through something?
cuz I - I - I - I I am too

Under the pillow
I can hear you whisperin' are you going through something?

well honey are you going through something?
Are you going through something?
Then I - I - I - I I am too
Then I - I - I - I I am too

Then I - I - I - I

I am too


New Orleans World
Gimme gimme gimme gimme-gimme
Gimme an opportunity gimme-gimme
Put me put me put me put me-put me
In the saddle I'll ride you'll see

There's new work in the Day Room
I can't lounge on-line
Don't you laugh
I'd sell a giraffe and I'd give you half
Just to occupy my mind

I'll be driven my eyes always moving
I'll be riveted to the task yea
No smiling! That's important
I will make my face a mask

And I'm thinking just in passing
What if this song does nothing?
What if this song does nothing

Working in the new NewOrleansWorld
I'm emptying slots working like a ghost
I move through huge rooms with no windows
And no Gulf of Mexico

Gimmegimmegimme gimme-gimme
Gimme an opportunity gimme-gimme
Put me put me put me put me-put me
In the saddle please

I'll be driven my eyes always moving
I'll be riveted to the task yea
No smiling! That's so important
I will make my face a mask

And I'm thinking just in passing
What if this song does nothing?
What if this song does nothing?
What if this song does nothing
What if this song does nothing

Don't You Wanna See How It Ends?
Bring on the requisite strangeness
It always has to get a little weird a little weird
Yea you just bring on the requisite strangeness
Bring it on then disappear disappear
Go to be a man of the boom
To Florida without the ocean
But
Don't you wanna see how it ends?
When the door is just starting to open?
When Athabasca depends?
Don't you wanna see how it ends

I can hear you
But I can't stay here
You left me lost in the Barrens
You left me born on the stairs
It's minus 11
Inside my kettle
I didn't come to get lost in the Barrens
I didn't come to settle
To be a man on the moon
To get my little slice of heaven
Yeah
Don't you wanna see how it ends?
When the door is just starting to open?
And Athabasca depends
Doncha wanna see how it ends

Don't you wanna see how it ends?
The door is just starting to open.
Athabasca depends.
Don't you wanna see how it ends?
Yeah
Don't you wanna see how it ends?
I'm holding the door to the Barrens
And Athabasca depends
Doncha wanna see how it ends?

Next song: The Exact Feeling
Previous song: Now The Struggle Has A Name




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Now The Struggle Has A Name - Lyrics

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Last played: 2009/12/02 Manchester, ENG
Debut: 2009/04/27 Kitchener, ON
Notes: Never played live outside of the 2009 'WATS Tour'.


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
Now the struggle has a name
And Honey Watson I struggle on

Oh Honey Watson we were born with sin
Some truth some reconciliation and gone with the wind
If it feeds the need If it dies it dies

Now the struggle has a name
We are the same it hasn't changed
I still feel the same
Now the struggle has a name
Honey Watson I struggle on

Gone like an attraction
Like the sun in a mirror
Gone like it was destined
To simply disappear

Gone like Honey Watson applause can begin

The song is almost done applause begins

Now the struggle has a name
It doesn't fade it hasn't changed
I still feel the same
Now the struggle has a name

Now the struggle has a name
We are the same it hasn't changed
I still feel the same
Now the struggle has a name
And Honey Watson
I struggle on

Next song: The Depression Suite
Previous song: Coffee Girl




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Coffee Girl - Lyrics

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Last played: 2012/12/07 Seattle, WA
Debut: 2009/04/24 Toronto, ON
Notes: Played just 3 times since being a staple on the 2009 'WATS Tour'.


