Heaven Is A Better Place Today - Lyrics

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for Dan Snyder

Last played: 2006/11/03 Vancouver, BC
Debut: 2004/06/23 Calgary, AB
Notes: After receiving massive play on the 2004'In Between Evolution Tour', Heaven Is A Better Place Today promptly became a rarity. It has only been played 8 times since. It was written as a memorial for Dan Snyder, a hockey player who was killed in a car crash caused by driver Dan Heatley while they were with the NHL's Atlanta Thrashers. Snyder played his unior hockey with the OHL's Owen Sound Attack.


Here's a glue guy performance god
a makeshift shrine newly lain sod
hardly even trying gives the nod
I sure hope I'm not the type to dwell
hope I'm a fast healer fast as hell
heaven is a better place today because of this
but the world is just not the same
if and when we get into the endzone
act like you've been there a thousand times before
don't blame don't say people lose people all the time anymore.

A toonie to the busker and a husky 'keep it comin' under my breath
but then said, 'though, if you wouldn't mind,
less crying and more trying more trying and less crying'
I'm not the type to dwell
I'm a fast healer fast as hell
heaven is a better place today because of this
but the world is just not the same
oh if and - if and when we get into the endzone
act like you've been there a thousand times before
don't blame don't say people lose people all the time anymore.

If and when we get into that endzone
act like you've been there a thousand times before
don't change but don't say people lose people all the time anymore.

It's just not the same because of this
It's not the same


Next song: Summer's Killing Us



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Lullaby Renditions of The Tragically Hip

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When do you know you've made it? When you get a star on the boulevard? When they name a street after you? Nope. It's when your songs get turned into children's lullabies.

Phantom Power or Rockabye Baby?

I first heard of these guys when I was browsing Amazon one day to find a Grateful Dead album that was not yet in my collection. It's kind of surprising that they chose to do The Hip. It's also pretty cool. There are numerous other bands available including The Beatles, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Aerosmith, Tool, & coldplay to name but a few.

Here's the track listing:

1. Ahead By A Century
2. Courage
3. New Orleans Is Sinking
4. At the Hundredth Meridian
5. Fifty Mission Cap
6. Bobcaygeon
7. Little Bones
8. Poets
9. Nautical Disaster
10. Blow At High Dough
11. Wheat Kings
12. Grace, Too

Kinda looks like every setlist from this summer, eh?  Ha ha! JK, JK.

So, can kids have fun listening to The Hip? You tell me...






Rockabye Baby: Lullaby Renditions of The Tragically Hip
@ Amazon.com


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Hip Tour Hockey Challenge

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Yo!


I've created a Tragically Hip themed fantasy hockey group over at ESPN.com. It's a salary cap type of thing, so no draft or anything. The season is broken down into 2 halves and I will have a prize for the winner of each. And maybe an overall prize too... This is totally Free for everyone. The password to join the group is FullyCompletely

THIS IS THE LINK

Cheers,

mrjackstraw




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The Hip: Fiddler's Green Video

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I couldn't resist.

September 17....

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A Hip Ode to the Jets...

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This is a letter published published in the Winnipeg Free Press on September 7th, 2011. I have to throw my Full Support behind the writer, Derek Walsh. Nickelback is a phenomenon I cannot comprehend (sorry if you are a fan) and any reputable Rock & Roll band, Canadian or not, should NEVER worry more about their Hair than the Music.

Here we go...

I have to agree with Rob Williams and Bartley Kives. Do not bring Nickelcrap for the Jets opener. However, a lot of people don't get Arcade Fire. Sad but true. I say bring on the quintessential Canadian rock band, the Tragically Hip, and I will explain why using Hip songs in quotations.

True North Sports and Entertainment had the "courage" to "fight" over the last 15 years to bring back our Jets. When they left, thousands of Manitobans felt "so hard done by." All along "the 100th meridian," from the city of "wheat kings" to "Thompson Girl," there was a feeling that the Jets were "locked in the trunk of a car" and being driven to Phoenix and were left sitting at "the lonely end of the rink."

It's been "a long time running" but 15 years later a team in Atlanta was "looking for a place to happen," and turns out it was "a beautiful thing."

Winnipeg was "on the verge" and, finally, when Mark Chipman made the announcement the Jets were coming home, there were "butts wigglin' " at Portage and Main.

The Jets are back with a new logo featuring a "silver jet" that will be sure to leave "vapour trails" across the Winnipeg skyline. "Are you ready" for the "fireworks"?

DEREK Walsh
Marquette

Logo - Winnipeg Jets

As an aside I just want to mention that I like this logo. I know it hasn't received glowing reviews all around but it could have been much, much worse. I especially like the "True North" compass point that they stuck in there and the two-tone red and silver will definitely give me some more options the next time The Hip play Winnipeg and I make Setlist Art... Unless I use the Blue Bombers colours....

If you have any of your own song title poems or what have you like the one above feel free to send them in to me and I'll publish them as long as they don't suck too bad ;)


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Bobby Baker - Hip to the Groove

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No goat, eh??

At some point I'll start rolling out some more lyric art. In the meantime I'm busy this month over at Phish Tour developing Setlist Art day-to-day with their 2nd leg of the summer tour. They'll be packing it in for the remainder of the year after their 3 night Labor Day run in Denver, CO so I'll be able to put that one to bed for a while. I'm also getting ready to work on a big project that will hopefully get the Las Vegas site kick started a little better. It involves me criss-crossing the city on bicycle to see what I find. This will end up including much more non-strip stuff than the regular tourist shit and should help me get to know this place even more. Here's some links if you care to follow along with any of these endeavors:

Phish Tour :: Setlist Art
The Vegas Outsider

Each has their own Twitter & Facebook pages so you can follow along that way as well.

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07/31/2011 - Osheaga Festival, Montreal, QC

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The Tragically Hip
Osheaga Festival
Montreal, QC
07/31/2011

Non-Headlining Slot...

07/31/2011 Montreal, QC

Setlist:
Grace, Too
Blow at High Dough
In View
Ahead By A Century
Poets
At the Hundredth Meridian
Drip Drip Drip
Courage
Bobcaygeon
NOIS > Nautical > NOIS
Little Bones

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