09-13-2016, 06:31 PM
In the negative review of the Hip that Tthip posted, the writer calls the Hip's lyrics "mainly pretentious and often incoherent or just plain silly." This got me thinking about some of Gord's lyrics that could potentially fit this description. I personally love Gord's occasional incoherence and weirdness and like to think of these type of lyrics as something that Gord didn't just pull straight out of the rock n' roll lyric handbook. The one that comes to mind for me is from Tiger the Lion:
"John Cage had come to feel
That art in our time
Was far less important
Than our daily lives"
This reads like something Professor Downie would lecture to a liberal arts class. There is no one in rock, besides Gord, that could deliver those lines without sounding cringe worthy.
I'm interested in hearing what you think are some of Gord's most head-scratching, cerebral, or weird lyrics. Or even something you think borders on pretentious. I don't want to walk on the well worn path of "favourite" lyric threads, but would like to hear about lyrics or lines that make you go, WTF? Lines that could only have come from the twisted mind of the Hip's front man.
"John Cage had come to feel
That art in our time
Was far less important
Than our daily lives"
This reads like something Professor Downie would lecture to a liberal arts class. There is no one in rock, besides Gord, that could deliver those lines without sounding cringe worthy.
I'm interested in hearing what you think are some of Gord's most head-scratching, cerebral, or weird lyrics. Or even something you think borders on pretentious. I don't want to walk on the well worn path of "favourite" lyric threads, but would like to hear about lyrics or lines that make you go, WTF? Lines that could only have come from the twisted mind of the Hip's front man.