Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

x6

Verse 1

Took a trip on a bus that didn't know

Met a girl sellin' drinks at the disco

Said truth comes back when you let it go

Seems complicated ‘cause it's really so simple

Walkin' down Yonge Street on a Friday

Can't follow them, gotta do it my way

No fast lane, still on the highway

Movin' in and out, no doubt there's a brighter way

Chorus

(do this 2x)

 No time to get down cause I'm moving up

 No time to get down cause I'm moving up

 No time to get down cause I'm moving up

 Aaaahhhhh, check out the crabs in the bucket

Verse 2

 It's like flies on the windscreen, writing on walls

Square biz clones claim they're havin’ a ball

Foolin' themselves just before last call

 Tic--tic--toc, tic--tic--toc

 Clock strikes twelve, clock strikes one

 Smoking gun put these fools on the run

 I know it's not that simple

 I know it's not that hard where to go

(repeat Chorus)

Verse 3

 It's a conniption, fit from the microphone flit

 I take it higher like a bird on a wire, retire the fire

 I never cause I'm just moving on up

 Choosin' to touch the unseen, craving the clutch

The most inevitable legible pyromania

 Slayin’ the devil, and sendin’ him back to Transylvania

 Strangely enough, I evolved that side of the ghetto

 But my heavy metal will settle the puppets like Gepetto

Damn if mirrors were created by sand

 Then I'm looking in the water for reflections of man

 Understand the minds above time when it's empty

Emcee, Tragically Hip “Ahead by a Century”

(repeat Chorus)