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เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 28 ต.ค. 2008
Highway Girl (Live - Double Suicide Rant) - Tragically Hip
Gord Downie's 'Double Suicide' monologue during a performance of Highway Girl.
She had a beautiful apartment
She had a beautiful apartment
Well, actually it was a lousy apartment
But sh-she's very handy with her hands
And she's got architectural digest magazines
So she knows what she's doing
She likes to decorate her apartment in the Santa Fé tradition
I told her it was dated
But I see more of the world than she does
She got an apartment where the property was cheap
Next to the free way
She said "I save lots of money but I lose lots of sleep,
in my apartment where the property is so cheap"
And We'd Laugh! And We'd Laugh! And We'd Laugh!
Ah, and we'd take pop shots at the passing cars *Ping*
And We'd Laugh!
We were dumping the body and we'd laugh.
We found a place that was dark and rotten,
a place where the police helicopters would never spot us.
I destroyed the map that we'd so carefully plotted.
Every day we're dumping a body, she and me
Every single day.
And we'd laugh about it.
That's when I knew it was time that we both killed ourselves together. Together we were nothing but a menace. Apart we were nothing but lonely. I read too much. I thought we should kill ourselves. She doesn't read a thing. She believed me.
Are you really the messiah?
Yes I am.
She was younger than me too, she was younger than me. And I said to her, I said, You know Colline, no one stamps on a burning bag of shit anymore. Nobody!
Are you really the messiah?
Yes I am.
Believe it.
So we opted to kill ourselves, as I said, but we had one rifle and one bullet, so I told her to put her head down close to the barrel and put the barrel sort of into her mouth and I'd be right behind it with my head right behind hers and I said her life would end instantly; mine might have a few extra minutes of agony and suffering.
She couldn't pull the trigger, so we attached a string to it around the lamp and to the doorknob.
The first person to come into her cheap fucking apartment would blow both our heads off.
Then we got, we got to thinking; we changed our minds. You know, I mean, we got scared. And, ah, and, and kind of chickened out.
And we'd laugh, you know, we'd laugh together. What were we thinking? We're not; together we're not that bad. We're not that bad. We don't need to kill ourselves. We don't need to kill ourselves.
And then the D-train rattled overhead and knocked the joor, door ajar, the joor adar, the door ajar, the door ajar, the jar adoor. The lock... the faulty lock, the door swung open.
And killed her.
That's my story
and I'm stickin' to it
She had a beautiful apartment
She had a beautiful apartment
Well, actually it was a lousy apartment
But sh-she's very handy with her hands
And she's got architectural digest magazines
So she knows what she's doing
She likes to decorate her apartment in the Santa Fé tradition
I told her it was dated
But I see more of the world than she does
She got an apartment where the property was cheap
Next to the free way
She said "I save lots of money but I lose lots of sleep,
in my apartment where the property is so cheap"
And We'd Laugh! And We'd Laugh! And We'd Laugh!
Ah, and we'd take pop shots at the passing cars *Ping*
And We'd Laugh!
We were dumping the body and we'd laugh.
We found a place that was dark and rotten,
a place where the police helicopters would never spot us.
I destroyed the map that we'd so carefully plotted.
Every day we're dumping a body, she and me
Every single day.
And we'd laugh about it.
That's when I knew it was time that we both killed ourselves together. Together we were nothing but a menace. Apart we were nothing but lonely. I read too much. I thought we should kill ourselves. She doesn't read a thing. She believed me.
Are you really the messiah?
Yes I am.
She was younger than me too, she was younger than me. And I said to her, I said, You know Colline, no one stamps on a burning bag of shit anymore. Nobody!
Are you really the messiah?
Yes I am.
Believe it.
So we opted to kill ourselves, as I said, but we had one rifle and one bullet, so I told her to put her head down close to the barrel and put the barrel sort of into her mouth and I'd be right behind it with my head right behind hers and I said her life would end instantly; mine might have a few extra minutes of agony and suffering.
She couldn't pull the trigger, so we attached a string to it around the lamp and to the doorknob.
The first person to come into her cheap fucking apartment would blow both our heads off.
Then we got, we got to thinking; we changed our minds. You know, I mean, we got scared. And, ah, and, and kind of chickened out.
And we'd laugh, you know, we'd laugh together. What were we thinking? We're not; together we're not that bad. We're not that bad. We don't need to kill ourselves. We don't need to kill ourselves.
And then the D-train rattled overhead and knocked the joor, door ajar, the joor adar, the door ajar, the door ajar, the jar adoor. The lock... the faulty lock, the door swung open.
And killed her.
That's my story
and I'm stickin' to it
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Ding Dong eat it up
I don't think he ever did get Mr. Roy Coulter to deliver his eulogy...
By now everyone should know that slowin down don't make it last.
