Chords for Thrush Hermit 1997 MuchMusic Interview
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And Lattice in a 2x4, a 4x8, and Cat in [E] a hamburger sandwich, and Thresh [B] Hermit!
Nobody completes, and no one is essential [Ab] to give the right of way.
[E] So you got your third [Gb] album, Sweet [N] Homewrecker.
Homewrecker.
Are you guys into building things, like homes?
Have you ever had to build [E] stuff?
Have we built anything as a band?
Well, I remember [D] you had a very elaborate [Ab] fort in your backyard, [Abm] and [G] after we all grew up, [Gb] Rob's dad got to tear it down in the backyard, and we were [Eb] both very jealous.
We [C] were jealous, though.
The sledgehammer, but [E] we weren't involved.
It was too dangerous, maybe.
And your dad, like, [C] slashed, he took the saw out?
Well, he [D] sort of, more of a sledgehammer.
It was like, hey, the thing has to come down, and Ian and I were [Gb] sitting in my living room watching my dad.
He was [G] probably drunk or [Gb] something, but he was getting all sweaty, tearing it apart, and just like, [F] wow, it's pretty inspirational.
That's a great [E] image.
It ties in the way [Fm] we attack [Dbm] our guitars, [Db] and like, attack the songwriting.
[A]
[D] [A]
[E] So, going back some years, the two of you then have known each other since you were kids.
[E] Yeah, we've all known each other for a little while.
Yeah, [A] grade 7, I was entering junior high, so [Ab] that's when I met these guys.
Because Rob's mom and [Gb] my mom knew each other when they were our age, you know, like, they [G] grew up together, so it was really kind of weird.
[Eb] So, your mom's introduced [Em] you to, or you [Eb] just
Yeah, that's how I met him.
Rob didn't [Ab] like Joel at first.
Why?
I thought he was a nerd, and [Dm] he said Joel was wearing, not the, [N] I mean, clothes aren't important, kids, but Joel was wearing a Sears fake tie-dye T-shirt.
A Sears one?
And I thought it was so unbelievably gross, and I was like, kind of embarrassed.
Rob's mom was warning me about how into fashion all the kids in Halifax were, like, oh, yeah, they're really into brand names.
And I was like, oh, you mean, like, OP?
Because that's just, like, the only brand name I could think of.
And she was like, no, like, Ralph Lauren.
And I was like, oh, my God, what's [Ab] that?
Like, I had no idea, I'd never heard [E] of Ralph Lauren.
[D] And I was like, I'm so dead.
What a hick.
I'm [G] so dead.
A little boy [F] from Lundenburg.
[C]
Listening to your lyrics and [B] the songs, there's, like, certain words that come out, like, alone, [Db] sad.
[Gb] Like, you use the word alone a lot, and sad.
Are you guys, like, bummed out?
It's so much easier to write things when you're down, or not when you're totally in the dumps, but [G] just about pathetic scenarios.
[Em] It's a lot easier to write about that than, like, [C] you know, I'm so in love, or whatever, you know.
It's just difficult to, like, translate happy [C] emotions, I find, and it's, like, a challenge.
It's something that I would eventually maybe like to rise to the occasion.
[A]
[D] [Am]
[F] [C]
[D] If you think [Dm] about Bert Bacharach, [F] who's an inspiration to a lot of musicians [Ab] today, you know, he could [G] sing, you know,
[Gbm] What the world needs now is love, sweet love.
And [Gb] he really fully [D] meant it.
Oh, yeah.
You know?
The age of sincerity is coming [Eb] back.
You think so?
Oh, for sure.
The age of irony is dying out.
You just can't, [Ab] it can't [Gb] exist for so long.
It's got to come back, the age of sincerity.
I think we're pretty, I mean, [Eb] I think Ian's very [Ab] right, but I also think we're pretty sincere in our lyrics.
Like, we're not kidding [D] around.
Yeah, I don't think you're [Eb] kidding around, but it's like a [G] phenomenon in this day and age that people have got to guard themselves.
But we were talking today, we [Eb] were talking today about, like, Tears are not enough, we are the world type [Gb] things.
