Lyrics The Tragically Hip

The Tragically Hip

The Bastard

If you ask me how I knew, I saw you

I had a bird's eye view of a bird's eye view, 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 it's presaging pell-mell

All of it augers well

This is the bastard (of it being having to choose)

We've got the bastard (of it being having to choose)

This is the bastard

Then you turned all Billy Sunday

Shouting, "Philadelphia for Christ and Christ for Philadelph-i-a"

As the sun groomed the plane with crepuscular rays, when I saw you

And all of this augers well

Even so it's presaging pell-mell

And all of it augers well

This is the bastard (of it being having to choose)

This is the bastard (of it being having to choose)

This is 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

Wictory came and went on winged elephants, I saw you

And all of this augers well

Even though, even so, it's presaging pell-mell

All of it augers well

This is the bastard (of it being having to choose)

This is the bastard (of it being having to choose)

This is the bastard (of it being having to choose)

(Of it being having to choose)

(Of it being having to choose)

This is the bastard (of it being having to choose)

This is the bastard

This is the bastard