The Tragically Hip: A National Celebration

[ Cheers and applause ] [ "The Last of the Unplucked Gems" plays ] -They say, "Why do you write so many songs that are indigenous to the area from which you come?"

I guess its because thats where were from.

The last of the unplucked gems The last of the unplucked gems The last of the unplucked gems [ Cheers and applause ] [ Cheers and applause ] [ Rock music plays faintly in background ] [ Cheers and applause ] [ Cheers and applause continues ] [ "50-Mission Cap" plays ] Bill Barilko disappeared that summer He was on a fishing trip The last goal he ever scored Won the Leafs the cup [ Crowd cheering ] They didn't win another till 1962 Year he was discovered I stole this I stole this from a hockey card I keep tucked up under My 50-mission cap I worked it in I worked it in to look like that It's my 50-mission cap It's his 50-mission cap And I worked it in - Worked it in - I worked it in And I worked it in to look like that I worked it in to look like that [ Crowd cheering ] You know this one, right?

Bill Barilko disappeared that summer - 1951 - He was on a fishing trip - In a plane - The last goal he ever scored - In overtime - Won the Leafs the Cup No, no.

[ Crowd cheering ] They didn't win another till 1962 The year he was discovered My 50-mission cap I worked it in I worked it in to look like that It's my 50-mission cap It's his 50-mission cap I worked it in - Worked it in - I worked it in And I worked it in to look like that I worked it in to look like that [ Crowd cheering ] It's my 50-mission cap It's my 50-mission cap Whoo!

Ahh!

Hey, it's my 50-mission cap Whoo!

Ahh!

Whoo!

[ Cheers and applause ] Ahh!

[ Cheers and applause continues ] [ "Courage" plays ] Watch the band through a bunch of dancers Quickly follow the unknown With something more familiar Quickly, something familiar Courage, my word - It didn't come - It doesn't matter Sleepwalk, so fast asleep In a motel that has the lay of home And piss on all of your background And piss on all your surroundings Courage, my word - It didn't come - It doesn't matter Courage, your word - It didn't come - It doesn't matter Courage, my word - It didn't come - It doesn't matter Courage, you couldn't have come at a worse time [ Crowd cheering ] There's no simple explanation Is anything important Any of us do And, yeah, the human... - Tragedy - Consists in the... - Necessity Of living with the consequences Under pressure Under pressure Courage, my word - It didn't come - It doesn't matter Courage, your word - It didn't come - It doesn't matter Courage, my word It didn't come, it doesn't matter Courage, you couldn't have come at a worse time You couldn't have come at a worse time You couldn't come at a worse time Courage Courage Courage [ Crowd cheering ] Whoo!

Whoo-ooh!

[ Cheers and applause ] Whoo-whoo-whoo-whoo!

[ Cheers and applause continues ] [ Bird calling ] [ "Wheat Kings" plays ] Sundown in the Paris of the prairies Wheat kings have all their treasures buried All you hear are rusty breezes Pushing around the weather vane Jesus [ Crowd cheering ] Zippo lighter, he sees the killer's face Maybe it's someone standing in a killer's place 20 years for nothing -- well, that's nothing new Besides, no one's interested in something you didn't do Wheat kings and pretty things Let's just see what the morning brings There's a dream he dreams Where the high school is dead and stark It's a museum, and we're all locked up in it after dark Where the walls are lined all yellow, grey, and sinister Hung with pictures of our parents' Prime Ministers Wheat kings and pretty things Wait and see what tomorrow brings Late-breaking story on the CBC A nation whispers, "We always knew that he'd go free" They add, "You can't be fond of livin' in the past 'Cause if you are, then there's no way That you're gonna last" Wheat kings and pretty things Let's just see what tomorrow brings Wheat kings And pretty thi-i-i-i-ings That's what tomorrow bri-i-i-i-i-ngs [ Cheers and applause ] [ Cheers and applause continues ] [ "At the 100th Meridian" plays ] Me debunk an American myth And take my life in my hands?

