The Tragically Hip
The Tragically Hip's infectious songs, catchy melodies, inspired lyrics, an… Read Full Bio ↴The Tragically Hip's infectious songs, catchy melodies, inspired lyrics, and solid musicianship have secured their place as the kings of rock in Canada. Formed in the early '80s in Kingston, Ontario, they are a five-piece group of friends: Gordon Downie (primary lyricist and lead vocalist (February 6, 1963-October 17,2017), Paul Langlois and Rob Baker (guitars), Gord Sinclair (bass) and Johnny Fay (drums). For thirty years, The Tragically Hip has been at the heart of the Canadian music scene and has been recognized for its Canadian storytelling and references, and for evoking a strong emotional connection between their music and their fans that remains unrivaled throughout the country. The Hip has achieved the enviable status of a band that enjoys both mass popularity with over 8 million albums sold worldwide, as well as peer recognition through eleven (11) Juno Awards from more than a dozen recordings.

The group met while in high school at Kingston Collegiate Vocational Institute (KCVI) and all attended Queen's University in Kingston. They started as a cover band playing Rolling Stones and Doors covers, and were first represented by a local Kingston agent named Bernie Dobson.

They were first signed in 1987 after Bruce Dickinson, the then VP of A&R at MCA Records saw them perform live at the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto, Ontario. Later that year they released their debut EP The Tragically Hip, though they were largely unrecognized until 1989's Up To Here. Up To Here established them as one of the best and most influential bands in Canada. In 1992, they created the Another Roadside Attraction festival, which tours Canada to promote smaller, unknown emerging bands.

The band is immensely popular in Canada. Although they have never achieved great success in the United States, they have never specifically sought it and have enjoyed their warm Canadian reception. When touring in Canada they typically play to sold-out arenas; when touring in the United States they play smaller venues and clubs. Performances abroad are usually attended by Canadian expatriates. In Europe, The Hip perhaps have their greatest following in the Netherlands.

The band permits recordings of their performances, so an active trading community thrives. The tone and content of much of their music is a paean to the Canadian experience and touches on such themes as small-town life, geography, and hockey.

The Tragically Hip received a star on the Canadian Walk of Fame in 2002, and they were inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame at the 2005 Juno Awards. They have performed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, and played a three-song set at the worldwide broadcast Live 8 benefit concert on July 2nd, 2005 to help make poverty history for the poor African nations.

On April 7th, 2009, the band's twelfth album We Are The Same was being released in North America, and it immediately rose to Number 1 on the Canadian charts. The album features twelve diverse new recordings produced by Bob Rock who had produced 2007's World Container and is perhaps best known for his work with Metallica, Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Bryan Adams, The Offspring, Michael Bublé and Simple Plan. This album features songs that range from "levity and light to melancholy and anger" according to the band's website. Recorded primarily at The Bathouse Studio, band's recording studio located in a historical coach house west of their hometown, Kingston, Ontario, and its first single was "Love Is A First", which features the ironical addictive hook, 'love is a curse'.

Despite some side solo projects in the past couple of years, the band has completed a new studio album at The Bathouse Studio and in Toronto with Gavin Brown, who is perhaps best known for his work producing Metric, Three Days Grace, Barenaked Ladies and Billy Talent. The album is entitled Now For Plan A and it was released on October 2nd, 2012. This album's first singles were "At Transformation" and "Streets Ahead" and they are available on iTunes and through the band's website.

Man Machine Poem is the fourteenth studio album which is scheduled to be released June 17th, 2016. The album takes its name from a track on their Gold-selling 2012 release, Now For Plan A, and it was recorded at The Hip’s home studio The Bathouse, produced by Kevin Drew, founding member and producer of Broken Social Scene, Andy Kim (singer, songwriter and Arts & Crafts label co-founder) and Dave Hamelin, songwriter and producer from The Stills and Eight and a Half. Album pre-orders are currently available on either CD or Vinyl through the band's "Gift Shop" on their official website: www.TheHip.com or digitally through iTunes. “In A World Possessed By The Human Mind” and “Tired As Fuck" were its first singles, and both were made immediately available for digital download with the album's pre-order.

