Day For Night Lyric Art

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Hey All,

Just an FYI that I have posted some Digital Lyric Art for the Day For Night album.  All images can be enlarged by clicking on them.  So far I've completed Up to Here, Road Apples, Fully Completely and now Day for Night.

Day For Night

Links to the individual Day for Night songs can be found on the Day for Night Lyrics Page.

Stay tuned for Trouble at the Henhouse next!

-- mrjackstraw


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Impossibilium - Lyrics

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Last played: 1995/04/29 Buffalo, NY
Debut: 1994/08/08 Harrisburg, PA
Album: Day For Night (1994)

Notes: Of the dozen times this song has been let loose live only 2 were in Canada. Once at Maple Leaf Gardens and once at The Forum in Montreal. Hallowed ground to say the least.

I love you even when I don't even know I'm doing it
and dismiss it out of hand cause I don't even know I'm doing it
but your finger starts to wiggle and landscapes emerge
Can you spare some change dear, we've only got three hundred feet to go

Roses are worth more dried than alive
such a you thing to say
O how I adore you
when you reinvent a rose cliche
Can you spare some change dear
we've only got three hundred feet to go
and with impossibilium for a payload
we lift the rocket
out of the pocket
nothing can stop it

Roses are difficult everywhere
you must promise me you'll stay
these longstems are freakish if anything
but we can cut em down for the vase
Can you spare some change dear
we've only got three hundred feet to go
and with impossibilium for a payload
we lift the rocket out of the pocket
nothing can stop it
we can only watch it






Previous song: Titanic Terrarium




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TITANIC Terrarium - Lyrics

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Last played: 2013/02/02 Halifax, NS
Debut: 1994/10/07 Portland, OR
Album: Day For Night (1994)
Notes: Just 6 appearances since 12/21/2000, but it's not sunk yet.


Growing up in a biosphere
with no respect for bad weather
there's still roaches and ants in here
so resourceful and clever.
Her greatgrandfather saw the future
didn't know nothing bout panic,
he certainly probably thought
that it was unthinkable.
There's a trace o mint
wafting in from the north
so we don't fuck with the 401
it's bigger than us or
larger than we bargained
I guess it's just not done.
His greatgrandfather worked for Goodyear
he'd see the blimp on Sundays
wonder what the driver knew
about making rubber tires.
Terrarium, O Terrarium

There's submarines out there under the ice
avoiding and courting collision
an accident's sometimes the only way
to worm our way back to bad decisions,
My greatgrandfather was a welder
he helped to build the Titanic
he didn't certainly think
that is was unsinkable.
Building up to the larger point
with an arrogance not rare or pretty
we don't declare the war on idleness
when outside it's cold and shitty.
We stay inside and try to conjure the fathers of
the injured and faking
if there's glory in miracles
it's that they're reversible
Terrarium,
O Terrarium


Next song: Impossibilium
Previous song: Emergency




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Emergency - Lyrics

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Last played: N/A
Debut: Any day now...
Album: Day For Night (1994)
Notes: What can I say? Nothing. That's what.


I've often dreamt of a conversation
that just keeps on coming up again and again.
We're sitting in the Baby Bar bereft
at a shadowy table, out past the sentences end
From until it's no longer fun
to that's no longer relevant.
From until we're no longer one
to the bona-fide embodiment of an endless
emergency without end.

We often stop in these conversations,
things we say here stay here forever amen.
When everything seems either funny or lousy,
funny or lousy, that's where it usually ends.

From until it's no longer fun
to that's no longer relevant.
From until we're no longer one
to that's no longer permanent.
From the last survivors of those terms
to the bona-fide embodiment
of an endless emergency
without end.
We're an endless emergency
without end.

but
your finger starts to wiggle
and
landscapes emerge


Next song: Titanic Terrarium
Previous song: An Inch An Hour




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An Inch An Hour - Lyrics

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Last played: 2013/01/20 Kamloops, BC
Debut: 1994/07/01 Barrie, ON
Album: Day For Night (1994)
Notes: Just 10 live appearances since 12/16/2000 St. John's, NL. It actually surged on the recent 'Now For Plan A Tour' and was played 6 times.