We were talking about this with the local [Fm] rabbits, [Bbm] and how if they made one now, [Ab] like, [Db] if freshmen and local rabbits were [G] asked to be in [F] Tears are not enough now,
it would be like, you know, [D] a totally legitimate [Gm] charitable cause, and we would [C] guarantee that we'd be in there screwing [F] it up, like, making it a big joke.
Like, we just couldn't do anything [D] that's sincere and that [Dm] nice, so we would have to [Gb] sabotage it somehow.
And it's like, what a shame, like, this is a drag that we're so, you know, self [A]-conscious and, you know, [F] insincere and ironic, but [A] it's fun.
[Ab] [A]
Do [Abm] you think you're like big whiners, you [Ab] guys?
Sometimes, yeah, maybe, a little [Am] bit.
You?
[Bm]
You know what's right, it means whiners now, but [E] listening to the music, yeah, probably [Ab] it keys in, you know, yeah.
What do you do?
It's like the blues.
I don't know, I guess most of these songs are pretty whiny, I guess.
Yeah, I guess so.
[Gb] It's sort of the struggle on our next record, I think, is to try to do something that's not just, you know, relation, not just love songs or something, like, do [G] something [Gb] that's a little more ambitious without [D] being pretentious, I think was the goal, but yeah.
Maybe instructional songs.
Yeah.
Like [Gb] how to, how to build.
That would be [D] pretty cool.
[A] Total advice to the kids, don't sign to a [Dm] major, no, no, no, no, no.
[G]
[Dm] [A]
How is it to sign to a major?
How [Db] are you guys feeling about that?
We're [Eb] holding [E] out our judgment as to whether, I think people, we have, there's a lot of good people who are very [C] supportive of our band at the [C] label, [Bm] but, you know, it's just like a very tough transition.
It's too [F] bad we don't have a video for this record yet that you could throw to right now.
Ian, [E] you've directed this video for the last album, Patriot, very nice aesthetic you got happening there.
[Gb] Sweet, yes, you know, I was very influenced by the Fovists of the early 30s and, no, but what can I say?
All right, Patriot, Thresh Hermit, [A] thank you very much guys for coming down.
All right, thank
Nobody completes, and no one is essential [Ab] to give the right of way.
[E] So you got your third [Gb] album, Sweet [N] Homewrecker.
Homewrecker.
Are you guys into building things, like homes?
Have you ever had to build [E] stuff?
Have we built anything as a band?
Well, I remember [D] you had a very elaborate [Ab] fort in your backyard, [Abm] and [G] after we all grew up, [Gb] Rob's dad got to tear it down in the backyard, and we were [Eb] both very jealous.
We [C] were jealous, though.
The sledgehammer, but [E] we weren't involved.
It was too dangerous, maybe.
And your dad, like, [C] slashed, he took the saw out?
Well, he [D] sort of, more of a sledgehammer.
It was like, hey, the thing has to come down, and Ian and I were [Gb] sitting in my living room watching my dad.
He was [G] probably drunk or [Gb] something, but he was getting all sweaty, tearing it apart, and just like, [F] wow, it's pretty inspirational.
That's a great [E] image.
It ties in the way [Fm] we attack [Dbm] our guitars, [Db] and like, attack the songwriting.
[A]
[D] [A]
[E] So, going back some years, the two of you then have known each other since you were kids.
[E] Yeah, we've all known each other for a little while.
Yeah, [A] grade 7, I was entering junior high, so [Ab] that's when I met these guys.
Because Rob's mom and [Gb] my mom knew each other when they were our age, you know, like, they [G] grew up together, so it was really kind of weird.
[Eb] So, your mom's introduced [Em] you to, or you [Eb] just
Yeah, that's how I met him.
Rob didn't [Ab] like Joel at first.
Why?
I thought he was a nerd, and [Dm] he said Joel was wearing, not the, [N] I mean, clothes aren't important, kids, but Joel was wearing a Sears fake tie-dye T-shirt.
A Sears one?
And I thought it was so unbelievably gross, and I was like, kind of embarrassed.
Rob's mom was warning me about how into fashion all the kids in Halifax were, like, oh, yeah, they're really into brand names.
