Uploaded September 2020 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago

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The first song from Gord Downie's 'Away Is Mine.' Double album in electric and acoustic versions out October 16, 2020 on Arts & Crafts: gorddownie.lnk.to/awayismine

Away Is Mine is the final solo recording by the late Gord Downie, iconic frontman of The Tragically Hip. Presented as a double album with electric and acoustic versions, the 20-track collection highlights Gord's poetic mastery with vibrant yet haunting production that casts each song in a different otherworldly light. The last ten songs Gord ever sang into a mic hold fast to his unwavering artistic spirit, deft hand with words, and forever inscrutable sense of humor even as he locks eyes head-on with the Great Inevitability.

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Yer walking me to the door
of what was it again?
Oh The Hotel Worth?
Or to the Hotel Merit?

A hotel with meaning
But I just don’t understand

I just live and do
Congratulations to me or to you
I’m – I’m a man
re-receive achieve then lose

A hotel worth of meaning
I just don’t understand

you drink so you can talk
without thinking or thinking about
worrying about what you say
I don’t drink when I sing

I don’t drink
not when I sing
you can’t hear me
when I drink