Music Spotlight - 7/20/2005
The Tragically Hip is one of my very favorite bands ever.
Gord is truly a lyrical genius. He's a poet.
The Hip has many "classic" songs and many more hidden gems.
One song that fits the latter category is "Sherpa", track #11 on the Trouble at the Henhouse album.
It's understated, but rich.....controlled, but passionate.
The lyrics are as follows:
"Me and the vivid girl in our hammock to the stars
staring into the fire before TV, the remote-control's on Mars
In the dope of the pigment, in a poetic state of mind
in a flood of country, we lay down to kill some time
And we spoke languidly of the Northern Bee
and collecting dewdrops for tea underneath the cannonball tree
We were high, we were sherpa-high
we conspired against old friends
we said we must be friends or die
and we've died a thousand times since then
And we spoke long, at length, of the fight or flee
and of nothing in particularly underneath the cannonball tree
We're at the point where we love or hate it
we can write it down and obliterate it
when we're at the point when we can neither love nor hate it
we can lay down and obliterate it."
Check it out.
Until next time...
my name's Geoff.
Goodnight, everybody.
Gord is truly a lyrical genius. He's a poet.
The Hip has many "classic" songs and many more hidden gems.
One song that fits the latter category is "Sherpa", track #11 on the Trouble at the Henhouse album.
It's understated, but rich.....controlled, but passionate.
The lyrics are as follows:
"Me and the vivid girl in our hammock to the stars
staring into the fire before TV, the remote-control's on Mars
In the dope of the pigment, in a poetic state of mind
in a flood of country, we lay down to kill some time
And we spoke languidly of the Northern Bee
and collecting dewdrops for tea underneath the cannonball tree
We were high, we were sherpa-high
we conspired against old friends
we said we must be friends or die
and we've died a thousand times since then
And we spoke long, at length, of the fight or flee
and of nothing in particularly underneath the cannonball tree
We're at the point where we love or hate it
we can write it down and obliterate it
when we're at the point when we can neither love nor hate it
we can lay down and obliterate it."
Check it out.
Until next time...
my name's Geoff.
Goodnight, everybody.