Tragically Hip Highway Girl (Live) Lyrics

I'm going down to see my highway girl
She just came back from around the world
I'm gonna get me a gun, I'm gonna stand on
guard
In a little white booth in her front yard.

Throwing rocks at her window what could
she do
- I throw like a girl -
If you throw enough rocks one might break
through
Well she looked out her window when the
police came
To see a big tin man dancing in the rain.

Oh my little highway girl
Oh my little highway girl

She had a beautiful apartment
She had a beautiful apartment
Well actually, it was a lousy apartment
But she's got architectural digest magazine
And she's very handy with her hands
And she knows what she's doing
She likes to decorate her apartment in the Santa Fe tradition
I told her it was dated, but I see more of the world than she does
She got an apartment where the property was cheap, next to the freeway
She said "I save lotsa money but I lose lotsa sleep, in my apartment where the property's so cheap"
And we'd laugh, and we'd laugh,
Ah, we'd take pot shots at the passing cars, and we'd laugh
We were dumping the body and we'd laugh
We found a place that was dark and rotten
A place where the police helicopter would never spot it
I destroyed the map that we so carefully dotted
Every day we're dumping a body she and me
Every single day, and we'd laugh about it
That's when I knew that it was time we both kill ourselves together
Together we were nothing but a menace
Apart we were nothing but lonely
I read too much, I thought we should kill ourselves
She doesn't read a thing, she believed me
"Are you really the messiah?" Yes I am
She was younger than me too, she was younger than me
And I said to her, I said: ya know Pauline, no one stamps on a burning bag of s___ anymore, nobody.
"Are you really the Messiah?" Yes I am. Believe it.
So we opted to kill ourselves, as I said
But we had one rifle and one bullet
So I told her to put her head down close to the barrel
And put the barrel sort of into her mouth
And I'd be right behind her with my head right behind hers
And I said her life would end instantly, mine might have a few extra minutes of agony and suffering
Couldn't pull the trigger so we attached a string to it, around the lamp and to the doorknob
The first person to come into her cheap f___ing apartment would blow both our heads off
But we got to thinking, we changed our minds, ya know, I mean we got scared and kinda chickened out
And we'd laugh ya know, we kinda laughed about it
What were we thinking? Together we're not that bad, we're not that bad
We don't need to kill ourselves, we don't need to kill ourselves
And then the D-train rattled overhead, knocked the door ajar
And on the faulty lock, the door swung open... and killed her

That's my story and I'm stick'n to it

She said, Don't you think babe you push a
bit too fast
I said, Slowing down don't make it last
And a memory's never gonna set you free
Go out and see that world and bring it home
to me.

Oh my little highway girl
Oh my little highway girl
Oh my little highway girl
Oh my little highway girl