Problem Bears Lyrics - Tragically Hip

Writing a song about Lake Memphremagog 

And tonight I don't believe 

There are words to spare and be a tip and a nod 

Admitting it's half the defeat 

Tonight the non-essential worker is hunting the problem bears 

One sounds cornered and one can go no further 

And it all sounds like it's happening upstairs 

Do you hear that? 

Like dry leaves a-straggling 

Or a guard dog's claws on cement 

Or an idea that's gettin' more determined 

To get where it's gettin' 

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This might be harder than keeping it simple 

Yeah, this can be simpler than keeping it real 

This might be harder than keeping it simple 

Yeah, this can be simpler than keeping it real 

Shakespeare, you're a drunken savage 

Well, you're a sober and green-eyed Voltaire 

It almost sounds funny like two tough-talking goalies really going at it upstairs 

This might be harder than keeping it simple 

Yeah, this can be simpler than keeping it real 

This might be harder than keeping it simple 

Yeah, this can be simpler than keeping it real 

Tonight the non-essential worker takes on the green-eyed Voltaire 

Who won't go further than sounding just like murder when everything is quiet upstairs 

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Now do you hear that? 

The song of Memphremagog 

The shush-shush of his gentle lament 

It's maybe a song that can't quite be determined till it gets where it's gettin