The Bastard - The Tragically Hip

If you ask me how I knew, I saw you.

I had a bird’s-eye view of a bird’s-eye

view when I saw you.

I saw you not as you think,

simply just as you.

I saw you

And all of this augers well

even though its presaging pell-mell.

All of it augers well.

the bastard of it being, having to choose

Then you turned all Billy Sunday, shoutin'

Philadelphia for Christ and Christ for

Philadelphia,

as the sun groomed the plane with crepuscular rays.

When I saw you

And all of this augers well.

Even so, its presaging pell-mell.

And all of it augers well.

the bastard being, having to choose

between a flickering fuse and power

beyond what you use

Never mind us purple italians,

never mind that pool in the mountains

Victory came and went

on winged elephants.

I saw you.

And all of this augers well

even though, even so its

presaging pell-mell.

All of it augers well

this is the bastard

the bastard of it being: having to choose