Where the Great Plains begin At the 100th Meridian We're at the 100th Meridian Where the Great Plains begin Driving down a corduroy road - Crashing through the window - Weeds standing shoulder-high - Through the window - Ferris wheel is rusting Off in the distance At the 100th Meridian At the 100th Meridian At the 100th Meridian Where the Great Plains begin Left alone to get gigantic Hard, huge, and haunted A generation so much dumber than its parents Comes crashing through the window - Through the window - A raven strains along the line of the road Carrying a muddy, old skull The wires whistle their approval Off down the distance 100th Meridian - 100th Meridian - At the 100th Meridian - You're gonna miss me - We're at the 100th Meridian Where the Great Plains begin - We're at the 100th Meridian - 100th Meridian - 100th Meridian - We're at the 100th Meridian - Baby, you're gonna miss me - At the 100th Meridian Where the Great Plains began I remember, I remember Buffalo If I die of vanity, promise me, promise me They bury me someplace I don't want to be You'll dig me up and transport me Unceremoniously away from the swollen city breeze Garbage-bag trees, whispers of disease Acts of enormity And lower me slowly, sadly, and properly Get Ry Cooder to sing my eulogy 100th Meridian - 100th Meridian - At the 100th Meridian - You're gonna miss me - At the 100th Meridian Where the Great Plains begin - At the 100th Meridian - 100th Meridian At the 100th Meridian - Baby, you're gonna miss me - At the 100th Meridian Where them Great Plains begin Begin Begin Begin!

[ Cheers and applause ] [ Cheers and applause continues ] [ "In A World Possessed By The Human Mind" plays ] Just give me the news It can all be lies Exciting over fair or the right thing at the right time Everything is clear Just how you described The way it appears, "A world possessed by the human mind" And then I think I smiled And then I think you said, "It's fine" And quietly I dressed In a world completely possessed by the human mind We're in awe of no one We've none of their fear Fighting's going nowhere, and we stay right here Where everything is quiet A little super-dangerous "The shadow of the law and with colors of justice" And then I hope I smiled And then I'm sure you said, "It's fine" They got no interest in a world Completely possessed by the... Human mind Come on!

A human mind Oh!

Everything is quiet A little super-dangerous Quiet enough to hear God rustlin' around in the bushes Oh, but it was you Girl, I was so afraid You said, "You shoulda seen the look on your face" And then I hope I laughed Then I hope I said, "It's fine" And quietly undressed in a world Completely possessed by the human mind Ah, ah, ahhhh Oh, woman, it was you Girl, I was so afraid You said, "You shoulda seen the look on yer face" [ Cheers and applause ] [ Cheers and applause continues ] [ "What Blue" plays ] Ah, it's what love looks like, in a world of reproach Completely absorbed in that, too Exciting over fair, always daily forward Always the power to choose In your eyes, it's what love looks like 'Cause it's still the longest thing that I do In your eyes, it's the useless nights And all the dreary places, but what blue Oh, I was always too uneasy, too for solitude Too into all the things you can do To come into the open, to come into the light Forward, daily forward for what blue In your eyes, what our love looks like It's the longest thing that we do In your eyes, all of our dark doors Our disenchanted paths, but what blue Ahhhhh Ohh, ohhhhh I love you so much, it distorts my life What drove and drives you drove and drives me, too When I think I'm clear, I think I'm doing fine Completely absorbed in what blue In your eyes, it's what love looks like It's the longest thing that you do Well, in your eyes, all the useless nights And all the dreary places, but what blue Whoo!

[ Cheers and applause ] Yeah.

Yeah!

[ Cheers and applause continue ] [ "Tired As F+++" plays ] Tired as... The Greedy Palace has been keeping me up See now then Can't and won't You will and can Tired as... It's so hard to wonder why when you don't feel worthy of Being aloft, wherever wind may blow You don't let your balloon touch the ground Or get so high that you can't let go May and June This lake of gin I only had to tilt the paddle toward my chin May and June The Sweet Sea It's so easy when you don't know what you're doing Tired as... I want to stop so much I almost don't want to stop See now then Can't and won't You will and can Tired as...

The Greedy Palace has been keeping me up Up high and aloft, wherever winds may blow You don't let your balloon touch the ground Or get so high that you can't let go May and June By the lake of gin You only had to tilt the paddle toward your chin May and June by the Sweet Sea It's so easy that you don't know how easy May and June, May and June, May and June May and June, May and June, May and June Tired as... Tired as... Tired as... [ Cheers and applause ] Thank you, Prime Minister Downie.

[ Cheers and applause continue ] [ "Machine" plays ] Well, you know, Prime Minister Trudeau's got me.

His work with First Nations -- He's got everybody.

He's gonna take us where we need to go.

