"Bobcaygeon"- The Tragically Hip

[enigmatic]

If you're a Canadian (or like me, an expat in Canada), you know all about The Tragically Hip. Starting out as a rock solid blues-based rock band fronted by Gordon Downie, whose impressionistic lyrics drenched in Canadiana and completely out-there presence (especially live) The Hip put out one classic album after another through the 90's.

"Bobcaygeon" is an Canadian FM staple w/ typically open-ended lyrics from Gordo, and and one of their most elegant melodies. I don't think Gordo's ever sounded better, and it's impossible not to be at least touched by this song, even after hearing it 10,000 times...


I left your house this morning about 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 I saw the constellations
Reveal themselves one star at a time

Drove back to town this morning
With working on my mind
I thought of maybe quitting
Thought of leaving it behind
Went back to bed this morning
And as I'm pulling down the blind
The sky was dull and hypothetical
And falling one cloud at a time

That night in Toronto with its checkerboard floors
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
Just a little after nine
Cause it was in Bobcaygeon where I saw the constellations
Reveal themselves one star at a time...

[ghostsofgiants]

1. Those guys are great...

And annoyingly enough, one of the many victims of my recent, long-running missed show streak (which thankfully seems to have ended).

[enigmatic]

2. One of the great mysteries

are how they never caught on in the US; they's seem to be a natural. And I never bought the whole "they are too Canadian" BS that some A&R people have pushed..

[ghostsofgiants]

3. Yeah, that's definitely weird...

Aren't Nickelback pretty big in the US now? How the fuck does that happen? Not that Nickelback are "too Canadian" or anything...just too awful.