“Fiddler’s Green” (written about Downie losing his nephew at an early age, Fiddler’s Green was such an emotional of a song that the Hip didn’t play it for fifteen years. They didn’t win another till nineteen sixty two If his bride didn’t like it Saint Peter wouldn’t mind the death of Gord Downie, Little Mosque on the Prairie, Sir John A. With that in mind, CBC Music has collected the following 26 Gord Downie quotes that have made us think, smile, create and reflect about life, music, art, work and the things that matter. He bought a nice blue suit with the money he could find In it, he quotes the great threnody from Lucia di Lammermoor: I cannot but. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young) Canadians are lucky to have the creative contributions of Gord Downie, frontman for the Tragically Hip, who passed away this week at the age of 53. It’s a cool, sweet kind of place where the copters won’t spot itĪnd I destroyed the map, I even thought I forgot it Then I found a place, it’s dark and it’s rotted Our heartbeat, our heartbeat, our heartbeat You said any time of the night was also fine I guess I’m too slow, yes, I’m too, yes, I’m too slow It was often rumoured that the singer in question was Kurt Cobain though that was later clarified to be a lesser known singer named Jim Ellison of a band called Material Issues.) “Escape is at Hand For The Travelling Man” (this song is about the Hip’s brief encounter with another band whose lead singer eventually committed suicide.
One afternoon four thousand men died in the water hereĪnd five hundred more were thrashing madly We don’t go to hell, the memories of us doĪnd we’ve died a thousand times since then Whispers of disease and the acts of enormityĪnd lower me slowly and sadly and properly OK you made me scared, You did what you set out to do Im not prepared, really had me Going there for a minute or two He said, you made me scared too, I wasnt. You’ll dig me up and transport me, unceremoniouslyĪway from the swollen city breeze, garbage bag trees
If they bury me some place I don’t want to be If I die of vanity, promise me, promise me Or maybe it’s because death and dying has long been a favourite subject of Downie’s (the Hip even have a song called “Inevitability of Death”!) which makes his (sorry) inevitable death seem less surprising somehow? Maybe it’s because cancer fucking sucks and I sometimes go numb hearing about another person stricken with this disease before their time. Maybe it was because Gord Downie already seems immortal as one of the biggest icons in Canadian music history (while also embodying the quiet gentle kindness Canadians pride ourselves on.) Maybe it was the fact that the Hip are planning a tour this summer, even in light of this news, that took away from the severity of the diagnosis. Maybe it was the shock but when I heard the news that Gord Downie of the Tragically Hip had terminal brain cancer, it didn’t really register in more than a “oh, that sucks” sense.
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