[ Cheers and applause ] And we got to be a country, it's gonna take us 100 years... ...to figure out what the hell went on up there.

But it isn't cool, and everybody knows that.

It's really, really bad.

But we're gonna figure it out.

You're gonna figure it out.

I write about words, I find treasure or worse I watch the end of man and, and I dream like a bird I remain aloft, and I forget a lot And I try not to try, and I can remember or not I'm a real machine, it follows You're a real machine, fed on shadows I'm a real machine, follow?

You're a real machine, fed on shadows I return your gaze, and I wait in the rain All inchoate desires, I do what I hate I remain aloft, and I forget a lot Then I try not to try, and I can remember or not You're a real machine, it follows I'm a real machine, you follow?

Follow Whoo!

Ahh!

Ahh!

Ahh!

Whoo!

I'm a real machine, you follow?

You're a real machine, fed on shadows We're the real machines, it follows Yeah, we're the real machines We're fed on shadows [ Cheers and applause ] [ Thunder rumbling ] [ Cheers and applause continues ] [ Thunder rumbling ] [ Thunder crashing ] [ Cheers and applause ] [ Cheers and applause ] [ "Music At Work" plays ] Everything is bleak It's the middle of the night You're all alone And the dummies might be right You feel like a jerk My music at work, my music at work Avoid trends and clichs Don't try to be up to date And when the sunlight hits the olive oil Don't hesitate The night's so long it hurts My music at work In a symbol too far Or the anatomy of a stain To determine where you are [ Sings indistinctly ] No matter what you heard My music at work, in my music at work In my music at work I call it "Olga Waits" The crowd then entertains The dim possibility of showing some restraint The rain comes down berserk My music at work, it's my music at work On a star beyond the charts The dark side a drop of rain To determine where you are In a sink full of Ganges, I'd remain No matter what you heard My music at work, in my music at work In my music at work La, la la la la la La, la la la, et cetera La, la la la la la La, la la la, et cetera Everything is bleak It's the middle of the night You're all alone And the dummies might be right Outside the darkness lurks My music at work, it's my music at work Hey, fallen hummingbird My music at work From the middle of the Earth My music at work Bound for bed without dessert My music at work, here's my music at work Here's my music at work, here's my music at work My music at work, my music at work Here's my music at work, my music at work My music at work, my music at work!

My music at work, that's my music at work That's my music at work, that's my music at work That's my music at work!

That's my music at work, that's my music at work That's my music at work, that's my music at work [ Cheers and applause ] [ Cheers and applause ] [ "Lake Fever" plays ] We can take a bit of a breather We can skip to the practical part We can skip to the time of neither When we're together, even when we're apart I'll tell you a story about the lake fever Or we can skip to the coital fury You didn't say yes or no, neither You whispered hurry Hurry Hurry Hurry We can take a little bit further We can stick to the aftereffects part 'Not trying to make you a believer Don't want a little piece of your heart Just telling you a story about the lake fever Or we can skip to the neutral fury You didn't say yes or no neither You whispered hurry Hurry Hurry Hurry Want to be your wheezing screen door I want to be your stars of Algonquin I want to be your roaring floorboard I want to break the hearts of everyone Yeah, 'cause discontent until you reach Cease your investigation And bring back the days' events Good citizens and time well-spent Till we're talking in whispers again Until we're talking in whispers again Until we're talking in whispers again Until we're talking in whispers again Until we're talking in whispers again Until we're talking in whispers again [ Cheers and applause ] [ Cheers and applause ] [ Toronto #4 plays ] This is someone we know.

Did you know you were the rock plug for all of us Did you know in the conduit of Vesuvius You were far more unifying than you know I'm not a judge of suitable But you almost had it all Now you tell me when Tell me when it's imminent So you won't, you won't have to rise or fall Endure the wonder of survival The wipe-out loss The elation of free fall The rock bottom of betrayal Betrayal alone Alone Alone Alone Hello [ Cheers and applause ] -Nice.

[ "Putting Down" plays ] Held a bird's egg between her breasts There's reasons for the road, I guess To document the indigenous To paint and sketch, paint and sketch I'm starting to fail to be impressed United state of ricochet From the boardwalk to the Appian Way The diamond files, the corporate raves You'd practically kill not to be afraid And I'm starting to choke on these things I say I'm putting down, I'm putting down, I'm putting down I'm putting down, I'm putting down, I'm putting down I'm putting down, I'm putting down, I'm putting down Yeah Browbeaten out from underneath your dress The documented indigenous Civilization flipped its desk You know the rest, there is no rest And I'm starting to fail to know what's best.