Early on May 24, 2016, The Tragically Hip announced via a post on their official website and through e-mail subscribers that its lead singer and primary lyricist, Gord Downie, is suffering from aggressive terminal brain cancer, and that the band will do one final national Canadian tour "For Gord". Concert dates for this final tour were available on-line through Ticketmaster, but sold out in minutes. There was a national outcry from devoted fans who claimed that scalpers had scooped up most of the tour's tickets using "bots". Petitions were filed to successfully encourage Canada's national television network, the CBC, to produce and air Live the final August 20, 2016 concert. Broadcast live from the band's hometown, at Kingston's Rogers K-Rock Centre, a national audience viewed The Tragically Hip's final tour show, The concert opened with "50 Mission Cap" and ended almost two hours later, after a third encore, with "Ahead By A Century". All proceeds from the tour were donated to The Gord Downie Fund, at the Sunnybrook Foundation for Brain Cancer Research. Donations can be sent to: http://sunnybrook.ca/foundation.

For the latest band details, please visit their official website: www.TheHip.com.
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The Tragically Hip Lyrics


'It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken' When the color of the night And all the smoke for…
38 Years Old Twelve men broke loose in seventy-three From Millhaven maxim…
50 Mission Cap Bill Barilko disappeared that summer He was on a fishing tr…
700 Foot Ceiling Let's go to the park, let's go watch 'em floodin' Out…
700 ft. Ceiling Let's go to the park, let's go watch them flooding Out…
700ft. Ceiling Let's go to the park, lets go watch 'em floodin'…
A Beautiful Thing In the ulcerating silence, perspective comes The way it alwa…
About This Map About this map, here we are, here See, this is us,…
Ahead by a Centrury First thing we'd climb a tree And maybe then we'd talk Or…
All Canadian Surf Club Well, there's a rockin' little spot Next to the Regent Theat…
All Tore Up We were a blown out of wicked proportions An accidental comp…
An Inch An Hour I want a book that'll make me drunk Full of freaks…
Another Midnight He was a coal mine in the spring Blinded with its…



