The Tragically Hip (1987)

Small Town Bringdown -I've neither been there nor driven that

Last American Exit -So they didn't name him after the salad?

Cemetery Sideroad -Fun with geography

I'm a Werewolf, Baby -Warren Zevon would be proud

All Canadian Surf Club -Picton, Ontario: Broadway North

Up To Here (1989)

Blow At High Dough -Elvis who?

New Orleans Is Sinking -It actually is

38 Years Old -Too close to home

Boots Or Hearts -You thought your parents were weird?

Everytime You Go -It's the Cadillac of automobiles

When The Weight Comes Down -Your King and Queen of Prom Night '0

Trickle Down -Stick it to the man

Another Midnight -When sideburns and bell bottoms were cool the first time

Opiated -Read this, and you won't need to go to church on Sunday

Road Apples (1991)

Little Bones -Lee Harvey Oswald didn't do it

Twist My Arm -Sorry girl

Cordelia -Bill loves his plays

The Luxury -British Columbia road guide

Born In The Water -The shame of Sault Ste. Marie

Long Time Running -Drop her Majesty

Three Pistols -Tom Thomson had talent
Three Pistols Exhibit

On The Verge -Diefenbaker, medieval spirits, gardening tips and The Dead

Fiddler's Green -Too personal to play live

Montreal (Unreleased) -Powerful and poignant, perhaps their best ever

Get Back Again (Unreleased) -Shaharaim begat Zebadiah

Fully Completely (1992)

Courage (For Hugh Maclennan) -There's no simple explanation
Courage Exhibit

Looking For A Place To Happen -Found it

At The Hundredth Meridian -Are we there yet?

Pigeon Camera -High tech war machines that shit all over my balcony

Lionized -I kinda liked "The Bicycle Thief" myself

Locked In The Trunk Of A Car -Let's go lookin' for a fight in the New World

Fifty Mission Cap -Well, at least Leaf fans have something

Wheat Kings -David Milgaard didn't do it

The Wherewithal -Survey says!

Eldorado -Chester J. Lampwick's house (If you get that one, I'll buy ya a beer)

Day For Night (1994)

Grace, Too -These girls? Grace Kelly they 'aint

Daredevil -The Maid of the Mist is the best $12 you will ever spend on something legal

Greasy Jungle -Home of 24 Sussex, the world's longest skating rink, and me

Yawning Or Snarling -First American Exit

Fire In The Hole -Heads Up for Hate!

So Hard Done By -Can we stop at the Bare Fax? I need to pick up my girlfriend's pay cheque

Nautical Disaster -World War II and water didn't mix
Nautical Disaster Exhibit

Thugs -Hillbilly hodowns and hairbirds

Inevitability of Death -Terry's gift is forever green

Scared -Stalin and Hitler fight over Monet

An Inch An Hour -"...mon nom est Canadien aussi! C'est ca mon nom!" Avril & P.E.T.

Titanic Terrarium -SPOILER: it sinks

Trouble At The Henhouse (1996)

Giftshop -Even if you didn't build it, they still come

Springtime In Vienna -A symphony, a rebirth and a state of mind

Ahead By A Century -Just use yer fists

Don't Wake Daddy -Kurt Cobain and the Headless Horseman

Flamenco -A dance, a philosophy, a gypsy curse

700ft Ceiling -How to build a backyard rink, with your host: Gord Downie

Apartment Song -Are your cups and saucers tired?

Sherpa -The first man to really top Everest and Cannonball tree's

Coconut Cream -Stunt planes and power outages

Put It Off -"Behind The Garage" is good too

Live Between Us (1997)

The Story Of... -What's in a name?

The "Live Between Us" Covers List -What is Gord singing on LBU?

Phantom Power (1998)

Poets -The epitome of vague

Something On -Ice storms and guitar necks

Bobcaygeon -Braids, beatings and boats tied up in the bay

Thompson Girl -It would be one helluva long walk

Membership -We all want to belong

Fireworks -Paul Henderson and MC Hammer

Vapour Trails -Do migrant workers drink Nestle?

The Rules -They picked who as man of the year?

Chagrin Falls -Community chest and corporate America

Escape Is At Hand For The Travellin' Man -Fleeting friends and suicide

Emperor Penguin -They're all for the girls, but this one's for the girls

Music@Work (2000)

My Music At Work -They don't play traditional Hindu music on the soft rock stations 'round here

Tiger The Lion -Tom Cruise, Glenn Gould, Hugh Maclennan and John Cage in a Sopwith Camel

Lake Fever -Puttin' the moves on the great lakes
Lake Fever Exhibit

Putting Down -Jesus and New Jersey

The Bastard -Philadelphia, born and raised, on the playground is where I preach most of my days

Freak Turbulence -Because "Heritage Minutes" was copyrighted?