I'm putting down, I'm putting down, I'm putting down I'm putting down, I'm putting down, I'm putting down I'm putting down, I'm putting down, I'm putting down Yeah Down Down Down Aah!

I'm putting down I'm putting down [ Cheers and applause ] [ "Twist My Arm" plays ] Uh!

There she blows, Jacques Cousteau Hear her sing so sweet and low Lull me overboard, out cold Gathered in and swallowed whole Yeah, do I want to with all your charm?

Do I want to twist my arm?

Ow, ow!

Yes, do I want to with all your charm?

Do I want to twist my arm?

You just hit me where I live I guess it looks quite primitive What was that supposed to prove?

Throw the calf or he'll throw you Do I want to with all that charm?

Do I want to twist my arm?

Do I want to with all that charm?

Do I want to twist my arm?

Whoo!

Just in my victim world Thirsty as a cultured pearl Culled and wooed, bitten, chewed It won't hurt if you don't move Do I want to with all your charm?

Do I want to twist my arm?

Yes, do I want to with all your charm?

Do I want to twist my arm?

Now, musical chairs, double dares, memorized stairs Shooting off flares, springtime hares Broken-down mares Cowered phones, big soup stones, prideless loans Grill-sick crows, motel moans And big fat Jones!

Martyrs don't do much for me Though I enjoy them vicariously After you, no, after me No, I insist, please, after me Do I want to with all your charm?

Do I want to twist my arm?

Yes, do I want to with all your charm?

Do I want to twist my arm?

Aw, do it [ Cheers and applause ] Whoo, whoo [ "Three Pistols" plays ] Alright.

Well, Tom Thompson came paddling past I'm pretty sure it was him And he spoke so softly in accordance To the growing of the dim He said, "Bring on the brand-new renaissance 'Cause I think I'm ready I've been aching all night long But now my hands are steady" Three pistols came - Yeah, sweep them all away Three people went on their way Three pistols strong Three people spent Well, he found his little, lonely love His bride of the northern woods But she took me to the opera house Like she said she would Then she sighed, she fell from the balcony Shakespeare's bent to touch She never had any time for me 'Cause I didn't protest enough Three pistols came - Yeah, sweep them all away - Three people went on their way Two pistols strong Two people spent Alright, alright, alright, alright, alright Alright, alright, oh, alright Alright, alright, alright, alright Well, little girls come on Remembrance Day Placing flowers on his grave She waits in the shadows till after dark Just to sweep 'em all away I say, bring on the brand-new Renaissance 'Cause I think I'm ready I've been shaking all night long But now my hands are steady Three pistols came - Yeah, sweep them all away - Three people went on their way Three pistols strong Three people spent Three pistols came - Yeah, sweep them all away - Three people went on their way One pistol strong Three people spe-e-e-e-e-nt [ Cheers and applause ] In the glowing days of the band -- In the glowing days of the band, with the help of a good friend, we've invented the scarf made out of two socks.

[ Cheers and applause ] Yeah.

A singer needs to keep his or her voice always warm.

[ Crowd cheering ] It only took me... 28 years to figure that out.

[ Cheers and applause ] Thank you.

Thank you, people, for keeping me pushing and keeping me pushing.

[ Cheers and applause ] [ "Fiddler's Green" plays ] You hear sharp.