It's hard to leave your bed
The cool and hard summer sheets
Hangover hanging on by the fangs
Walk to work on wild feet
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
Beautiful and disaffected
It was perfect til
He came along and wrecked it

Your favourite mixed tape
You popped it into the deck
Don't care its out of date
Ol Cat Power and Classic Beck
Beware Purveyors of Cool
With their compacts of one
Taking cannons to fools
When all you need's a BB gun

Hey there Coffee Girl
Beautiful and disaffected
It was perfect til
He came along and wrecked it

One night he'll make you choose
I am sorry but he will
The Hardscape or your shoes
When the moon's behind the hill

Hey there Coffee Girl
Beautiful and disaffected
It was perfect til
He came along and wrecked it
Hey there Coffee Girl
Hey Coffee Girl
Hey there Coffee Girl
Hey there Coffee girl



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Next song: Now The Struggle Has A Name
Previous song: The Last Recluse




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Vapour Trails: 1998/07/07 London, ON

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A little something for ya heading into the weekend...





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The Last Recluse - Lyrics

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Last played: 2009/11/30 London, England
Debut: 2009/04/24 Toronto, ON
Notes:


We rode hard for the boat hard as we could

No tears you said understood?
Understood!?

I said, 'Awright'

'A crowd will be born'
'Only born die'
I'm not one to watch for a sign in the night
Or to watch 'a bomb go off in a young girls life'

Who are you? The Last Recluse?
Who are you? The Last Canada Goose?
Who are you? What is it with you?
Who are you? Who are you?
When the wind comes up and the surface of the water scuffs

- Enough! Enough! - the ferry whistle cried

Just ride you said
Ride and shut up

I jumped on board turned around to wave goodbye
You were already on your bike and riding with my bike by your side

Who are you? The Black Canoe?
Who are you? The Last Of The Immune?
Who are you?

You rode out of view
As far as I knew it was you
Who broke my heart from the start
Made me work and work so hard
To get where I am
To where I'd let you do it all again

Who are you? Who are you?
What do I do? Without you?

Who are you? The Last Recluse?
Who are you? The Last Of The Immune?
Are you the Last Canoe? The Last Canada Goose?
Who are you? Who are you? Who are you? Who are you?


Next song: Coffee Girl
Previous song: Honey, Please




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Honey, Please - Lyrics

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Last played: 2009/10/24 Houston, TX
Debut: 2009/04/24 Toronto, ON
Notes: Only played on the 2009 'WATS Tour' and less and less as that tour went on...


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 on the other side of this feeling
Honey please

But when I 'look for words'
For more going concerns
For the 'adventure of ideas'
'Adventure never returns' yeah
Whenever I get stuck
Whenever I can't speak
Whenever just because

You do it in your sleep

Honey maybe everything you need
Is on the other side of this feeling
Honey please

When all 'the poetry of the earth'
Might be all there is
It might still have some worth
Yeah but I can't dance to it

Honey everything we need
Is on the other side of this feeling this feeling
Honey right here underneath our feet
Under all the stars of the County
Everything we need
Honey please

Under all the stars of the County with you tonight
Under all the stars of the County with you by my side
Under all the stars of the County shining bright
Under all the stars of the County with you tonight


Next song: The Last Recluse
Previous song: Morning Moon




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Morning Moon - Lyrics

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Last played: 2013/01/20 Kamloops, BC
Debut: 2009/04/24 Toronto, ON
Notes: After featuring prominently on the 2009 'WATS Tour' Morning Moon was dropped from the festival setlists in the following years and was only played 4 times on the 'Now For Plan A Tour'.


The Reactor's down I guess for Labour Day
Today's the first day I ain't seen the great plume of steam
From across the Lake
From across the Lake
Hey that's a morning moon

I'm not making strange You said someone's paying
When something's too cheap somebody's paying something
You said someone's paying something
Under a morning moon

Say those little things that don't make anyone feel better

It didn't take too much to upset her
Nothing that could clear a room

Just say one little thing that could make me feel better
Under this morning moon

The Sun's a light bulb and the Moon is a mirror
There are times when you can see both the bulb and the mirror
See the Bulb in the Mirror
And that's a Morning Moon

Say those little things that don't make anyone feel better

It doesn't take too much to upset her
It was nothing that could clear a room
Just saying one little thing trying to make you feel better
Under this morning moon
Under this morning moon

Trying to make you feel better
Nothing too far from the truth


Next song: Honey, Please




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The Hip Are Coming To Saskatoon, SK On July 6, 2013

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The boys have just announced that they will be returning to Saskatoon, SK on 2013/07/06 for the first time since playing the Prairieland Park Exhibition Grandstand on 2009/08/04.

