Tragically hip the so hard done by lyrics

Interesting and sophisticated

refusing to be celebrated

it's a monumental big screen kiss

it's so deep it's meaningless

one day you'll just up and quit

and that'll be it

just then the stripper stopped in a coughing fit

she said sorry i can't go on with this



yeah that's awful close

but that's not why

i'm so hard done by



It was true cinema à clef

you should see it before there's nothing left

in an epic too small to be tragic

you'll have to wait a minute

cause it's an instamatic



yeah that's awful close

but that's not why

i'm so hard done by



Just then the room became more dimly lit

as the emcee carried on with it

and now that i got you all strangely compelled

i'm afraid that Candy's not feeling well



close, but that's not why

i'm so hard done by