September 17 For a girl I know, it's Mother's Day Her son has gone alee And that's where he will stay Wind on the weather vane Tearing blue eyes sailor-mean As Falstaff sings a sorrowful refrain For a boy in Fiddler's Green [ Crowd cheering ] His tiny, knotted heart Well, I guess it never worked too good The timber tore apart And the water gorged the wood You can hear her whispered prayer For men at masts that always lean The same wind that moves her hair Moves her boy through Fiddler's Green [ Crowd cheering ] Ahhhhhh Nothing's changed anyway Ohhhh, nothing's changed anyway Ohhh, anytime today [ Crowd cheering ] He doesn't know a soul And there's nowhere that he's really been But he won't travel long alone No, not in Fiddler's Green Balloons all filled with rain As children's eyes turn sleepy-mean And Falstaff sings a sorrowful refrain For a boy in Fiddler's Green [ Cheers and applause ] [ Cheers and applause ] [ Crowd chanting ] [ "Little Bones" plays ] It gets so sticky down here Better butter your cue finger up It's the start of another new year Better call the newspaper up $2.50 for a highball And a buck and a half for a beer Happy hour, happy hour Happy hour is here-e-e-e-e-e The long days of Shockley are gone So is football Kennedy-style Famous last words taken all wrong Wind up on that very same pile $2.50 for a decade And a buck and a half for a year Happy hour, happy hour Happy hour is here I can cry, beg, and whine To every rebel I find Please, just give me a line I could use to describe Baby, eat this chicken slow It's full of all them little bones Baby, eat this chicken slow It's full of all them little bo-o-o-o-nes So regal and decadent here Coffin-cheaters dead on their graves Music in all its delicate fear Is the only thing that won't change $2.50 for my eyeball And a buck and a half for my ear Happy hour, happy hour Happy hour is here Well, nothing's dead down here It's just a little tired Nothing's dead down here It's just a little tired Nothing's dead down here It's just a little tired Nothing's dead down here It's just a little ti-i-i-i-ired Baby, eat this chicken slow It's full of all them little bones Baby, eat this chicken slow It's full of all them little bones Little bones Little bones Full of all them little bo-o-o-o-o-nes [ Cheers and applause ] [ "The Last of the Unplucked Gems" plays ] [ Crowd cheering ] Violins, tambourines This is what we think they mean It's hard to say, it's sad but true I'm kinda dumb and so are you [ Crowd cheering ] When the mystique varies thus You can send a man to bury us It's hard to say, it's sad but true I'm kinda dumb and so are you The last of the unplucked gems The last of the unplucked gems The last of the unplucked gems Whoo!

Whoo!

[ Crowd cheering ] Whoo, whoo!

[ Cheering continues ] Whoo!

Whoo, whoo!

[ Cheers and applause ] [ "Something On" plays ] Your imagination's having puppies It could be a video for new recruits Just stare into the camera And pretend that you got the flu Or dream of impossible vacations And get all teary from the wind Look as though you're standing in the station Long after the train came in And see how the space tautens Like there's something on And you're never more hot than When you've got something on Picture a century of water Bury the pipeline guy right here Kill the dream of possible vacations With the sweep of a mapping pioneer Outside there's hectic action The ice is covering the trees And one of 'em's interconnecting With my Chevrolet Caprice Black out to phantom power And like there's nothing on And hammering the tower And now there's nothing on We'll ride the monorail Rocking gently home on the trail You want to show me the moon I know you're standing at the station I know there's nothing on I know that alienation I know the train's long gone I can see how your face tautens Like you've got something on It makes me feel just rotten But you've got something on It's true, it's true It's you, it's you, it's you It's really true, it's really true [ Cheers and applause ] Spring starts when a heartbeat's pounding When the birds can be heard above the reckoning carts Doing some final accounting Lava flowing in Superfarmer's direction He's been getting reprieve from the heat In the frozen food section, yeah Don't tell me what the poets are doing Don't tell me that they're talking tough Don't tell me that they're anti-social Somehow not anti-social enough, that's right And porn speaks to it's splintered legions To the pink amid the withered cornstalks In them winter regions While aiming at the archetypal father He said with such broad and tentative swipes Why do you even bother, yeah Don't tell me what the poets are doing Those Himalayas of the mind Don't tell me what the poet's been doing In the long grasses over time Don't tell me what the poets are doing On the street and the epitome of vague Don't tell me how the universe is altered When you find out how he gets paid, alright If there's nothing more that you need now The lawn cut by bare chested women Beach bleached towels within reach for the women Got to make it, that'll make it by swimming [ Song ends ] [ Cheers and applause ] I left your house this morning 'Bout a quarter after nine Coulda been the Willie Nelson Coulda been the wine When I left your house this morning It was a little after nine It was in Bobcaygeon where I saw the constellations Reveal themselves, one star at a time I drove back to town this morning With working on my mind I thought of maybe quittin' I thought of leavin' it behind I went back to bed this morning And as I'm pullin' down the blind Yeah, the sky was dull and hypothetical And fallin' one cloud at a time That night in Toronto Riding on horseback And keeping order restored Til the men they couldn't hang Stepped to the mic and sang And their voices rang with that Aryan twang I got to your house this morning Just a little after nine In the middle of that riot Couldn't get you off my mind So, I'm at your house this morning It's just a little after nine 'Cause, it was in Bobcaygeon Where I saw the constellations reveal themselves One star at a time One star at a time [ Vocalizing ] [ Song ends ] Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.

