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One More Fire
03:37
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Get up go again I want a job
Something encompassing more than a lot
Back to the grind I want it all on my watch
We’re gonna be busy as bees in the summer of love
Hiding inside was lo-grade fun
Compared the nights when I was out on the run
Falling my way & following the sun
I want to be happy
I want to be
Light me one more fire
Sing a song of another time
Tomorrow’s on my mind
What’s ahead of me is better than what’s behind
Some come down to earth but don’t get stuck
I’ve had my fill & I know how it’s done
The struggle is real & can get real long
So let’s make a plan to abandon the bad, and
Up to the place with the craziest view
I want to remember what brought me to you
One more fire talking only in truths
I want to be happy
I want to be
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Get Low
03:15
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We can take the summer off
Suss out everything we lost
Come back as an astronaut
That can’t get off the ground
We can fly to paradise
Buy up all the movie rights
Talk about our high life
Make our momma proud
In from the rain
To remember our names
What did you say?
You are tired from running slow
Sometimes you’re gonna get low
We can turn the car around
Roll back into town
Local bullies didn’t get us down
Didn’t hear ‘em anyway
We can procrastinate
Let the years betray
Give it all to the kids one day
Wasn’t it all great?
Come up for air from the ocean floor
I like it better down there than I did before
We don’t know which way we’re going to go
Sometimes we’re just fine
Sometimes you get low
You can show the world you’re fine
And everything you’ve bought online
The most toys at the finish line
Wins a mountain of debt
So play me that song of mine
From back in ’99
When I was always in 4/4 time
From the top ’til the end
So we’re raising a toast to the party & the pain
Cause you’re gonna get ‘em both everyday
We don’t know which way we’re going to go
Sometimes we’re just fine
Sometimes you get low
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Feed Your Mind
03:18
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One day I’m gonna get it right
Remember to live before they turn out the light
Swim out past the dock
Drive until I’m lost
One day I’m gonna read the news
Everybody got along for an hour or two
With just a little face to face
This could be a better place
For us all
Somebody wise with the right set of eyes they told me
Take your time & feed your mind with light
Sometimes it’s an empty cup
Cold as the pole up north & tough
But the bottom doesn’t last
When I’m going somewhere fast
Colour outside the lines & step outside the old design
There’s nothing out there that really terrifies me
As I finally take my place
I’m gonna take more than enough space
One day I’m gonna get it right
Remember to live before they turn out the light
Do these things I write about
Believe these words that come outta my mouth
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Driveway
03:31
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Good night in Charlottetown good way to close my eyes
I’m leaving you a message by telepathy tonight
It’s the Atlantic-sized distance & the way we say goodbye
It’s the last hotel on earth right here in PEI
What are we doing
10 more days until you
When the sun comes reaching out on Tuesday
I’m in your driveway
Looking up at you
A stretch in prairie towns I’ve never heard the names
November in the clouds a certainty of rain
It’s the sky meeting the ground for an evening over grain
It’s the way I’m counting down only to count it up again
I don’t wanna live by phone
I’ll do anything you know
You should see
Toronto glow
Good morning from Kelowna good day to be a lake
One more set of stories from a paradise on-stage
It’s the business we’ve chosen it’s a rumble in my mind
It’s a song that’s in my head every day that I’m alive
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Somewhere over the Pacific on the way to catch a break
A couple of Canadian kids on the run in LA
doing what you do in the Rainbow Room looking to lose our minds
Riding on songs that we thought were strong enough to save our lives
We were young we were lost sometimes
It didn’t matter what we did where we’d go or what we’d find
Maybe break even maybe say we’d leave it behind
But a song can change your mind
always.