Here's the details...

The Tragically Hip
Credit Union Centre
Saskatoon, SK
2013/07/06


Pre-Sale: Wed Mar 13 at 10am and ends Thu Mar 14 at 10pm
Password available to registered users of www.thehip.com

On-Sale: Friday, March 15 at 10am

Tickets available at TicketBastard


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World Container (song) - Lyrics

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Last played: 2009/04/29 Kitchener, ON
Debut: 2006/10/17 Toronto, ON
Album: World Container (2006)
Notes: Disclaimer -> It's songs like this that make The Hip so great... to me anyway. This song is a top 5 for me. It's the lyrics... the cadence... it's addictive. It was played extensively on the 'World Container Tour' then once in 2008 and once in 2009 at the very beginning of the 'WATS Tour'.



There's a world container with your name on it
and a billion ways to go berserk
when the country quits on you
it must be dinner
and the Himmler on this one is, there's no dessert
(he's the one who couldn't imagine
all the people living life in peace, yoo hoo oo oo oo)
Good news! You get to vanish
go to Cleveland, be an indie smash
the good news is now you're smaller
the bad news is you can be smaller than that
Go suck some souls, be a reader, get used
laugh at a funeral or two
laugh and laugh til all the chameleons turn black
laugh and laugh til you're told, 'Please don't come back'
then fake incredulous, say, 'I just can't believe!
How'd it get this late so early?'
say, 'Ain't life a grand' and 'I'm in awe of y'all'
then drop into your haunted bunk
go to your touchless times
out where the water's drying
go past the 'No Attractions Past This Point' sign
what you'll find there are all flaws in progress
where all songs are one song and that song is, Don't Forget
yea, all songs are one song and that song is, Don't Forget

Yea, I've faked incredulous, said, 'I just can't believe.
How'd it get this late so early'
said, 'Ain't life a grand' and 'I'm in awe of y'all'
I've dropped into my haunted bunk
been to the touchless times,
out where the water's drying
been past the 'No Attractions Past This Point' sign
what we have here are all flaws in progress
where all songs are one song and that song is, Don't Forget
where all songs are one song and that song is, Don't Forget
where all songs are one song and that song is, Don't Forget


Previous song: Family Band




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Family Band - Lyrics

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Last played: 2013/02/09 Oshawa, ON
Debut: 2006/10/17 Toronto, ON
Album: World Container (2006)
Notes: Family Band was a mainstay in Tragically Hip setlists from its debut in 2006 right up through the 2009 'WATS Tour'. It was dropped from the 'Festival Setlists' of 2011/12 although it's the type of song that fits in well with that ilk. It became somewhat of a rarity on the 'Now For Plan A Tour' which is too bad. It can fill in for any of the heavy-hitters that are continuously overplayed. It can open a set, close a set, appear in the middle to kick-start the show after a slow down or be an encore song. 


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 annihilate a little later
I can't see the entire city
But I'm not a bad exterminator
I'm just a shade shy of true wickedness
I'm a shade shy of truly loving it, yea
There are other things I'd rather be doing
Even nothing
Even nothing
Even nothing with you

One day I'll make some honest rock n roll
Full of handclaps and gang vocals
I'm gonna get all the children involved
We're gonna get lost on all you locals
We'll be a shade shy of true wickedness
We'll be a shade shy of truly loving this, yea
There are other things we'll rather be doing, sure
Even nothing
Even nothing
Even nothing with you

We'll load out through the snow
Through small groups of people smoking
Hey! Get that kick drum loaded!
Into the back seat folded down!
We'll go virtually unnoticed
What's gripping the city ain't hitting the town

We'll be a shade shy of true wickedness
We'll be a shade shy of truly loving it, yea
There are other things that we'll surely miss
We'll load out through the snow
Through small groups of people smoking
Hey! get that kick drum loaded!
Into the back seat folded down!
We'll go perfectly unnoticed
What's gripping the city ain't hitting the town



Next song: World Container
Previous song: The Drop-Off





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The Tragically Hip Playing Calgary, AB on 2013/09/07

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Here's the details....

