Fully Completely Liner Notes

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© The Tragically Hip

October 92

Dear You;

I know I'm not much at keeping in touch.  That's me in the Everglades, that's a picture of me in the Everglades.  Standing beside me, that's my sister.  I've heard that thanking someone can be spiritual, but I become so quietly eloquent that I can hardly believe it's me.  It's the obscene silence of a broke-down system.  Maybe if I was a barracuda, ya know - a compulsive killer that destroys more than I eat?

I know making love's not priority one in the future-for-you-is-now-or-else-you're-history business.  I understand that there's no sense in searching for perfection when you're making successful mistakes and I know that a slave is not a slave if he's simply satisfied with less.  Ah, but, to know the routine is to know the man, & I'm not much at keeping in touch.  You know, guidance, patience, nutrition, inspiration, employment, instruments, air play, production, hospitality, company, conversation, representation, friendship and the routine.  You even know who you are.  Thank you.  Talk later.

Love,

The T. Hip

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Eldorado - Lyrics

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Last played: 2013/02/08 Guelph, ON
Debut: 1992/04/18 Toronto, ON
Album: Fully Completely (1992)

Notes: Doesn't show up a lot with only 59 live appearances all-time, however, Eldorado seems to make at least 1 setlist per tour. If you're chasing this one it is possible and the 'Now For Plan A Tour' was proof of that when it was played 11 times.

He's a man-sized Eldorado, Hooved a doo
and who could blame him. Where we going?
What's the ticket? Just the mention of Berlin makes me sexy
and tired of thinking about drinking
for thinking of drinking while thinking
about drinking and thinking about drinking
It's a man-sized inside

Look in here it's all hardwood.
What's that smell? Smells like coffee
If you regret it please say something,
I've got no genius for evil that makes me common
and tired of loving, recovering, loving, recoveringlovingrecovering
lovingrecovering. It's a man-sized inside.

He's a man sized - Eldorado, whoopty-do
if you can't take it. Where he's going?
What's that ticking?
Just the mention of Berlin makes me sexy
and tired of thinkingaboutdrinkingforthinking
ofdrinkingwhilethinkingaboutdrinkingandthinkingaboutdrinking.
Tired of lovingrecoveringlovingrecoveringlovingrecoveringloving
recovering. It's a man-sized inside. It's a man-sized inside.


Previous song: The Wherewithal




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The Wherewithal - Lyrics

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Last played: 2006/10/17 Toronto, ON
Debut: 1992/04/18 Toronto, ON
Album: Fully Completely (1992)

Notes: An underused rager. 1995/96 were its most prolific years as far as setlist appearances. It's shelving now sits at 5yrs+. At it stands, The Wherewithal's first and last appearances are both from the same venue, Toronto's famed Horseshoe Tavern which is pretty unique considering the time span between the two. I hope I get to erase this little tidbit someday.

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 out before he had
the wherewithal to get out before
He had the wherewithal

You've got to coax him slow,
that's the only way that he'll confess.
Tell him that the truth will
help him live with less.
To get out before he had the wherewithal
to get out before he had the wherewithal.
That's a breathy body of work
set your sights inward for a leaner look.

Richard died real slow,
He won't get interrupted anymore.
I always loved that guy
and he's not on T.V. anymore.
To get out before he had the
wherewithal to get out before
he had the wherewithal


Next song: Eldorado
Previous song: Wheat Kings




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Wheat Kings - Lyrics

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Last played: 2013/02/12 Sault Ste. Marie, ON
Debut: 1991/07/27 Saskatoon, SK
Album: Fully Completely (1992)
Notes: Classic Hip. The ladies melt for this one. Nuff said. Hard to believe this song is over 20 years old.


Sundown in the Paris of the prairies
Wheat kings have all their treasures buried
And all you hear are the rusty breezes
Pushing around the weather vane Jesus

In his Zippo lighter, he sees the killer's face
Maybe it's someone standing in a killer's place
Twenty years for nothing, well that's nothing new,
besides, No one's interested in something you didn't do
Wheat kings and pretty things,
let's just see what the morning brings.

There's a dream he dreams where the high school is dead and stark
It's a museum and we're all locked up in it after dark
Where the walls are lined all yellow, grey and sinister
Hung with pictures of our parents' prime ministers
Wheat Kings and pretty things,
wait and see what tomorrow brings.

Late-breaking story on the CBC,
A nation whispers, "we always knew that he'd go free""
They add, "you can't be fond of living in the past,
cause if you are then there's no way that you're gonna last".
Wheat Kings and pretty things
let's just see what tomorrow brings
Wheat kings and pretty things,
that's what tomorrow brings.