And I was like, oh, you mean, like, OP?
Because that's just, like, the only brand name I could think of.
And she was like, no, like, Ralph Lauren.
And I was like, oh, my God, what's [Ab] that?
Like, I had no idea, I'd never heard [E] of Ralph Lauren.
[D] And I was like, I'm so dead.
What a hick.
I'm [G] so dead.
A little boy [F] from Lundenburg.
[C]
Listening to your lyrics and [B] the songs, there's, like, certain words that come out, like, alone, [Db] sad.
[Gb] Like, you use the word alone a lot, and sad.
Are you guys, like, bummed out?
It's so much easier to write things when you're down, or not when you're totally in the dumps, but [G] just about pathetic scenarios.
[Em] It's a lot easier to write about that than, like, [C] you know, I'm so in love, or whatever, you know.
It's just difficult to, like, translate happy [C] emotions, I find, and it's, like, a challenge.
It's something that I would eventually maybe like to rise to the occasion.
[A]
[D] [Am]
[F] [C]
[D] If you think [Dm] about Bert Bacharach, [F] who's an inspiration to a lot of musicians [Ab] today, you know, he could [G] sing, you know,
[Gbm] What the world needs now is love, sweet love.
And [Gb] he really fully [D] meant it.
Oh, yeah.
You know?
The age of sincerity is coming [Eb] back.
You think so?
Oh, for sure.
The age of irony is dying out.
You just can't, [Ab] it can't [Gb] exist for so long.
It's got to come back, the age of sincerity.
I think we're pretty, I mean, [Eb] I think Ian's very [Ab] right, but I also think we're pretty sincere in our lyrics.
Like, we're not kidding [D] around.
Yeah, I don't think you're [Eb] kidding around, but it's like a [G] phenomenon in this day and age that people have got to guard themselves.
But we were talking today, we [Eb] were talking today about, like, Tears are not enough, we are the world type [Gb] things.
We were talking about this with the local [Fm] rabbits, [Bbm] and how if they made one now, [Ab] like, [Db] if freshmen and local rabbits were [G] asked to be in [F] Tears are not enough now,
it would be like, you know, [D] a totally legitimate [Gm] charitable cause, and we would [C] guarantee that we'd be in there screwing [F] it up, like, making it a big joke.
Like, we just couldn't do anything [D] that's sincere and that [Dm] nice, so we would have to [Gb] sabotage it somehow.
And it's like, what a shame, like, this is a drag that we're so, you know, self [A]-conscious and, you know, [F] insincere and ironic, but [A] it's fun.
[Ab] [A]
Do [Abm] you think you're like big whiners, you [Ab] guys?
Sometimes, yeah, maybe, a little [Am] bit.
You?
[Bm]
You know what's right, it means whiners now, but [E] listening to the music, yeah, probably [Ab] it keys in, you know, yeah.
What do you do?
It's like the blues.
I don't know, I guess most of these songs are pretty whiny, I guess.
Yeah, I guess so.
[Gb] It's sort of the struggle on our next record, I think, is to try to do something that's not just, you know, relation, not just love songs or something, like, do [G] something [Gb] that's a little more ambitious without [D] being pretentious, I think was the goal, but yeah.
Maybe instructional songs.
Yeah.
Like [Gb] how to, how to build.
That would be [D] pretty cool.
[A] Total advice to the kids, don't sign to a [Dm] major, no, no, no, no, no.
[G]
[Dm] [A]
How is it to sign to a major?
How [Db] are you guys feeling about that?
We're [Eb] holding [E] out our judgment as to whether, I think people, we have, there's a lot of good people who are very [C] supportive of our band at the [C] label, [Bm] but, you know, it's just like a very tough transition.
It's too [F] bad we don't have a video for this record yet that you could throw to right now.
Ian, [E] you've directed this video for the last album, Patriot, very nice aesthetic you got happening there.
[Gb] Sweet, yes, you know, I was very influenced by the Fovists of the early 30s and, no, but what can I say?
All right, Patriot, Thresh Hermit, [A] thank you very much guys for coming down.
