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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Get the 'Coffee Girl' Tee

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

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

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

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

We Are The Same - Lyrics

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WATS

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

Released: April 7, 2009
Recorded: The Bathouse Recording Studio
Length: 57:21
Label: Universal Music Canada
Producer: Bob Rock
Certification: Platinum in Canada

Track Listing:
Morning Moon
Honey, Please
The Last Recluse
Coffee Girl
Now The Struggle Has A Name
The Depression Suite
The Exact Feeling
Queen Of The Furrows
Speed River
Frozen In My Tracks
Love Is A First
Country Day

Bonus tracks:
Hush
Skeleton Park

Next album: Now For Plan A
Previous album: World Container

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Frozen In My Tracks - Lyrics

Speed River - Lyrics

Queen Of The Furrows - Lyrics

The Exact Feeling - Lyrics

The Depression Suite - Lyrics

Now The Struggle Has A Name - Lyrics

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