[Gunn]

"We Live To Survive Our Paradoxes"

I couldn't have picked a better grad quote.

[kidswirl]

Its Jaws or the Dark Canuck...
Should we stay for the Dark Canuck?
Everyone Hands Up
Who's for the Dark Canuck...

My Favorite Hip song...i love these lines...I always feel like they embody a canadian sense of self deprecation....

I also love the line

War isn't for children
War is nothing's enough.

True.

[Killer Whale Tank]

Practically all of 'Scared,' Gord's finest hour IMHO...'There's a precious few that can prove, at the root, this is all nothing but cold calculation...'

Also:

I'm discovering uses for you I thought I'd never find
I could been Chancellor without you on my mind

The strange mix of neediness and reproach captures so well, I think, the price we pay for love.

And:

Those left in the water got kicked off our pantleg
And we headed for home

Reminds me of my time in Grad School, somehow.

Finally, the chorus of 'You're Everywhere' haunts my sleep.

[opiated]

" I love you even when I don't even know I'm doin it"

ahh..Virginia..my love at the time...it summed up our relationship then, and I still think of her when i hear that song and realize how i fucked up and let it go....

[Douglas]

When the drugs quit you
as loyal as a fruit fly you'll mutter to yourself
you talentless f**k, good fucking luck.

Anyone who's ever done anything creative should relate to that one.

I love that line. I always play it when I am real pissed. Nothing tops spewing "you talentless fuck". Such a rank thing to say.

I try to live by the live "Use it up, use it all up, dont save a thing for later."
Loved when they opened with this. Really set the night up.

[Zenith]

"That night in Toronto, with its checkerboard floors"

I'd have to say this would be the lyric I'd choose as well. Infact, that whole song really. It reminds of my girlfriend, and when I went to visit her in Toronto. A fantastic time in my life, and a fantastic song to comemorate it.

[Lizard King]

Im not sure if I connect with a specific lyric, but I do with some of the songs for various reasons. My favorite lyric would have to be the opening from Throwing Off Glass..

"Why is the world so creepy she asked?"

great tune, Gord is a genius.

[HipFan1]

the only one I can think of right now, is

"I got a job, I explore. I follow every little whiff. I don't want my life to smell like this,, Looking for a place to happen...."

[inarbeth]

Hard to choose from so many brilliant lines but how about

"The human tragedy consists in the necessity of living with the consequences"

"You teach your children some fashion sense and they fashion some of their own"

and a word of prophecy for today's youth: "a generation so much dumber than its parents came crashing in through the window"

[MattyM]

As many people have said The Hip have some beautiful lyrics and as a newbie, I don't really know the songs well enough yet to have a favourite... but the first of their lines to really reach out and grab me was a simple one:

Coulda been the Willie Nelson, coulda been the wine...

Bobcaygeon is easily my favourite Hip track so far!

[Chris Tanz]

"playing dead to fuck the undertaker"

because I always thought it would be neat to fu ...

hang on. I've said too much.

ct

[Marcus1970]

"I think it was Algonquin Park. It was so cold and winter dark"

"I want to be your stars Algonquin"

My wife and I are both Hip fans and we love it up at Algonquin. Very romantic.

[Cpt. Trips]

"We're forced to bed but we're free to dream."



"Until we meet again, let's stay engaged"

[kleh]

I dont know what to believe, sometimes I even forget

[HipFan1]

"We're forced to bed but we're free to dream."



"Until we meet again, let's stay engaged"

That's a nice one too