The Tragically Hip – Fly (Guitar)

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Seventy days to cross the ocean

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Seventy nights where no one’s gonna hear me fall

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Freddie Mercury, “I’ve sometimes wished

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I’d never been born at all”

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I remain unphotographed yea

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I don’t exaggerate my intelligence

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I might turn a broom into a tree

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But I’ll never be one of them

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I fly,         cause there’s no why in getting beaten up by

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a guy       who cries before he fights

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I don’t want em to see me like this

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The way they like to kick people when their down

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You said, ‘please stop worrying bout this

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They stop kicking once you’re down’

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There’s Mistaken Point, Newfoundland

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There’s Moonbeam, Ontari-ari-o

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There are places I’ve never been

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and always wanted to go

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I fly,          cause woe betide a guy who just lives to fight

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Fly,           love is to try and die trying

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Fly, yea, that’s right

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Fly, yea, that’s right

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Try, love is to try and die trying

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Coastline rising out of the ocean

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Coastline rises like a pair of glowing thighs

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Theres something down deep inside me says,

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‘Where ya been all my life.’ 

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Fly, turn your back, get your face in the sky

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Fly, love is to try and die trying

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Try, left and right, across your mind

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Try, love is to try and die trying