Calgary, AB
Shaw Millenium Park

Tickets GA - $64.50 + SC & VIP $125 + SC
VIP tickets include priority entry, VIP area with premium bar service and upgraded food options, souvenir laminate and lanyard, and complimentary event poster

Pre-Sale: March 12 @ 10:00AM to March 14 @ 10:00PM MDT

Password: Get password from thehip.com

On-Sale: Friday March 15 @ 10:00 AM MDT

http://www.ticketfly.com/event/233117


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This is a Canadian outdoor festival show -- complete with exclusive VIP section. I've gone on and on about the debacle that these events have become from all perspectives so I won't repeat myself here again.




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Stompin' Tom - A Canadian Musical Legend (RIP)

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Canadian country-folk legend Stompin' Tom Connors, whose toe-tapping musical spirit and fierce patriotism established him as one of Canada's strongest cultural icons, has died. He was 77.

Connors passed away Wednesday from what a spokesman described as "natural causes."

Brian Edwards said the musician, rarely seen without his signature black cowboy hat and stomping cowboy boots, knew his health was declining and had penned a message for his fans a few days before his death.

In the message posted on his website, Connors says Canada kept him "inspired with its beauty, character, and spirit, driving me to keep marching on and devoted to sing about its people and places that make Canada the greatest country in the world."

On Twitter, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said "we have lost a true Canadian original. R.I.P. Stompin' Tom Connors. You played the best game that could be played."

The National Hockey League tweeted "Sad to hear that legendary Canadian Stompin' Tom Connors has passed. His legacy lives on in arenas every time The Hockey Song is played."

Connors is survived by his wife Lena, two sons, two daughters and several grandchildren.

Dubbed Stompin' Tom for his propensity to pound the floor with his left foot during performances, Connors garnered a devoted following through straight-ahead country-folk tunes that drew inspiration from his extensive travels and focused on the everyman.

Although wide commercial appeal escaped Connors for much of his four-decade career, his heritage-soaked songs like Canada Day, Up Canada Way, The Hockey Song, Bud the Spud, and Sudbury Saturday Night, have come to be regarded as veritable national anthems thanks to their unabashed embrace of all things Canadiana.

Still, Connors often complained that not enough songs were being written about his homeland.

"I don't know why I seem to be the only one, or almost the only one, writing about this country," Connors said in a rare one-on-one interview at his home in Halton Hills, Ont., in 2008.

"It just amazes me that I've been going so long I would think that somebody else (would have) picked up the torch a long time ago and started writing tons of songs about this country. This country is the most underwritten country in the world as far as songs are concerned. We starve. The people in this country are starving for songs about their homeland."

Fervent patriot
Connor's fervent patriotism brought controversy when his principles put him at loggerheads with the Canadian music industry.

In 1978, he famously returned a handful of Juno Awards he had amassed in previous years, complaining that some artists were being awarded in categories outside their genre while other winners had conducted most of their work outside of the country. He derided artists that moved to the United States as "border jumpers."

"I feel that the Junos should be for people who are living in Canada, whose main base of business operations is in Canada, who are working toward the recognition of Canadian talent in this country and who are trying to further the export of such talent from this country to the world with a view to proudly showing off what this country can contribute to the world market," he said in a statement at the time.

The declaration marked the beginning of a 10-year self-imposed exile from the spotlight.

From Connors' earliest days, life was a battle.

He was born in Saint John, N.B., on Feb. 9, 1936 to an unwed teenage mother. According to his autobiography, Before the Fame, he often lived hand-to-mouth as a youngster, hitch-hiking with his mother from the age of three, begging on the street by the age of four. At age eight, he was placed in the care of Children's Aid and adopted a year later by a family in Skinner's Pond, P.E.I. He ran away four years later to hitch-hike across the country.

Connors bought his first guitar at age 14 and picked up odd jobs as he wandered from town to town, at times working on fishing boats, as a grave digger, tobacco picker and fry cook.