All right, thank
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And Lattice in a 2x4, a 4x8, and Cat in [E] a hamburger sandwich, and Thresh [B] Hermit!
Nobody completes, _ _ and no one is _ essential _ [Ab] _ to give the right of way.
[E] So you got your third [Gb] album, Sweet [N] Homewrecker.
_ Homewrecker.
Are you guys into building things, like homes?
Have you ever had to build [E] stuff?
Have we built anything as a band?
Well, I remember [D] you had a very elaborate _ [Ab] fort in your backyard, [Abm] and [G] after we all grew up, [Gb] Rob's dad got to tear it down in the backyard, and we were [Eb] both very jealous.
We [C] were jealous, though.
The sledgehammer, but [E] we weren't involved.
It was too dangerous, maybe.
And your dad, like, [C] slashed, he took the saw out?
Well, he [D] sort of, more of a sledgehammer.
It was like, hey, the thing has to come down, and Ian and I were [Gb] sitting in my living room watching my dad.
He was [G] probably drunk or [Gb] something, but he was getting all sweaty, tearing it apart, and just like, [F] wow, it's pretty inspirational.
That's a great [E] image.
It ties in the way [Fm] we attack [Dbm] our guitars, [Db] and like, attack the songwriting.
[A] _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ [E] So, going back some years, the two of you then have known each other since you were kids.
[E] _ Yeah, we've all known each other for a little while.
Yeah, [A] grade 7, I was entering junior high, so [Ab] that's when I met these guys.
Because Rob's mom and [Gb] my mom knew each other when they were our age, you know, like, they [G] grew up together, so it was really kind of weird.
[Eb] So, your mom's introduced [Em] you to, or you [Eb] just_
Yeah, that's how I met him.
Rob didn't [Ab] like Joel at first.
Why?
I thought he was a nerd, and [Dm] he said Joel was wearing, not the, [N] I mean, clothes aren't important, kids, but Joel was wearing a Sears fake tie-dye T-shirt.
A Sears one?
And I thought it was so unbelievably gross, and I was like, kind of embarrassed.
Rob's mom was warning me about how into fashion all the kids in Halifax were, like, oh, yeah, they're really into brand names.
And I was like, oh, you mean, like, OP?
Because that's just, like, the only brand name I could think of.
And she was like, no, like, Ralph Lauren.
And I was like, oh, my God, what's [Ab] that?
Like, I had no idea, I'd never heard [E] of Ralph Lauren.
[D] And I was like, I'm so dead.
What a hick.
I'm [G] so dead.
A little boy [F] from Lundenburg. _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Listening to your lyrics and [B] the songs, there's, like, certain words that come out, like, alone, [Db] _ _ sad.
[Gb] Like, you use the word alone a lot, and sad.
Are you guys, like, bummed out?
It's so much easier to write things when you're down, or not when you're totally in the dumps, but [G] just about pathetic scenarios.
[Em] It's a lot easier to write about that than, like, _ [C] you know, I'm so in love, or whatever, you know.
It's just difficult to, like, translate happy [C] emotions, I find, and it's, like, a challenge.
It's something that I would eventually maybe like to rise to the occasion.
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ [D] If you think [Dm] about Bert Bacharach, [F] who's an inspiration to a lot of musicians [Ab] today, you know, he could [G] sing, you know,
[Gbm] What the world needs now is love, sweet love.
And [Gb] he really fully [D] meant it.
Oh, yeah.
You know?
The age of sincerity is coming [Eb] back.
You think so?
Oh, for sure.
The age of irony is dying out.
You just can't, [Ab] it can't [Gb] exist for so long.
It's got to come back, the age of sincerity.
I think we're pretty, I mean, [Eb] I think Ian's very [Ab] right, but I also think we're pretty sincere in our lyrics.
Like, we're not kidding [D] around.
Yeah, I don't think you're [Eb] kidding around, but it's like a [G] phenomenon in this day and age that people have got to guard themselves.
But we were talking today, we [Eb] were talking today about, _ like, Tears are not enough, we are the world type [Gb] things.
