She has broken free of at least some of what thwarts and binds us now.
She is living one hundred years into the future. He is thinking of the past and struggling in the present.
The singer is addressing his partner, who is perhaps the same person he climbed trees with as a child. The chorus is six words - “You are ahead by a century” - repeated three times. Political agitators were ahead by a century The final line of the bridge - like the final line of the verse - returns us to the present: “Tonight we smoke them out.” Literally, of course, the “them” in this line refers to the hornets, but it also refers to “revenge and doubt.” The singer plans to use smoke to drive the hornets from their nest, in the same way that he hopes to drive revenge and doubt from himself, in an attempt to return to an earlier time when he lived free of these emotions. The voice of the child is again captured when he explains - perhaps to a parent - “that’s where the hornet stung me.” This unexpected and unpleasant experience marks the end of childhood’s “golden light,” and brings on the “feverish dream” of adulthood, where we are all addled by emotions such as “revenge and doubt.” In the bridge, the “illusions” of childhood are inevitably and almost accidentally punctured. Having been back to childhood, and then forward to “someday,” the verse closes with the present and an insistence on living as fully and genuinely as possible: “No dress rehearsal / This is our life.” They have “illusions of someday” that as children cast “a golden light.” But as the rest of the song reveals, their ideas of the future are “illusions.” It will not be as they planned or hoped. The singer and his friend have played together many times: “First thing we’d climb a tree / And maybe then we’d talk / Or sit silently / And listen to our thoughts.”Īmong other things, the two discuss what they will do when they get older, or what they think their future will be like. It begins with the words “First thing,” which immediately captures the excitement children feel when they recount their day. (Courtesy of TIFF) Childhood’s golden years The writer attended the Tragically Hip’s final tour stop in Kingston, Ont. Words don't make the rain go.A still from the documentary, Long Time Running, captures frontman of the Tragically Hip, Gord Downie, as he leads the band through a concert in Vancouver last summer. "Grace, Too" from 1994's "Day For Night. When the appearance of conflict, meets the appearance of force." "The secret rules of engagement, are hard to endorse. "Fifty-Mission Cap" from 1992's "Fully Completely." They didn't win another until 1962, the year he was discovered." The last goal he ever scored won the Leafs the Cup. Besides, no one's interested in something you didn't do." Twenty years for nothing, well that's nothing new. Maybe it's someone standing in a killer's place. "In his Zippo lighter, he sees the killer's face. "Courage (For Hugh Maclennan)" from "Fully Completely." And yeah the human tragedy, consists in the necessity, of living with the consequences, under pressure, under pressure. But they still stare at their shoes when they pass our place." Folks went back to normal when they closed the case. Local boy went to prison, man's buried on the hill. "See my sister got raped, so a man got killed. We haven't seen a thing, we still don't know where it is." And those left in the water, got kicked off our pant leg. The selection was quick, the crew was picked in order. It's not a deal nor a test nor a love of something fated. Anything that systematic would get you hated. Now I was in a lifeboat designed for ten and ten only. And five hundred more were thrashing madly, as parasites might in your blood. "One afternoon, four thousand men died in the water, here. "Ahead By a Century" off "Trouble at the Henhouse" With illusions of someday, cast in a golden light. Here's a collection of memorable lines from Tragically Hip songs and Downie's solo projects: Gord Downie's lyrics shone attention on Canada's history, neglected social problems, legal injustices, and the stories of small-town Canadians.
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