Humble beginnings
Legend has it that Connors began his musical career when he found himself a nickel short of a beer at the Maple Leaf Hotel in Timmins, Ont., in 1964 at age 28.

The bartender agreed to give him a drink if he would play a few songs but that turned into a 14-month contract to play at the hotel. Three years later, Connors made his first album and garnered his first hit in 1970 with Bud The Spud.

Hundreds more songs followed, many based on actual events, people, and towns he had visited.

"I'm a man of the land, I go out into the country and I talk to people and I know the jobs they do and how they feel about their jobs," Connors has said.

"And I've been doing that all my life so I know Canada like the palm of my hand. I don't need a map to go anywhere in Canada, I know it all."

In 1988, Connors emerged from his decade-long protest with the album Fiddle and Song, featuring a new fiddle style and the songs Canada Day, Up Canada Way, Lady kd lang, and I Am the Wind. It was followed in 1990 by a 70-city Canadian tour that established him as one of the country's best loved troubadours.

But his strong convictions about the music industry remained. Connors declined induction into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 1993.

Accolades he did embrace included an appointment to the Order of Canada in 1996, and his own postage stamp.

"Whatever I do, in my writing, I do it for others," Connors said in the 2008 interview. "I do it for my country and I do it for my countrymen and that's the only value that I really have. If there was no money in this, I'd be doing it anyway. I've always been that way. Because it's what I am."







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The Drop-Off - Lyrics

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Last played: 2009/12/03 Glasgow, Scotland
Debut: 2006/05/26 Vancouver, BC
Album: World Container (2006)
Notes: Hung around in the setlists throughout the 2009 'WATS Tour' but hasn't been played since.


When the summer is young
and nobody has their prices
No one is no one
and nobody in a crisis
There's no swimming past the drop-off
or feeling sorry for yourself
Ya don't go swimming past the drop-off
or else

Yer a pistol, yer a gun
and suddenly I have no prices
I'm like a friend of Dylan's
our shovels meeting in some crisis
But there's no swimming past the drop-off
Yea we don't replace ourselves
Ya don't go swimming past the drop-off
or else

The fates are amok and spun, measured and cut and the past is meant to please us
Yer a comet from earth in a Kiss Alive shirt saying, 'holy fuck, it's Jesus!?'
The surface is green and the dark interweaves in a lonely iridescence
It's terribly deep and the cold is complete and it only lacks a presence
and nothing else.

When the summer is done
and nobody sympathizes
Yer no friend of Dylan's
Yea, you won't see another crisis
There's no swimming past the drop-off
or feeling sorry for ourselves
Ya don't go swimming past the drop-off
or else

Personal stakes will get raised and get raised til your story gets compelling
If you lacked the sense or were willfully dense is forever in the telling
The surface is green and the dark interweaves in a lonely iridescence
It's terribly deep and the cold is complete and it only lacks your presence
and nothing else
nothing else
nothing else
and no one else


Next song: Family Band
Previous song: Last Night I Dreamed You Didn't Love Me





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Last Night I Dreamed You Didn't Love Me - Lyrics

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Last played: 2007/05/19 Towson, MD
Debut: 2006/10/17 Toronto, ON
Album: World Container (2006)
Notes: Only played 12 times live.


You kissed my fingers and made me love you

Last night when we went to hell
When the blood-starred curtain fell
Men were turning on their machines, making everything mean
Fires burned, cold values clashed
Good and evil were all dry grass
No child-ghost, no singing bird, no last laugh, no last word
oh
Last night I dreamed, last night I dreamed darkly nurtured dreams
None of them were quite as frightening
oh
Canada emptied, there was me, featureless and freezing
Last night I dreamed you didn't love me

you kissed my fingers and made me love you

Last night you left me derelict
and disappeared for ages
You just said 'honey save those tears of yours for the show,
oh
Last night I dreamed, last night I dreamed darkly nurtured dreams
none of them were half as frightening
oh
Canada emptied there was me, beside you, featureless and freezing
Last night I dreamed you didn't love me.
You didn't love me.
What's happening to you?
Why don't you love me like you used to?
When you kissed my fingers and you made me love you
When you kissed my fingers and you made me love you