Apartment Song Illuminate the obvious It's standing right here in front of …
Are We Family It's only human to want To inhabit every feeling you've got …
Are You Ready Hear the ol' whistle blowin' They're pulling the plug We got…
As I Wind Down The Pines As I wind down the pines It's the lines on your…
As Makeshift As We Are You do the combat math, I'm the war artist You can't…
As Makeshift As We Are ) You do the combat math, I'm the war artist You can't…
At The Hundredth Meridian Me, debunk an American myth? And take my life in my…
At The Hundredth Meridian ) Me, debunk an American myth? And take my life in my…
At the Hundreth Meridian Me debunk an American myth? And take my life in my…
At Transformation Gently breathing, lit by the morning sun Through the night, …
Baby The moon comes up, I start to sweat Call the doctor,…
Baby Blueblood i got a cool hot baby lot of callus on…
Black Day In July Black day in July, black day in July Motor City madness…
Blow At High Dough They shot a movie once, in my hometown Everybody was in…
Bobcaygeon I left your house this morning 'Bout a quarter after nine Co…
Bobcaygeon ) I left your house this morning, 'Bout a quarter after nine. …
Boots Or Hearts Well, I think that there's a problem here Her voice just…
Born in the Water Rolling hills all covered in suede I'm heat nervous and out…
Bring It All Back I've been carving you To see what form you take You were…
Bumblebee can i engage you a while? can i tug on…
Butts Wigglin The sweet sound of patent approval comin' down in a…
Cemetery Sideroad I had heart, but I used to be older I'm…
Chagrin Falls By design, by neglect For a fact or just for effect When…
Coconut Cream There's a cannon shooting coconut cream Forty gallons in a s…
Coffee Girl It's hard to leave your bed The cool and hard summer…
Cordelia Angst on the planks, spittin' from a bridge Just to see…
Country Day Country day A day in the unknown A gentle breeze gently blow…
Courage Watch the band through a bunch of dancers Quickly, follow th…
Courage ) Watch the band through a bunch of dancers Quickly, follow t…
Courage (For Hugh MacLennan) Watch the band through a bunch of dancers Quickly, follow th…
Crack My Spine Like a Whip crack my spine now baby like a whip bring it to…
Daredevil I can't imagine how you feel, and this is how…
Don Sled dogs after dinner Close their eyes on the howling waste…
Done And Done Interesting and sophisticated Refusing to be celebrated It's…
Dont Wake Daddy Sled dogs after dinner Close their eyes on the howling waste…
Don’t Wake Daddy Sled dogs after dinner close their eyes on the howlin' waste…
Eldorado He's a man-sized Eldorado Hooved a doo Who could blame him? …
Emergency I've often dreamt of a conversation That just keeps on comin…
Emperor Penguin I like the tone of your trumpet C'mon, let's spill some…
Escape is at Hand for the Travellin It was our third time in New York It was your…
Evelyn Evelyn-Evelyn Where were you last night? Evelyn-Evelyn Where…
Everytime You Go Like anyone, I knew a Dave Drove a Plymouth, shallow grave S…
Family Band I can smell a rat when it's all rat I can't…
Fiddler One, two, three, four, one, two September seventeen For a g…
Fifty-Mission Cap Bill Barilko disappeared that summer He was on a fishing tri…
Fifty‐Mission Cap Bill Barilko disappeared that summer, He was on a fishing t…
Fight We wake up different, rifle through our dreams Another placi…
Fire In The Hole You triumphed over will You had immunity to kill You had you…
Fireworks If there's a goal that everyone remembers It was back in…
Flamenco Does it diminish your Super-capacity to love? Does it dimin…
Fly Seventy days to cross the ocean Seventy nights where no…
Freak Turbulence You're older, you're haunted, You're ahead of your time. I…
Frozen In My Tracks Sometimes when I'm walking I dream I'm being taken for grant…
Fully Bring me back in shackles Hang me long out in the…
Get Back Again what's the deal with your dad? he don't even know my…
Gift Shop The beautiful lull The dangerous tug We get to feel small Fr…
Giftshop The beautiful lull The dangerous tug We get to feel small …
Goodnight Attawapiskat Hello! Good evening, folks We are the Silver Poets Here in…
Goodnight Josephine I remember a girl on her cellphone Surrounded by her friends…
Grace To He said, I'm fabulously rich C'mon, just let's go She kinda …
Grace, Too He said, 'I'm fabulously rich, C'mon just let's go.' She kin…
Greasy Jungle Greasy jungle, metropolis noir Easy tangles, the easiest so …
Great Soul Nothing works Oh and nothing works I've tried nothing and…
Gus What's troubling, Gus, you sound demented Is it because some…
Heart Attack Love steps in class when you're late no grace hanging round the…
Heaven Is A Better Place Today Here's a glue guy, performance god A makeshift shrine, a new…
Here In The Dark I have a thought that consoles me, a glow within…
Highway Girl Well I'm going down to see my highway girl Yeh she…
