The Tragically Hip:Pigeon Camera

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This song is performed by The Tragically Hip and appears on the album Fully Completely (1992).

it was handsome at the auction
oh, but when we got it home
it grew up into
something we could no longer contain

where's our pigeon camera
by now he could be anywhere
and after all that training
and after all that training
was something we could no longer contain

it's boring (boring)
i'm embarrassed (embarrassed of it)
i don't endorse that (slammed in my face)
i didn't want this

this house it has it politics
over there that's my room
and that's my sister
and that's my sister
with something we could no longer contain

it's boring (boring)
i'm embarrassed (embarrassed of it)
i don't endorse that (slammed in my face)
i didn't want this (boring)
it's horrific (boring)
i'm embarrassed (embarrassed of it)
i didn't want that (slammed in my face)
i didn't want this

it's like we burned our boots
with no contingency plan..

[edit] Notes

Pigeon Camera developed out of a monologue Gord performed during the Hengelo show. The concert fell on road manager Dave Powell's birthday. Gord sang an impromptu song about Dave's childhood in Thunder Bay. Though none of the lyrics were retained, the themes of the song were spying and incest-- two unlikely themes which would return in this song.

During the chorus, Gord sings "I don't endorse that" while Paul sings "...slammed in my face". The layering and timing of the two lines combines them into "door slammed in my face".

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