I want a book that'll make me drunk
full of freaks and disenfranchised punks.
No amount of hate no load of junk
no bag or words no costume trunk
could make me feel the same way
an inch an hour two feet a day
to move through night
in this most fashionable way.

There's this fuckin band you gotta see
they used to scare the living shit outta me.
No frothing dog no cool insanity
no "rock n' roll" no christianity
makes me feel the same way
an inch an hour two feet a day
to move through night
with very little else to say
but i'm helpless less with the people
than the space.

No struggletown no bemused trudeau
no solitary walks through vacant lots
in moonglow

Tonight the winter may have missed its mark
you can see your breath in Springside Park
coffee-coloured ice and peeling birch bark the
sound of rushing water in the dark
makes me feel the same way
an inch an hour two feet a day
to move through life
with very little else to say
but i'm helpless more with the people
than the space
I mean I'm helpless less with the people
than the space

You see, I don't know Neil
I don't know Neil


Next song: Emergency
Previous song: Scared




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Scared - Lyrics

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Last played: 2013/02/09 Oshawa, ON
Debut: 1994/07/24 Glastonbury, ENG
Album: Day For Night (1994)

Notes: A consistent part of The Hip's live repertoire since its debut. And for good reason. It has slowed down as of late and is now probably considered a bit of a rarity. It was played only 6 times during the 39 show 'Now For Plan A Tour'.

I could make you scared
if you want me to
I'm not prepared, but if I have to
He said, I can make you scared,
it's kinda what I do
If you're prepared,
here's what I propose to do
You're in Russia
and more than a million works of art
are whisked out to the woods
So when the Nazis
find the whole place dark
They'd think god's
left the museum for good

I make you scared, if that's what I do
If you're prepared, if I have to
If I make you scared and you pay me to
If that's the deal
now here's what I can do for you

Now there's a focus group
that can prove
this is all nothing
but cold calculation

Tests have shown
that suspicious or hostile
Their lives need not be shortened
truth be told
they can live a long, long while
Tickled to death by their importance

If you make me scared,
if that's what you do
If I'm unclear can I get out of this thing
with me and you
If you feel scared, a bit confused,
I gotta say
this sounds a little beyond
anything I'm used to

Now there's a precious few
that can prove that at the root
This is all nothing but a cold calculation

Clearly entranced,
you're leaning back now
Defanged destroyer limps into the bay
Down at the beach
it's attracting quite a crowd
As kids wade through blood
out to it to play

OK you made me scared,
you did what you set out to do
I'm not prepared, you really had me
going there for a minute or two
He said, you made me scared too,
I wasn't sure I was getting through
I gotta go, it's been a pleasure
doing business with you.


Next song: An Inch An Hour
Previous song: Inevitability Of Death




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Inevitability Of Death - Lyrics

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Last played: 2009/09/11 Winnipeg, MB
Debut: 1994/07/01 Barrie, ON
Album: Day For Night (1994)

Notes: Seems to show up every tour although the number of times it appears in setlists continues to decline. It's good on the album, but it's great live.

Puffy lips glistening skin
And everything comes rushing in
We don't go to hell
memories of us do

I get a sense of connectedness
Exclusive tight but nothing dangerous
We don't go to hell memories of us do
And if you go to hell
I'll still remember you

But I thought you beat the death of
inevitability
to death just a little bit
I though you beat the inevitability
of death
to death just a little bit

Terry's gift is forever green
It got me up and back on the scene
We don't go to hell
just our memories do

Fantastic gap common space
Open concept in your smiling face
We don't go to hell memories of us do

And if you go to hell I'll still remember you


Next song: Scared
Previous song: Thugs




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