A Beautiful Thing - The Tragically Hip

In the ulcerating silence perspective comes

The way it always does for it’s ransom

So randomly somebody calls

The phone rings and it brings Niagara Falls

At three o’clock in the morning

«You'd better be dying» and you were

So we talked about time and where it went

Unremarkable events

And how one day took two days and they got spent

How you’d continue, carefully, in degrees

Trying to do one true beautiful thing

And your beautiful thing

It’d be

A beautiful thing

To see

That beautiful thing

Continuing

«I don’t live there, I just commute»

Secretly cradling a joint and I might puke

A fumble with the keys under duress

The point is this is practise duress

At three o’clock in the morning

«You'd better be dying» and you were

So we talked about things and where they went

Big remarkable events

And how each day’s a new day and they get spent

How you’d continue, artfully, like the breeze

Trying to do one true beautiful thing

And your beautiful thing

It’d be

A beautiful thing

To see

That beautiful thing

Continuing

Your beautiful thing

Continuing

And your beautiful thing

Will be

A beautiful thing

To me

A beautiful thing

Continuing

Your beautiful thing

Continuing