We were talking about this with the local [Fm] rabbits, [Bbm] and how if they made one now, [Ab] like, [Db] if freshmen and local rabbits were [G] asked to be in [F] Tears are not enough now,
it would be like, you know, [D] a totally legitimate [Gm] charitable cause, and we would [C] guarantee that we'd be in there screwing [F] it up, like, making it a big joke.
Like, we just couldn't do anything [D] that's sincere and that [Dm] nice, so we would have to [Gb] sabotage it somehow.
And it's like, what a shame, like, this is a drag that we're so, you know, self [A]-conscious and, you know, [F] insincere and ironic, but [A] it's fun. _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ Do [Abm] you think you're like big whiners, you [Ab] guys?
Sometimes, yeah, maybe, a little [Am] bit.
You?
[Bm] _
You know what's right, it means whiners now, but [E] listening to the music, yeah, probably [Ab] it keys in, you know, yeah.
What do you do?
It's like the blues.
I don't know, I guess most of these songs are pretty whiny, I guess. _
Yeah, I guess so.
[Gb] It's sort of the struggle on our next record, I think, is to try to do something that's not just, you know, relation, not just love songs or something, like, do [G] something [Gb] that's a little more ambitious without [D] being pretentious, I think was the goal, but yeah.
_ Maybe instructional songs.
Yeah.
Like [Gb] how to, how to build.
That would be [D] pretty cool.
_ _ [A] Total advice to the kids, don't sign to a [Dm] major, no, no, no, no, no.
[G] _
_ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [A] _ _ _
How is it to sign to a major?
How [Db] are you guys feeling about that?
We're [Eb] holding [E] out our judgment as to whether, I think people, we have, there's a lot of good people who are very [C] supportive of our band at the [C] label, [Bm] but, _ you know, it's just like a very tough transition.
It's too [F] bad we don't have a video for this record yet that you could throw to right now.
Ian, [E] you've directed this video for the last album, Patriot, very nice aesthetic you got happening there.
[Gb] Sweet, yes, you know, I was very influenced by the Fovists of the early 30s and, no, but what can I say?
All right, Patriot, Thresh Hermit, [A] thank you very much guys for coming down.
All right, thank
Nobody completes, _ _ and no one is _ essential _ [Ab] _ to give the right of way.
[E] So you got your third [Gb] album, Sweet [N] Homewrecker.
_ Homewrecker.
Are you guys into building things, like homes?
Have you ever had to build [E] stuff?
Have we built anything as a band?
Well, I remember [D] you had a very elaborate _ [Ab] fort in your backyard, [Abm] and [G] after we all grew up, [Gb] Rob's dad got to tear it down in the backyard, and we were [Eb] both very jealous.
We [C] were jealous, though.
The sledgehammer, but [E] we weren't involved.
It was too dangerous, maybe.
And your dad, like, [C] slashed, he took the saw out?
Well, he [D] sort of, more of a sledgehammer.
It was like, hey, the thing has to come down, and Ian and I were [Gb] sitting in my living room watching my dad.
He was [G] probably drunk or [Gb] something, but he was getting all sweaty, tearing it apart, and just like, [F] wow, it's pretty inspirational.
That's a great [E] image.
It ties in the way [Fm] we attack [Dbm] our guitars, [Db] and like, attack the songwriting.
[A] _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ [E] So, going back some years, the two of you then have known each other since you were kids.
[E] _ Yeah, we've all known each other for a little while.
Yeah, [A] grade 7, I was entering junior high, so [Ab] that's when I met these guys.
Because Rob's mom and [Gb] my mom knew each other when they were our age, you know, like, they [G] grew up together, so it was really kind of weird.
[Eb] So, your mom's introduced [Em] you to, or you [Eb] just_
Yeah, that's how I met him.
Rob didn't [Ab] like Joel at first.
Why?
I thought he was a nerd, and [Dm] he said Joel was wearing, not the, [N] I mean, clothes aren't important, kids, but Joel was wearing a Sears fake tie-dye T-shirt.
A Sears one?
And I thought it was so unbelievably gross, and I was like, kind of embarrassed.
Rob's mom was warning me about how into fashion all the kids in Halifax were, like, oh, yeah, they're really into brand names.
