The Tragically Hip – Long Time Running

Tonight’s tune is a classic from the legendary Canadian alt-rock Hall of Famers The Tragically Hip.  I remember after my first year of college, I bummed rides from a buddy for an entire summer.  Said buddy only had one CD, which we listened to on repeat during road-trips, rides to the pub, and trips to the drug store for Gatorade and Advil.  I’m pretty sure Long Time Running was on that CD about 6 times, because I can’t remember a time the two of us sat in that car without singing it.  Originally, the song can be found on the Hip’s 1991 album Road Apples.  

Does your mother tell you things?
Long, long when I’m gone?
Who you talking to?
Is she telling you I’m the one?
It’s a grave mistake and I’m wide awake

Drive-In’s rained out
Weatherman wet-fingers the sky
He pokes it out, he pulls it in
He don’t know why
It’s the same mistake

It’s been a long time running
It’s been a long time coming
It’s well worth the wait

We don’t go anywhere,
Just on trips
We haven’t seen a thing
We still don’t know where it is
It’s a safe mistake

It’s been a long time running
It’s been a long time coming

Well, well it’s all the same mistake
Dead to rights and wide awake
I’ll drop a caribou, I’ll tell on you,
I’ll tell on you, I’ll tell on you.

You’ve got a boat-load o’nerve
But I would say you’ve been told
You work me against my friends
And you’ll get left out in the cold
It’s the same mistake

It’s been a long time running
It’s been a long time coming
It’s been a long, long, long time running
It’s well worth the wait

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