Uploaded September 2020 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago

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The second 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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We’re at cross seas
yea you and me
it’s impractical to dream
in the wind from the west
and the current moving east

I’m as happy as
My least happy kid.
I’m not happy about it, nor humiliated about it
We are together on this

please be good to me
Yea save me from the useless nights

Sleeping in dreary places
I’m bored with being down
just listen, don’t guess – please – alright

What am I for? Hey now?
to be just understood
jumping shadow to shadow, never eye to eye
in my neighbourhood

Everybody needs it
Needs to be understood
Whether we’re jumping shadows
between the secret moon it’s trying
and it’s really, really, really, really good

Ah please be good to me
Yea please save me from the useless nights