Thank you very much.

[ Cheers and applause ] Whoo!

If there's a goal that everyone remembers It was back in ol' 72 We all squeezed the stick and we all pulled the trigger And all I remember is sitting beside you You said you didn't give a...about hockey And I never saw someone say that before You held my hand and we walked home the long way You were loosening my grip on Bobby Orr Isn't it amazing anything's accomplished?

When the little sensation gets in your mind Not one ambition whisperin' over your shoulder Isn't it amazing you can do anything?

We hung out together every single moment 'Cause that's what we thought married people do Complete with the grip of artificial chaos And believing in the country of me and you Crisis of faith and crisis in the Kremlin Yeah, we'd heard all this before It's wintertime, the house is solitude with options And loosening the grip on a fake cold war Isn't it amazing what you can accomplish?

When you don't let no first nation get in your way No ambition whisperin' over our shoulder Isn't it amazing we can do anything?

Next to your comrades in the national fitness program Caught in some eternal flexed arm hang Droppin' to the mat in a fit of laughter Showed no patience, tolerance or restraint Fireworks exploding in the distance Temporary towers soar Fireworks emulating heaven 'Til there are no stars anymore Fireworks aiming straight at heaven Temporary towers soar 'Til there are no stars shining up in heaven 'Til there are no stars anymore Isn't it amazing what you can accomplish?

When we don't let no sensation get in our way No ambition whisperin' over your shoulder Isn't it amazing what you can accomplish, eh?

This one thing probably never goes away I think this one thing is always supposed to stay Yeah, this one thing doesn't have to go away No, no, no, no, no, no No, no, no, no, no, no [ Song ends ] [ Cheers and applause ] Thank you.

[ Cheers and applause ] [ Crowd chanting ] [ Cheers and applause ] Thank you very much, folks.

We all appreciate it.

We started here, as you know, and opened up to 13 people.

And our next show, we had 28.

And then the next Kingston show after that, we had six.

This is my favorite gag to do on this trip.

Weve played here a thousand times, played all the rooms.

Really glad about being here in Kingston.

We could play the university.

And we could play for the bikers.

And our idea was just that everybodys invited, everybodys involved, and tried to write that way and tried to think that way.

Um, we went through a period there where we had to work very hard to get the girls to come.

Uh, because the guys were just scrapping and being really weird.

And, uh, somehow we -- We got the girls to come back.

[ Cheers and applause ] And thank you.

Whoever did that, whoever were the cause of that one.

Um, on behalf of the boys and the men and women of our crew, um, thank you for a great tour and a great show.

[ Cheers and applause ] Really enjoyed the hell out of it.

Were going to go into the back, and were going to act like weve left, and youre going to cheer, and were going to come out and play.

[ Cheers and applause ] [ Cheers and applause ] See, I probably shouldnt have said that we go away and wait for applause, and then we come back and play because you didnt really even have to do anything.

Uh, and I could feel that almost.

A certain... Yeah, like you werent doing that.

You werent doing it quite like that.

But this is cool.

I think they want another song, Paul.

All right.

Bourbon blues on the street, loose and complete Under skies, so smokey blue green I can't forsake a dixie dead-shake So we danced the sidewalks clean My memory is muddy, what's this river that I'm in?

New Orleans is sinking, man, and I don't wanna swim Colonel Tom, what's wrong, what's going on?

Can't tie yourself up for a deal He said, "Hey north, you're south, shut you big mouth Down here, we do what you feel is real" Got no picture postcards, ain't got no souvenirs My baby, she don't know me when I'm thinking bout those years Pale as a light bulb hanging on a wire Sucking up to someone just to stoke the fire Picking out the highlights of the scenery Saw a little cloud that looked a little like me I had my hands in the river, my feet back up on the banks Looked up to the Lord above and said "Hey, Gordie, thanks" Sometimes I feel so good, I gotta scream She said, "Gordie baby, I know exactly what you mean" She said, she said, I swear to God she said Yeah My memory is muddy, what's this river that I'm in?