Last night I dreamed, last night I dreamed darkly nurtured dreams
None of them, none as frightening,
oh
Awake empty and out of sleep, you were beside me gently breathing
Last night I dreamed you didn't love me
You didn't love me
You didn't love me
Why don't you love me like you used to?
When you kissed my fingers and you made me love you

When you kissed my fingers and you made me love you


Next song: The Drop-Off
Previous song: Pretend




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Pretend - Lyrics

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Last played: 2007/10/27 Boston, MA
Debut: 2005/07/16 Grand Falls, NL
Album: World Container (2006)
Notes: Sad song, but here's something that makes me smile... My wife is from California and needless to say she hadn't heard of The Hip before we met. Now that she has, not really a fan. Anyway, she goes back to Cali for a family visit and learns how to play this song by ear on the piano after I snuck it on to her ipod... Always makes me smile that does. Two other songs along with Pretend share a variation of the lyric "Gripping the city, hitting the town"... The Kids Don't Get It & Family Band...


If I ask you a question
are you going to lie to me?
Is that your question?
Because that one is easy

It's gripping the city
and hitting the town
and no one on earth is
doing this now

If you can pretend
and I can pretend
pretending won't end
and then and well then...

If you take the chances
I'll take the bows
saying ‘no one on earth is
doing this now'

But if I ask you a question
are you gonna lie to me?
Is that your question?
Because that one is easy

If you don't pretend
and I don't pretend
pretending might end
but pretend can pretend to end

You can't pretend
Yes I can. Yes I can. Yes I can.
You can't pretend
Yes I can. Yes I can. Yes I can.

You can't pretend
Yes I can. Yes I can. Yes I can.

You can't pretend
Yes I can. Yes I can. Yes I can.


Next song: Last Night I Dreamed You Didn't Love Me
Previous song: The Kids Don't Get It




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The Kids Don't Get It - Lyrics

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Last played: 2013/02/12 Sault Ste. Marie, ON
Debut: 2006/10/17 Toronto, ON
Album: World Container (2006)
Notes: TKDGI made its debut like many of the 'World Container' songs at the Horseshoe Tavern on Queen St. West in Toronto right before the big 2007 'World Container Tour' where it received extensive play. It only made 2 appearances between then and 2011. Once in 2008 and it was a 'one-timer' on the 2009 'WATS Tour'. Kids came back in a big way on the festival circuit in the summer of 2011 and was featured steadily throughout the 'Now For Plan A Tour'. If you fall into the category of one who gets a little bothered by ' Screaming Gord' , this one is not for you....


You said, ‘If I ask you a question,
are you gonna lie to me?’
I said, ‘honey, is that your question?
cuz honey, that one’s easy’
cuz half the truth is, just how much there is
The kids don’t get it
No. The kids don’t get it

I’m gonna be an expert stranger,
better than the giant squid
I’m gonna leave the stranger experts
scratching their heads, saying, ‘how’d he do it?!’
When half the truth is, just how hard it is
But the kids don’t get it
No. The kids won’t get it

I’ll be the antlers and I’ll be the elk
I’ll be the right whale and I’ll be parallel
The kids don’t get it
That’s right, kids don’t get it

I’ll feel more than human when the work’s hitting home
I’ll be aped by my ancestors. I’ll state the plan as my own
I’ll be gripping the city, I’ll be hitting the town
You’ll say. ‘I’d be hurt if you didn’t, when I come around’
That’s right, kids don’t get it

I’ll be as careless as you are certain.
I’ll get outta my own way
I’ll stop to cry into the curtains
and like the greats, before me, go on stage
And if half-true its, good enough for this
cuz the kids don’t get it
No. The kids don’t get it
If I ask you a question,
ya gonna lie to me?
Ah honey is that your question?
cuz that one’s easy

Kids don’t get it
Just how hard it is
Kids don’t get it
Just how much there is


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