Daoust

There's a thread like this in Tilted Music, but its for music of all genres... I wanted to create one for all the Tragically Hipsters out there. Any fan of their music can truly appreciate them for their amazing and absolutely dumbfounding lyrics. Gord Downie is a great poet, am I right?

So I would like you to either use this post to write down your favourite TTH lyric, or do your best to decipher or interpret a line or two from the Hip discography...

Here's some of my favourite lyrics, even though there are too many to remember:

1. zoo lion sobers up starts to scream and shout
a little dose of homefire got him all smoothed out

2. The walls are lined all yellow grey and sinister
Hung with pictures of our parents prime ministers

3. Sled dogs after dinner close their eyes on the howling ways
Kurt Cobain reincarnated sighs and licks his face

And here's one of the only Hip lyrics I figured out on my own:

"Drop a caribou, I'll tell on you" - Long Time Running, Road Apples

Well the Canadian quarter has, of course, a caribou on it, ( remember the song from Sesame St. with the beaver? " A quarter has a caribou on it, on it" ??) So to drop a caribou means to drop a quarter or make a call, and tell on you could mean talk to you...
What do you think?

So contribute everyone! Contribute!

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