Next song: The Wherewithal
Previous song: Fifty-Mission Cap

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Fifty Mission Cap - Lyrics

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Last played: 2013/02/14 Toronto, ON
Debut: 1992/04/18 Toronto, ON
Album: Fully Completely (1992)

Notes: For one of The Hip's big songs, 50MC hasn't been overplayed at all. That's why it's always a treat to hear it even if like me, you're not a Leaf's fan. Of course if you are a Leaf's fan, at least you have a cool song about your team, right? From 2002/10/16 - 2009/04/28 it was played just 11 times. A recent surge saw it played at 13 out of 39 shows on the 'Now For Plan A Tour'.

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 win another until 1962,
the year he was discovered.
I stole this from a hockey card,
I keeped tucked up under
my fifty mission cap, I worked it in
to look like that


Next song: Wheat Kings
Previous song: Fully Completely




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Fully Completely (Song) - Lyrics

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Last played: 2013/02/14 Toronto, ON
Debut: 1991/12/31 Ottawa, ON
Album: Fully Completely (1992)
Notes: They always play this. A top 5 live song in my book.


Bring me back in shackles,
hang me long out in the sun,
exonerate me, forget about me
I recommend measures for ending it.
Lover, she simply slammed the door.
She said, "you're gonna miss me."
Wait and you'll see," fully, completely
I ponder the endlessness of the stars,
ignoring said same of my father.
Either it'll move me
or it'll move right through me;
fully, completely


Next song: Fifty-Mission Cap
Previous song: We'll Go Too




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We'll Go Too - Lyrics

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Last played: 2006/10/28 Calgary, AB
Debut: 1992/04/18 Toronto, ON
Album: Fully Completely (1992)

Notes: Played just 7 time in the new millennium. What can you do?

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, you cannot not know
what you're knowing
what can you do, they're all gone
and we'll go too.

The curtain climbs over me every morning.
I don't know why I'm so immunized
against reforming.
To coldly slap at a face full of nothing,
you never know it could've been one of those
looks of long.
What can you do, they're all gone
And we'll go too.


Next song: Fully Completely
Previous song: Locked In The Trunk Of A Car




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Locked in the Trunk of a Car - Lyrics

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Last played: 2013/02/04 Kingston, ON
Debut: 1991/12/31 Ottawa, ON
Album: Fully Completely (1992)
Notes: No live gaps. A favourite of both the band and the fans. Became a bit of a rarity on the 'Now For Plan A Tour'.


They don't know how old I am,
they found armour in my belly
From the 16th century, conquistador, I think.
They don't know how old I am,
they found armour in my belly.
Passion out of machine-revving tension, lashing
out at machine-revving tension, brushing by the
machine-revving tension.

Morning broke out the backside of a truck-stop
The end of a line a real, rainbow-likening, luck stop
Where you could say I became chronologically 'fucked up'**
Put ten bucks in just to get the tank topped off.
Then, I found a place it's dark and it's rotted.
It's a cool, sweet kinda-place
where the copters won't spot it
and I destroyed the map, I even thought I forgot it,
however, every-day I'm dumping the body.
It'd be better for us if you don't understand.
It'd be better for me if you don't understand

**Liner notes say, "sick and ashamed and happy"






Next song: We'll Go Too
Previous song: Lionized




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Lionized - Lyrics

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Last played: 2012/12/15 Las Vegas, NV
Debut: 1992/04/18 Toronto, ON
Album: Fully Completely (1992)

Notes: Almost half of its live appearances (35/73) came during 1998 & 1999 which is interesting since these years were neither part of the Fully Completely tour nor were they 2-set tours with room for extra filler songs. Lionized also showed up in just about 25% of the band's shows in 2006. Played twice on the 39 show 'Now For Plan A Tour'.

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 girl could ever trace. Lionized,
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.
Lionized, lionize

I can't draw, but I can trace
I know a lack I've got,
an abundance of extra space
Cold wind blowing over your private parts
I know a lack you've got is to make a
strong case for art. Lionized, lionize


Next song: Locked In The Trunk Of A Car
Previous song: Pigeon Camera




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Pigeon Camera - Lyrics

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Last played: 2009/11/26 Utrecht,NED
Debut: 1992/12/09 Hamburg, GER
Album: Fully Completely (1992)

Notes: The busiest concert years for this popular and underplayed song were 2000 (15) and 2009 (12). In between those two aforementioned years Pigeon Camera was played just 10 times.