And I was like, oh, you mean, like, OP?
Because that's just, like, the only brand name I could think of.
And she was like, no, like, Ralph Lauren.
And I was like, oh, my God, what's [Ab] that?
Like, I had no idea, I'd never heard [E] of Ralph Lauren.
[D] And I was like, I'm so dead.
What a hick.
I'm [G] so dead.
A little boy [F] from Lundenburg. _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Listening to your lyrics and [B] the songs, there's, like, certain words that come out, like, alone, [Db] _ _ sad.
[Gb] Like, you use the word alone a lot, and sad.
Are you guys, like, bummed out?
It's so much easier to write things when you're down, or not when you're totally in the dumps, but [G] just about pathetic scenarios.
[Em] It's a lot easier to write about that than, like, _ [C] you know, I'm so in love, or whatever, you know.
It's just difficult to, like, translate happy [C] emotions, I find, and it's, like, a challenge.
It's something that I would eventually maybe like to rise to the occasion.
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ [D] If you think [Dm] about Bert Bacharach, [F] who's an inspiration to a lot of musicians [Ab] today, you know, he could [G] sing, you know,
[Gbm] What the world needs now is love, sweet love.
And [Gb] he really fully [D] meant it.
Oh, yeah.
You know?
The age of sincerity is coming [Eb] back.
You think so?
Oh, for sure.
The age of irony is dying out.
You just can't, [Ab] it can't [Gb] exist for so long.
It's got to come back, the age of sincerity.
I think we're pretty, I mean, [Eb] I think Ian's very [Ab] right, but I also think we're pretty sincere in our lyrics.
Like, we're not kidding [D] around.
Yeah, I don't think you're [Eb] kidding around, but it's like a [G] phenomenon in this day and age that people have got to guard themselves.
But we were talking today, we [Eb] were talking today about, _ like, Tears are not enough, we are the world type [Gb] things.
We were talking about this with the local [Fm] rabbits, [Bbm] and how if they made one now, [Ab] like, [Db] if freshmen and local rabbits were [G] asked to be in [F] Tears are not enough now,
it would be like, you know, [D] a totally legitimate [Gm] charitable cause, and we would [C] guarantee that we'd be in there screwing [F] it up, like, making it a big joke.
Like, we just couldn't do anything [D] that's sincere and that [Dm] nice, so we would have to [Gb] sabotage it somehow.
And it's like, what a shame, like, this is a drag that we're so, you know, self [A]-conscious and, you know, [F] insincere and ironic, but [A] it's fun. _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ Do [Abm] you think you're like big whiners, you [Ab] guys?
Sometimes, yeah, maybe, a little [Am] bit.
You?
[Bm] _
You know what's right, it means whiners now, but [E] listening to the music, yeah, probably [Ab] it keys in, you know, yeah.
What do you do?
It's like the blues.
I don't know, I guess most of these songs are pretty whiny, I guess. _
Yeah, I guess so.
[Gb] It's sort of the struggle on our next record, I think, is to try to do something that's not just, you know, relation, not just love songs or something, like, do [G] something [Gb] that's a little more ambitious without [D] being pretentious, I think was the goal, but yeah.
_ Maybe instructional songs.
Yeah.
Like [Gb] how to, how to build.
That would be [D] pretty cool.
_ _ [A] Total advice to the kids, don't sign to a [Dm] major, no, no, no, no, no.
[G] _
_ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [A] _ _ _
How is it to sign to a major?
How [Db] are you guys feeling about that?
We're [Eb] holding [E] out our judgment as to whether, I think people, we have, there's a lot of good people who are very [C] supportive of our band at the [C] label, [Bm] but, _ you know, it's just like a very tough transition.
It's too [F] bad we don't have a video for this record yet that you could throw to right now.
Ian, [E] you've directed this video for the last album, Patriot, very nice aesthetic you got happening there.
[Gb] Sweet, yes, you know, I was very influenced by the Fovists of the early 30s and, no, but what can I say?
All right, Patriot, Thresh Hermit, [A] thank you very much guys for coming down.
All right, thank