New Orleans is sinking, and I don't wanna swim Swim Swim [ Song ends ] [ Cheers and applause ] Well, I think that there's a problem here Your voice just don't sound right But I left myself on your answering machine Said, "I'm back in town tonight" I feel I've stepped out of the wilderness All squint eyed and confused But even babies raised by wolves They know exactly when they've been used See when it starts To fall apart Man, it really falls apart Like boots or hearts When they start They really fall apart Fingers and toes, fingers and toes Forty things we share Forty one if you include The fact that we don't care Now you've blocked off most of Main Street For your faith parade Yeah, everyone in town now, you probably all agree You're lying in a bed I made See when it starts To fall apart Man, it really falls apart Like these boots, these hearts Oh, when they start They really fall apart Well, fall apart Now you won't even let me talk to you We got some air to clear We'd probably only agree on one thing anyway That's what the hell is happening here?

Fingers and toes, fingers and toes Forty things we share Yeah, forty one if you include The fact that we don't care See when it starts To fall apart Man, it really falls apart Just like in boots, hearts When we start We really fall apart Well, fall apart [ Song ends ] [ Cheers and applause ] They shot a movie once, some kind of Elvis thing Everybody was in it, just to hear me sing Out at the speedway, some kind of Elvis thing Well, I ain't no movie star But I can get behind anything Yes, I can get behind anything Get it out, get it all out Yeah, stretch that thing Make it last, make it last At least until the supper bell rings Well, the taxi driver likes his rhythm Never likes the stops Throes of passion, throes of passion When something just threw us off Yeah, sometimes the faster it gets The less you need to know But you gotta remember The smarter it gets The further it's gonna go When you blow at high dough When you blow at high dough Baby, I feel fine I'm pretty sure it's genuine It makes no sense, makes no sense I'll take it free anytime Whoever fits her usually gets her It was the strangest thing how she moved so fast Moved so fast Out of our wedding ring Well, sometimes the faster it gets The less we need to know But we gotta remember The smarter we get The further we're gonna go When you blow at high dough When you blow at high dough Out at the speedway, same Elvis thing I can't catch her, but I can get behind anything Yes, I can get behind anything I can get behind anything Sometimes the faster it gets The less we need to know But we gotta remember The smarter we gets The further we're gonna go When you blow at high dough When you blow at high dough Yeah, blow at high dough Blow at high dough Out at the speedway Same Elvis thing Out at that speedway Same Elvis thing Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.

[ Cheers and applause ] Thank you to this fine building.

For a gathering of the community.

Thank you to the men and women behind the show helping us put on the show.

[ Cheers and applause ] Thank you to the Prime Minister for coming to our show.

Really means a lot to all of us.

But mostly thank you, everybody.

Thank you very, very much.

And the province of this country.

I meant the -- I was going to say the mayor.

I meant the Prime Minister.

Hes going to be looking good for about at least 12 more years.

I dont know if theyll let you go beyond that, but hell do it.

Were in good hands, folks.

Real good hands.

He cares about the people way up north that we were trained our entire lives to ignore.

Trained our entire lives to hear not a word of whats going on up there, but whats going on up there aint good.

Its maybe worse than its ever been.

So its not on the improve, and were going to get it fixed.

But we got the guy to do it, to start, to help.

[ Cheers and applause ] Thank you, everybody.

Thanks for listening to that.

Thanks for listening period.

All right?

Have a nice life.

[ Cheers and applause ] I had this dream where I relished the fray And the screaming filled my head all day It was as though I'd been spit here Settled in, into the pocket Of a lighthouse on some rocky socket Off the coast of France, dear One afternoon, 4,000 men died in the water here And 500 more were thrashing madly As parasites might in your blood Now I was in a lifeboat designed for 10, 10 only Anything that systematic would get you hated It's not a deal nor a test Nor a love of something fated death The selection was quick, the crew was picked in order And those left in the water Got kicked off our pant leg And we headed for home Then the dream ends when the phone rings "You doing all right?"

