The Tragically Hip: Courage (for Hugh Maclennan) Meaning
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Courage (for Hugh Maclennan) Lyrics
Watch the band through a bunch of dancers
Quickly, follow the unknown with something more familiar.
Quickly something familiar
Courage, my word it didn't come it doesn't matter
Sleepwalk, so fast asleep in a motel
that has the lay of home and...
Quickly, follow the unknown with something more familiar.
Quickly something familiar
Courage, my word it didn't come it doesn't matter
Sleepwalk, so fast asleep in a motel
that has the lay of home and...
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It's about a guy that wants to commit suicide and doesn't.
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Hugh MacLennan was a Canadian author, and the song was inspired by his novel The Watch That Ends The Night.
The central theme of the novel, which is about a man who was thought to have died re-appearing in post-WWII Montreal, might be reflected in the bridge:
There's no simple explanation,
for anything important, any of us do.
Yeah, the human tragedy
consists in the necessity
Of living with the consequences
Under pressure.
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