1. |
Hotel Worth
03:55
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Yer walking me to the door
of what was it again?
Oh the Hotel Worth?
Or to the Hotel Merit?
A hotel with meaning
But I just don't understand
I just live and do
Congratulations to me or to you
I'm a man
re-receive achieve then lose
A hotel worth of meaning
I just don't understand
You drink so you can talk
without thinking about or thinking about
worrying about what you say
I don't drink when I sing
I don't drink
when I sing
you can't hear me
when I drink
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2. |
Useless Nights
02:57
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We're at cross seas
yea you and me
it's impractical to dream
in the wind from the west
and the current moving east
I'm as happy as
My least happy kid
I'm not happy about it, nor humiliated about it
We are together on this
Please be good to me
Yea save me from the useless nights
Sleeping in dreary places
I'm bored with being down
just listen, don't guess - please - alright
What am I for? Hey now?
to be just understood
jumping shadow to shadow, never eye to eye
in my neighbourhood
Everybody needs it
Needs to be understood
Whether we're jumping shadows
between the secret moon it's trying
and it's really, really, really, really good
Ah please be good to me
Yea please save me from the useless nights
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3. |
I Am Lost
02:26
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Singing songs
to calm the king
to stand where he stood
in the vast debris
Ah in the glory of the good
in every neighbourhood
looking at heights impractical to….
dream writing about words.
writing about dreams
about thoughts for free
the waste, the glory, the vast debris
I am made for this
to teach you what to
want I’m uncertain on purpose
to make you feel
that you’re not
I wanna show you
just how smart I am
Which is actually. Actually kinda dumb
I’m just a man
I worry about
you whether you
hate. hate me or not
or whether with me
or without me, I
I worry I am lost
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4. |
About Blank
02:37
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Come and gimme your gifts
Come, let me take you down
A phrase always remembered
“Forget in cruel happiness.
that even lovers drown”
I’m in awe of no one
anymore I have none of your fear.
Fighting’s going no where
you can find me
Always, just right there
I was made for this to teach
(me) you what you want
I’m uncertain on this.
but purpose to make you feel that you’re not
I am about blank
come and drown your gifts
I’m the holy fool
a different fool
a different idiot
The proper distance is cool-footedly close
come be surrounded
by those who love you the most
hmm come be surrounded
by those who love you the most
to be together, step into the most
Surrounded by those who love you
the most
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5. |
River Don't Care
02:19
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I write about words.
try and make them sound like my
thoughts of nature will still accept me
No matter what I want
Um River don’t care
What you write for it
Your throw-away thoughts where
you cast into it
what you want into it
I don’t care about nature
Nature don’t care about it
I throw all I had at it
ineffable shit
the pain, the blood and spit
It’s all invitation
to be indiscreet
to suck and blow at the same time
to work both sides of the street
River don’t care.
yes what I write for it
your throwaway thoughts.
what you cast for it
what you pour into it
I don’t care about nature
Nature don’t care about me
I throw all I had at it
ineffable shit, pain, blood & spit
I can’t love you now
I cannot be that guy
I couldn’t do what you do
I can not I cannot not to try
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6. |
The Least Impossible
02:34
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I want what’s beautiful
I don’t need what’s true
I don’t want the dark
I don’t want the end
don’t even want the dark preview
Nobody’s open
at your darkest lull
I’m not your best man.
constantly commenting
but I’m the least impossible
I try not to try
I try not to know
Up until thought itself
asks “Where do you go?”
I try not to try
I try not to know
Up until thought itself
asks “Where do you go?”
Until thought itself
asks “Where do you go?”
I know I’m no prize
Not even the best choice
I’m just the least
(the least) impossible boy – oh boy
I’m not the best choice
I’m not a choice at all
In fact: of all the boys I’m just the least
impossible
the least impossible.
Maybe I want to fail (now)
spec-tac-u-lar-ly
I don’t want to
want to just go
extinct, quietly
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7. |
Traffic Is Magic
02:25
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As you believe it all
Oh I believe less
depending on just how
you see traffic is magic
this all but seals it
Let’s all fall into bed
where it finally feels
there is nothing
nothing to be said
I am writing about words
to sound like my thoughts
words about words that
that nature nor I want
Such rough magic now
we read the dreams of birds
Such rough magic now
we read the dreams of birds
Even seers are struggling
to have their voices heard
Even seekers are struggling
to have their voices heard
this all but seals it
let’s fall into bed
this all but seals it
let’s fall into bed
where it finally feels.
there is nothing to say
nothing to be said
let’s all fall into bed
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8. |
Away Is Mine
02:23
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When I get high
I get conservative
I want what you want
to get it all – Ya got to give
and not to give it away – no way
When I get high
(really) there is no why any way
Making words that connect
that sound like my thoughts
that disappear slow as the sun
to the pale summer sun
the pale summer washed in the rain
When I get high
I get so humourless
wanting what I wanted
just to get it
and not to give it away
away is mine
and not give it away
Away is mine
Or words that don’t connect
sound like my thoughts
that disappears so fast
to the thin winter wash
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9. |
No Solace
02:18
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There you are
the highest point in my eye
There you are.
The place that I could never get
I worry about you
as as I always did
No solace for solace
For what I did
I can climb a ladder.
or lower myself down
I can climb a ladder
or lower myself down
stroke your soft hair
lower myself down
I can imagine us now
I always could back then
I pictured around the corner
there just laying down
I can imagine
you and I always could then
I pictured around the corner
there just lying
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10. |
Untitled
03:42
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No one says “Goodbye” anymore
for fear that’ll be ‘goodbye’
‘Goodbye’ Not just the end
“Goodbye” with no description
Of good journey
good discovery
a good plan for what’s ahead
Goodnight Darling
Still – feels – so good
I can feel so alone here
making lousy good nights
Sometimes no goodnights at all
Good night my darling, goodnight
Of a good journey
a good discovery
good plan for what’s ahead
Every night for the rest of your life
Night is good think of it like that
There’s nothing like that
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11. |
Hotel Worth (Acoustic)
02:57
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13. |
I Am Lost (Acoustic)
02:12
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14. |
About Blank (Acoustic)
02:05
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Come and gimme your gifts
Come, let me take you down
A phrase always remembered
“Forget in cruel happiness.
that even lovers drown”
I’m in awe of no one
anymore I have none of your fear.
Fighting’s going no where
you can find me
Always, just right there
I was made for this to teach
(me) you what you want
I’m uncertain on this.
but purpose to make you feel that you’re not
I am about blank
come and drown your gifts
I’m the holy fool
a different fool
a different idiot
The proper distance is cool-footedly close
come be surrounded
by those who love you the most
hmm come be surrounded
by those who love you the most
to be together, step into the most
Surrounded by those who love you
the most
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18. |
Away Is Mine (Acoustic)
02:23
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19. |
No Solace (Acoustic)
01:57
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20. |
Untitled (Acoustic)
03:31
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Gord Downie Toronto, Ontario
Gordon Downie was a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, musician, writer and activist. He was the lead singer and lyricist for the Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip, which he fronted from their formation in 1984 until his passing in 2017.
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