She said, "It's out there most days and nights But only a fool would complain" Anyway, Susan, if you like Our conversation is as faint a sound in my memory As those fingernails scratching on my hull [ Vocalizing ] Scratching on my hull Yeah, scratching on my hull [ Song ends ] [ Cheers and applause ] I could make you scared, if you want me to I'm not prepared, but if I have to I can make you scared It's kind of 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'll think God's left the museum for good I can make you scared, if that's what I do If you're prepared, if I have to If I make you scared, you pay me to 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 are 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 can make me scared, if that's what you do If I'm unclear If I can get out of this thing with me and you If you feel scared, and a bit confused I got to say, this sounds a little beyond Anything I'm used to Precious few that can prove at the root This is all nothing but cold calculation Clearly entranced you're leaving back now Defanged destroyer limps into the bay Down at the beach, it's attracting quite a crowd As kids wade through the blood out to it to play Okay, 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 And I wasn't sure I was getting through I got to go It's been a pleasure doing business with you [ Song ends ] [ Cheers and applause ] He said, "I'm fabulously rich Come on just let's go" She kind of bit her lip "Jeez, I don't know" But I can guarantee There'll be no knock on the door I'm total pro That's what I'm here for I come from downtown Born ready for you Armed with will And determination, and grace, too The secret rules of engagement Are hard to endorse When the appearance of conflict Meets the appearance of force But I can guarantee There'll be no knock on the door I'm total pro here That's what I'm here for I come from downtown Born ready for you Armed with skill and it's frustration And grace, too Him, here Now, ugh!

Him, here Now, ugh!

[ Screams ] [ Screams ] [ Screams ] [ Screams ] [ Song ends ] [ Cheers and applause ] [ Cheers and applause ] [ Cheers and applause ] [ Cheers and applause ] [ Cheers and applause ] [ Cheers and applause ] [ Cheers and applause ] [ Cheers and applause ] [ Cheers and applause ] Okay, we're officially into uncharted waters.

We never do third ones.

So let's see what happens.

They don't know how old I am They found armor in my belly From the sixteenth century Conquistador, I think They don't know how old I am They found armor in my belly Passion out of machine revving tension Lashing out at machine revving tension Rushing by the machine revving tension Morning broke out the backside of a truck-stop The end of a line a real, rainbow-likening, luck stop Where you could say I became chronologically fucked up Put ten bucks in just to get the tank topped off Then I found a place, it's dark and it's rotted It's a cool, sweet kinda place Where the coppers won't spot it And I destroyed the map, I even thought I forgot it However, every day I'm dumping the body It'd be better for us if you don't understand It'd be better for me if you don't understand Yeah And I found a place, it's dark and it's rotted It's a cool, sweet kinda place Where the coppers won't spot it And I destroyed the map that I'd carefully dotted However, every day I'm dumping the body It'd be better for us if you don't understand It'd be better for us if you don't understand It'd be better for me if you don't understand Let me out Let me out Let me out Let me out Let me out Let me out Let me out [ Song ends ] [ Cheers and applause ] The beautiful lull The dangerous tug We get to feel small From high up above And after a glimpse Over the top The rest of the world Becomes a gift shop The pendulum swings For the horse like a man Out over the rim Is ice cream to him The beautiful lull The dangerous tug We get to feel small But not out of place at all We're forced to bed But we're free to dream All us human extras All us herded beings And after a glimpse Over the top The rest of the world Becomes a gift shop I don't know what to believe Sometimes I even forget And if it's a lie Terrorists made me say it The beautiful lull The dangerous tug We get to feel small From high up above From high up above From high up above From high up above From high up above From high up above Good night, Marysville.

Good night, all.

We're gonna give you one more.

And then we're gonna hit the road.

[ Vocalizing ] Whoo, whoo, whoo!

[ Song ends ] [ Cheers and applause ] Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.

First we'd climb a tree And maybe then we'd talk Or sit silently And listen to our thoughts With illusions of someday Cast in a golden light No dress rehearsal This is our life And that's where the hornet stung me And I had a feverish dream With revenge and doubt Tonight, we smoke them out You are ahead by a century You are ahead by a century You are ahead by a century Stare in the morning shroud And then the day began I tilted your cloud You tilted my hand Rain falls in real time And rain fell through the night No dress rehearsal, this is our life But that's when the hornet stung me And I had a serious dream With revenge and doubt Tonight, we smoked them out You are ahead by a century You are ahead by a century You are ahead by a century You are ahead by a century You are ahead by a century You are ahead by a century And disappointing you is gettin' me down [ Song ends ] [ Cheers and applause ] Thank you.

You're wonderful.

Thank you for that.

[ Cheers and applause ] [ Cheers and applause ] [ Cheers and applause ] [ Cheers and applause ] I would say you've been told You work me against my friends and you'll get Left out in the cold It's the same mistake It's been a long time running It's been a long time coming It's been a long, long, long time running It's well worth the wait It's well worth the wait It's well worth the wait It's well worth the wait