Sharks -You yell "baracuda," nobody blinks, but you yell "Shark" and you've got a full scale panic on your hands

Toronto #4 -For Gord's grandma

Train Overnight -All aboard

The Bear -Smarter than your average band

In Violet Light (2002)

Use It Up -More fun with existentialism and seizing the day

'It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken' -Rock, the road and comic books

Silver Jet -Canada and Britain attacked by Nazi's and killer wolves

All Tore Up -Dottie the bluegrass singer

Leave -The blind feed the blind, whispering things like: "On the money" and "Bullseye"

A Beautiful Thing -Cambridge and kids books

The Dire Wolf -Civil Rights and shipwrecks

The Dark Canuck -It goes on and on and on

Problem Bears -Shakespeare, Richler and Voltaire

Forest Edge -Him again?

Ultra Mundane -Catholics, coyotes and the Northern Lights

In Between Evolution (2004)

Heaven Is A Better Place Today -From the ice to the afterlife

Summer's Killing Us -It's just sing, sing, sing all day

Gus: The Polar Bear From Central Park -Bush is President? That'd depress me too

Vaccination Scar -When he's not playing video games...

It Can't Be Nashville Every Night -The Islamic Brotherhood of Oakridge

If New Orleans Is Beat -I'd like a grande corporate take-over with one homogenous culture to go please

You're Everywhere -If it bleeds, it leads

As Makeshift As We Are -Ya know, the way a dog shakes itself dry

Mean Streak -Winding roads and re-runs

At The Heart Of The Melt -By the time we got to Woodstock, we were half a million strong

One Night In Copenhagen -I just figured all the red lights were for traffic

Are We Family -No, no, the Sister Sledge song is totally different

Goodnight Josephine -Comet tails and concubines

Fighter Fighter -(Unreleased) Ugandan civil war and child soldiers

Yer Favourites (2005)

No Threat -Conceived in Hammer Town on New Years Eve

World Container (2006)

Yer Not The Ocean -World War Two and water once again

In View -Can you hear me now?

Fly -We will rock you

Luv(sic) -Frye away

The Kids Don't Get It -Squids, elks and the right whale

Last Night I Dreamed You Didn't Love Me -Creepy kids and Canada

The Drop Off -I guess that would be 'holy'

World Container -The Jewel of Ohio and Martha Wainwright

We Are The Same (2009)

Morning Moon -From across the lake

Honey, Please -Poetry of the earth

The Last Recluse -In your wallet

Coffee Girl -Two turn tables and a microphone

Now The Struggle Has A Name -Apologies < Action

The Depression Suite -Author and Athabaska

Queen of the Furrows -From the city to the farm

Speed River -It'll take you to Cambridge

Love Is A First -Vatican variation

Country Day -Glorious and free

Now For Plan A (2012)

At Transformation -An album unlike the others

Man Machine Poem -Birds that prey together...

Streets Ahead -...and you're not

The Lookahead -Get well Laura

We Want To Be It -And that's it

Now For Plan A -Horticulture and Hollywood

Take Forever -From Calgary, Alberta, Canada...

Goodnight Attiwapiskat -The True North

Solo Efforts And Side Projects

Gordon Downie

Coke Machine Glow (2001)

Vancouver Divorce -Double-double that last spike

SF Song -It's a San Francisco treat

Chancellor -Keep on rock'n in the Reichstag

Nothing But Heartache In Your Social Life -Actually, it is you...

Blackflies -Keep it beautiful

Lofty Pines -"That makes ya'll friends of mine"

Yer Possessed -The other green thing Gord's fond of

Gord Downie and the Country of Miracles

Battle Of The Nudes (2003)

Christmastime In Toronto -The decorated windows were always the best

Willow Logic -Wilderness Toronto

Pascal's Submarine -Subversion and Soviet submarines

Who By Rote -Mild wild west

Steeplechase -Ace on September 11th

The Grand Bounce (2010)

The East Wind -The laziest wind

Moon Over Glenora -Ferry'd away

The Dance and its Disappearance -We are both

The Hard Canadian -We are all The Hard Canadian

Gone -I can still push air

Yellow Days -Purdy for Cash

Night Is For Getting -Sound Familiar?

Retrace -High as an elephant's eye

Pinned -Trailing sash

Stripper's Union Local 518

Stripper's Union Local 518 (2005)

Shake It Off (walking with the king of funk) -He'll get your head bobbing

Full Flow Angry Boy -For a muppet, Cookie Monster rocks

No One's Watching -Demise of a teen queen

Bullet Proof White Limo -Bobby sings... well

Lost Lost Highway -Motels and Bill Murray

Everybody Knows The Words -Hey Jude, uh... na-na-na

Give Up And Go Away -Lopez!

Local Bear -Bear killed at Kaslo

Horses & Trains -Coal miner's lament

Nothing Can Bring You Back -Sad film and a dining room table

Sweet 'N Low -Temptation Melvin Franklin

The Radio (foggy hill) -Misty nights and music

Wave After Wave -Poets and Portuguese killers

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