Honey I don't want to put another thought In my head. The humm…
Honey Please I don't wanna look for words I don't wanna work that…
Honey, Please I don't want to look for words I don't want to…
Hot Mic I am the hot mic, I pick up asides, of…
I Come in, come in, come in, come in From under these…
I'll Believe In You Well, it's 7 A.M. and she woke by the radio Yeah,…
I'll Believe in You (or I'll Be Leaving You Tonight) Well, it's 7 a.m. and she awoke by the radio Yea…
I'm A Werewolf Baby The moon goes up, I start to sweat call the doctor, call…
I'm a Werewolf, Baby the moon comes up, i start to sweat call the…
If New Orleans Is Beat Your smile is fading a bit, so I ration it Don't…
Impossibilium I love you even when I don't even know I'm…
In A World Possessed By The Human Mind Just give me the news It can all be lies Exciting over…
In Sarnia You're, you're in my heart It's in my pockets and…
In View I love you, you know I do Yeah, it's perfect Well, it…
Inevitability Of Death Puffy lips, glistening skin And everything comes rushing in …
It I'd been carving you To see what form you'd take You were…
It Can He said, 'Fuck this' and 'Fuck that' And this guy's the…
It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken When the color of the night And all the smoke for…
I’m A Werewolf Baby The moon goes up, I start to sweat call the doctor, call…
I’m a Werewolf, Baby the moon goes up, i start to sweat call the…
Josephine I remember a girl on her cellphone Surrounded by her friends…
Just As Well Ready, Bruce? Let's do it Well, here comes one from the dep…
Killing Time I need your confidence need to know you're mine When…
Lake Fever We can take a bit of a breather We can skip…
Last American Exit You know the reasons I can't conceal you kow I'm…
Last Night I Dreamed You Didn You kissed my fingers and made me love you Last night…
Last Night I Dreamed You Didn't Love Me You kissed my fingers and made me love you Last night…
Leave Do you mean the attack is routine? A bird asked of…
Let It might be late But it won't be early You got me…
Let's Stay Engaged It might be late but it won't be early You got…
Lionized Cold wind blowing over your private parts I know a lack…
Little Bones It gets so sticky down here Better butter your cue finger…
Locked In The Trunk Of A Car They don't know how old I am They found armor in…
Lonely End Of The Rink I looked up and you were there Just sitting there all…
Long Time Running Does your mother tell you things? Long, long when I'm gone? …
Looking for a Place to Happen I've got a job, I explore, I follow every little…
Love Is A First I've been interpreted and shrunk I've been as touch less as…
Luv There are words I carry in my heart Words I carry…
Machine I write about words, I find treasure or worse I…
Man I'm a man and I'm a man I do what…
Man Machine Poem See It works In monkeys You're right Again But it is a thin …
Mean Streak Is it a mean streak, you'd swear, you'd swear? We never…
Membership Whether laying down yourself beside it Or slipping into its …
Montreal she used to like lavender pantsuits long black velvet gloves…
Morning Moon The reactor's down I guess for Labour Day, today It's the fi…
Music at Work Everything is bleak It's the middle of the night You're all …
Nautical Disaster I had this dream where I relished the fray And the…
New Orleans Is Sinking All right Bourbon blues on the street, loose and complete U…
New Orleans Is Sinking ) Bourbon blues on the street, loose and complete Under skies …
No Threat Got a window-washer's head For an unmakeable bed For lonelin…
Not Necessary Oh, you're so calico You're all the colors in the world You'…
Now For Plan A Yeah, I know, I know, I know It's still not enough Nothing…
Now The Struggle Has A Name Now, the apology done Applause can begin Now, the apologies …
Ocean Next I don't understand, I just live and do "Congratulations" yo…
Oh Honey Oh hot air balloon Your ropes drag in the ground In the…
On The Verge Here we are now where are we? It's like nothing I've…
One Night In Copenhagen When the drugs hit you Tingly begins Conviction plus tone eq…
Opiated He bought two fifths of lead-free gasoline Said, "the bottle…
Ouch I mothballed a king, I mummified the thing Put him somewhere…
Pigeon Camera It was handsome at the auction Oh but when we got…
Poets Spring starts when a heartbeat's pounding When the birds can…
Pretend If I ask you a question Are you going to lie…
Psychodelic Ramblings of Rich Kids i hide away inside when you disappear you use some friends…
Put If Off I wrote unfriendly things, truly cruel, On the day that…
Put It Off I wrote unfriendly things, truly cruel On the day that you…
Puttin' Down Held a bird's egg between her breasts There's reasons for t…
Queen Of The Furrows Win Toronto, yelled the Queen of the Furrows This is how…
Radio Show holding in smoke til your father passes my perspectives are…
Reformed Baptist Blues comely woman why you treating me this way? got religion inst…