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 anywhere
and after all that training.
And after all that training,
something we could no longer contain.
It's boring, I'm embarrassed,
I don't endorse that, I didn't want this

This house it has it politics;
over there that's my room
and that's my sister's.
And that's my sister,
something we could no longer contain
We could no longer contain
It's boring, I'm embarrassed,
I don't endorse that; I didn't want this,
it's horrific, I'm embarrassed
I didn't want that, I didn't want this
It's like we burned our boots with no
contingency plan

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Next song: Lionized
Previous song: At The Hundredth Meridian




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At the Hundredth Meridian - Lyrics

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Last played: 2013/02/14 Toronto, ON
Debut: 1991/11/15 Amsterdam, NED
Album: Fully Completely (1992)
Notes: See Courage.

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.

Driving down a corduroy road,
weeds standing shoulder high.
Ferris wheel is rusting off in the distance.
At the hundredth meridian where the great plains begin.

Left alone to get gigantic;
hard, huge and haunted
A generation so much dumber than it's parents came
crashing through the window.
A raven strains along the line of the road,
carrying muddy old skull.
The wires whistle their approval,
off down the distance.

At the hundredth meridian
At the hundredth meridian
At the hundredth meridian
Where the great plains begin
At the hundredth meridian
At the hundredth meridian
At the hundredth meridian
Where the great plains begin

I remember, I remember Buffalo and I remember Hengelo
It would seem to me I remember every
single fuckin' thing I know

If I die of vanity, promise me, promise me,
they bury me someplace I don't want to be,
you'll dig me up and transport me, unceremoniously,
away from the swollen city-breeze, garbage-bag trees,
whispers of disease and the acts of enormity
and lower me slowly, sadly and properly
Get Ry Cooder to sing my eulogy,

At the hundredth meridian
At the hundredth meridian
At the hundredth meridian
Where the great plains begin
At the hundredth meridian
At the hundredth meridian
At the hundredth meridian
Where the great plains begin


Next song: Pigeon Camera
Previous song: Looking For A Place To Happen




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Looking for a Place to Happen - Lyrics

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Last played: 2009/11/25 Groningen, NED
Debut: 1991/05/24 Hengelo, NED
Album: Fully Completely (1992)

Notes: Only played live 25 times. What? Yep. And 7 of those were on the 2009 WATS tour. Hard to believe a song that made Yer Favourites and is this old appeared only 18 times from 1991/05/24 > 2009/09/16. I think there's probably some database inconsistencies at thehip.com.

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
Where they'd stamp on burning bags of shit.
Looking for a place to happen
making stops along the way

Wayward ho! Away we go,
It's a shame to leave this masterpiece
With its' gallery gods and its' 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
Looking for a place to happen
making stops along the way

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
And come on in, sit right down,
no you're not the first to show
We've all been here since, God, who knows?
Looking for a place to happen
making stops along the way.


Next song: At The Hundredth Meridian
Previous song: Courage




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Courage - Lyrics

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Last played: 2013/02/14 Toronto, ON
Debut: 1992/04/18 Toronto, ON
Album: Fully Completely (1992)
Notes: This song is rare... Rarely not played.


Watch the band through a bunch of dancers
Quickly, follow the unknown with something more familiar.
Quickly something familiar
Courage, my word it didn't come it doesn't matter

Sleepwalk, so fast asleep in a motel
that has the lay of home and piss on all of your
background and piss on all your surroundings
Courage, my word, it didn't come, it doesn't matter
Courage, it couldn't come at a worse time

So there's no simple explanation
for anything important any of us do
and yea the human tragedy
consists in the necessity
of living with the consequences
under pressure, under pressure.
Courage, my word, it didn't come, it doesn't matter,
Courage, it couldn't come at a worse time.


Next song: Looking For A Place To Happen




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Fully Completely (Album) - Lyrics

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Welcome to to lyrics post page for The Tragically Hip's Fully Completely album.  Click on a song title below for the lyrics and Digital Lyric Art.

Released: Feb 6, 1992
Recorded: Battery Studios London
Length: 46:45
Label: MCA
Producer: Chris Tsangarides
Certification: Diamond (Canada - 1,000,000+)

Track listing:
Courage (for Hugh MacLennan)
Looking For A Place To Happen
At The Hundredth Meridian
Pigeon Camera
Lionized
Locked In The Trunk Of A Car
We'll Go Too
Fully Completely
Fifty Mission Cap
Wheat Kings
The Wherewithal
Eldorado

Liner Notes

© The Tragically Hip

Next album: Day For Night
Previous album: Road Apples




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