Also; nobody stamps on a burien bag of shit anymore. 😉
6:02 That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
"Are you really the Messiah? ... Yes I am" ... "that's my story and I'm sticking to it" ... brilliant!!
I throw like a girl.
Is there a live recording with actual footage anywhere?
I wish they would release a rant album.
Slowing down don't make it last what a line
good example of an icon at his best....❤
I think this might be the greatest song of all time
Whatever Gord was on this night, gimme some of that! He's on one this whole show and it's fuckin epic
Fucking Paul Bernardo ruined this. That's why radio dropped this version.
We need Gord more than ever. He would have something to say about this tyrant selling our freedoms into oblivion. RIP one of the finest Canadians ever ❤️
And we laughed; love it!
I sang this song to a girl I was with for 15 long years, she hated it cause it was the truth!!! God bless gorrdy.
One of the best songs of all time. ALL TIME. Driving home to Buffalo from Cleveland one night back in '97 I almost blew the speakers out of my rear window at about two thirty one morning when 97.7 Hitz FM played this.
97.7 is legendary hahah. Go bills
@@Webbs3347 YES!!!!!!
Slowing down don't make it last .......... What a line
This. Song. Blew. My. Head. Off.
“no one stamps on a burning bag of shit anymore”.
Whomever complained and got this version banned around the country has no sense of (dark) humour.
❤️🇨🇦❤️
Been too long for a comment on this.... best ever live rant in rock history.... forget Plant , Mercury......just released Live at the Roxy in June 2022... do yourself a favor and get it now...... find the loudest and best system in your car or house and blast it......
Best song ever
If someone were to ask me what it was like to watch Gord and the boys live on stage, I would point them to this recording. Gord's rants were perfect.
I just played the original studio version and then the "rant" version. Wow, the band is soooo much tighter and Gordie is so set FREE, just whalin' it !! RIP Gordie, and I wish Ry Cooder could've delivered your eulogy.
Yeah, definitely one of the best live shows I've ever seen, 5 times in Winnipeg! Gord was a poetic genius! His "rants" we're the greatest!!
❤️🌹❤️
Only gordi and Morrison were on this level of mic skills
Remember driving My 5 ton truck 🚛 to New York. Played this non stop there and back. Thank you Gordie. RIP 🙏
Jason Perfium
One of the hips best
FUCK TRUDEAU AND FUCK CHINA
Thank You!! That was a MIND-BLOWING Experience that I Gaurantee will B played Many More Times!! They REALLY Kicked Ass at their live shows. I only ever saw them play outdoors - Which was Fantastic, but sometimes I wish I had Seen them INSIDE at least once!! This was SO GOOD!!
Epic.
are you really the messiah? yes i am.
Gord we miss you hope to up there with you smoking and drinking and singing songs the English unsung with you RIP Mr Dowine 🙏
6:10
Another great song. Thank you. Always loved this rendition.
This was a staple on many awesome road trips through the many mountains of British Columbia. Miss you Gord!
Best frontman in the business. Period.
We don’t step on burning bags of shit anymore..thank you Gord
Lyrical master. Probably one of my favorite Hip tunes ever.
My fave Hip song...saw them in London Ontario in 89...fell in love.
Thats my story and im stickin to it
A flame is never supposed to be extinguished so quickly,though when they are there usually incredible. We will again on the other side!
Everyday we're dumping a body her and me
Can anyone tell me we’re this is live from ? I’m trying to find the rest of the show
Absolutely the best version of this tune RIP gord when we lost you we lost a large peice of 🇨🇦
Couldn't agree more. I was thinking the other day: it doesn't even seem LIKE Canada anymore without the Tragically Hip.
@@keithshergold9257 cause it's true
I love Tragically Hip, but this song tho 🥰🥰🥰 its my absolute favorite song. Every time I hear him sing the memories of working his shows tho 😓😓 Fuck I miss gord
Allen Cross played this on his show “the ongoing history of new music” back when I was in college. I recorded the whole thing and it was the first time I had heard this version. By the end of the following summer all my friends had made recordings off of my tape, or other friends tapes. Man you could barely make out the song it had degraded so bad but we played the hell out of it.
That was such a good show
Alan Cross, my fav all-around music guy since 1985 (CFNY- the Spirit of Radio) ! The station was unique, and sponsored Canada Day festival events - Molson Park in Barrie. Amazing as The Hip played with a list of 10 or so CDN bands (1990 ?) and a few other years to follow. The BEST times 🎶🤘🏻...still listening to Alan 💯🙌🏻
@@kelleyb.4072 oh ya! Loved the roadside attractions.... went to many of them. I flew back home to see them when they played in Caygeon and it was like a roadside reunion. Good times.
Be right and true to your Real King. My God is forgiving and merciful