Save The Planet The man 'cross the street, he don't move a muscle Though…
Scared I could make you scared, if you want me to I'm…
Sharks Sharks don't attack the Irish, It's mostly Australians. Th…
She Didn Yeah, oh yeah Born a queen up on her side, and…
Sherpa Me and the vivid girl In our hammock to the stars Staring…
Silver Jet There's a still in the night, a tuneless moonlight Just the,…
Small Town Bringdown Been to Reno Drives an El Camino Can you dig that style? Hi…
So Hard Done By Interesting and sophisticated Refusing to be celebrated It's…
Something On Your imagination's having puppies It could be a video for ne…
Speed River You're visually Stunning, I'm almost shivering You'd become …
Springtime Instructions from the manual Could not have been much more p…
Springtime In Vienna ) Instructions from the manual could not have been much more…
Stay It might be late but it won't be early You got…
Streets Ahead You were streets ahead, I couldn't sleep a wink Staring in…
Summer Does summer exist in its praises? Does summer exist in its…
Take Forever Whenever a man, whenever a man Tries to be more like…
The Bastard If you ask me how I knew, I saw you. I…
The Bear What's troubling, Gus, you sound demented Is it because some…
The Completist You lured me with your diamond flower You lured me with…
The Completists You lured me with your diamond flower You lured me with…
The Dark Canuck This one is for you And it goes on and on…
The Darkest One Come in, come in, come in, come in From under these…
The Depression Suite Under the pillow I bury my head and try to shut…
The Dire Wolf In that September off Isle Aux Morts The desultory sea grew…
The Direwolf In that September off Isle Aux Morts The desultory sea grew…
The Drop Off When the summer is young and nobody has their price No…
The Drop‐Off When the summer is young and nobody has their price No…
The Exact Feeling The exact feeling Is coming back around The tiger's wheeling…
The Heart Of The Melt There's me then there's you And I could dance with the…
The Kids Don't Get It You said, "If I ask you a question, Are you gonna…
The Kids Dont Get It You said, ‘If I ask you a question, are you gonna…
The Last Of The Unplucked Gems Violins and tambourines This is what we think they mean It's…
The Last Recluse We rode hard For the boat, hard as we could No tears…
The Lonely End Of The Rink I looked up and you were there just sitting there all…
The Lookahead I go back to the water When I get nowhere in…
The Luxury Zoo lion sobers up, starts to scream and shout A little…
The Modern Spirit In the dark before the train Just beyond the barn glow Where…
The New Maybe You could write, you could think, you could have sex You…
The Rules Legs scream at bikes and bikes scream at trucks And motorist…
The Wherewithal Richard talks too slow He'd get interrupted long before I al…
Thompson Girl Thompson Girl, I'm stranded at the Unique Motel Thompson Gir…
Three Pistols Alright Well, Tom Thompson came paddling past I'm pretty sur…
Three Pistols ) All right Well Tom Thompson came paddling past I'm pretty su…
threepistols All right Well Tom Thompson came paddling past I'm pretty …
Throwing Off Glass "Why is the world so creepy?", she asked After a car…
Thugs Everyone's got their breaking point With me it's spiders, wi…
Tiger The Lion This is Tiger the Lion Gimme the Knuckles of Frisco If there…
Tired as Fuck Tired as fuck The Greedy Palace has been keeping me…
Titanic Terrarium growing up in a biosphere with no respect for bad…
Toronto Did you know you were the rock plug for all…
Train Overnight I loaded the variables like masterpieces From under the germ…
Trickle Down Old lion's dying, got left behind Cut your teeth, lose your…
Twist My Arm There she blows, Jacques Cousteau Hear her sing so sweet and…
Use It Up Use it up Use it all up Don't save a thing for…
Vaccination Scar So the chemistry set And I'm not the saddest cheerleader to…
Vapour Trails Titillation's been replaced By interstate, brick face and Co…
We To boldly clap In a room full of nothing You never know It…
We Want To Be It Drip, drip, drip Baby, when'd you get so Zen? Drip, drip …
We'll Go Too To boldly clap In a room full of nothing You never know I…
What Blue Ah, it's what love looks like, in a world of…
Wheat Kings Sundown in the Paris of the prairies Wheat kings have all…
When The Weight Comes Down Afternoon, see a guy with rubies on his head And he's…
Wild Mountain Honey I don't want to put another thought In my head. The humm…
World Container There's a world container with your name on it And a…
Yawning Or Snarling One day in El Paso The cops go into the crowd Under…
Yer Not The Ocean Again I'm talking to the lake, I'm standing on the…
You Well, it's 7 A.M. and she woke by the radio Yeah,…
You Are Everywhere Hear the ol' whistle blowin' They're pulling the plug We got…
You're Everywhere You are everywhere, within and without Where it don't matter…


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