作词 : Tragically Hip 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-a-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 MC carried on with it And now that I've got you all strangely compelled I'm afraid Candy's not feeling well Close but that's not why I'm so hard done by