In the corner of a crowded room two steps from Jackson Browne
Try to lean in closer to hear what he talked about
Maybe I’ll call my grandma from the lobby of this place
Even if I feel invisible I’ll tell her I’m doing great
Cause when I’m gone & I’m lost sometimes
It doesn’t matter what I do where I go or what I find
Maybe when I’m bleeding the blues it’s by design
But a song can change your mind
A song can stop time
Somewhere back behind me is a story I’ll tell someday
When I’m too old to hit the road and before I fall away
A dream that a kid like me once had writing in his room
That his song might be played loud sometime in front of a crowd like you
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Sometimes Life's Amazing
03:19
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Rolling around this town
This predictable old grid
Listening to Lucinda in the middle of a fit
temper, temper I gotta remember to keep that cooler head
‘cause sometimes life’s amazing or it’s a maze that I’m lost in
Tried to do it right
But I held the stick too tight
You wouldn’t believe the things that I’ve seen so far
Now all of the days & ways that I’ve changed seems to hit me once again
That sometimes life’s amazing or it’s a maze that I’m lost in
I don’t wanna complain but I might have a favour
Could you help me once again
I don’t wanna remain
Just a part of the rain
That’s falling on your head
Rolling around this town still searching for the truth
Taking the pain I’m gonna put it away for good
It’s ok to maybe take the day & just skip right ’til the end
‘cause sometimes life’s amazing or it’s a maze that I’m lost in
Sometimes life’s amazing
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Lost & Found
03:20
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I know I gotta get out of my own way
Sometimes I don’t know how
You go, figure me out & then say
Honey let me break it down
It’s in the way that you do it all
A little amnesia & alcohol
I know the reason we break down
Then I find you again in the lost & found
Good take it’s an observation I get
& maybe I see your point
I am richer than I think
Sometimes I forget in all the noise
When I get insane for a day or two
It ain’t gonna last cause I got you
All this shit’s a phase that I’m going through & I’m almost out the other side
I know I gotta get out of my own way
& Maybe I’m learning how
There’s time to make a change for better
I think I’m ready now
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Good or Bad
03:47
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You are what you settle for
You spun a wheel & landed on me
You’v got the right to re-examine your life &
Honey I know ‘cause I’ve seen what you see
Better than yesterday
I could not find my way
I lost the keys to everything
As time moves on I find I’m looking, searching
For what I don’t think I can truly explain
So
The trouble I feel will go when I remember everything that I know
Good or bad it won’t last long
I know the frame of mind ain’t gonna last all time
For what it’s worth I’ve got a roster of flaws
But it don’t matter none I’m an army of one
I can take the hits all night long
No
I’m good just gotta get to the show
And feel something that’s good for my soul
Good or bad it won’t last long
I know I make a mess of everything
I get lost do it wrong in every way
And somewhere along the line
I forgot to have a good time
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Nonversation
03:01
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Downtown I’ve got a couple of friends
Real big on opinions
They’re getting down with division
They say ‘we’ll be alright but not tonight man’
The longer my life the harder it is to find the time to fake it
If I don’t understand my fellow woman & man I might be hearing a nonversation
What is living if it’s not on film?
Who am I and is this real?
Making noise in the big abyss
Stubbing my toes on every crisis
Rock & roll, country or folk?
Better turn it up on all the stations
And if you don’t understand your fellow woman & man you might be hearing a nonversation
forget the lesson that you learned in the past
You’ll get critical & cynical fast
And if it ain’t nice don’t say it
I’ve gotta talk from the heart now
Lend a hand when my brother is down
let go of wheel
don’t need to win a fight that I can’t feel
Lennon was right imagine the life when you’re not looking for a hill to die on
& If you don’t understand your fellow woman & man you might be hearing a nonversation
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A Little More Left To Go
03:51
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My heart is about to explode
Caught by the weekend undertow
elephant off my chest
getting outside my head
I don’t know why I did it
I just did
Sometimes I feel too much
I don’t know why or where it comes from
Give me the best of before
Because I’m leaving the rest in a mess on the floor
I don’t know why I tried it
Now I want more
I don’t wanna be on a losing streak
Looking at a life I didn’t live completely
Oh oh oh I got a little more left to go
Oh oh oh I got a little more left
A little more left to go
Is there room at the bar for a man like me
And the ego and reputation that precedes
Sour is humble pie
And the sun is in my eyes
I don’t know for how long
But today I’m fine
What kind of world is this (not what they sold me)
What is the meaning of it (I don’t know)
Is there time to be weird
Or to make a mistake
To paint by the numbers & to be okay
Under a spell I believe
It’s coming up roses instead of the weeds
One day at a time
A little more left for me
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Ryan McMahon Ladysmith, British Columbia
Ryan McMahon has performed for over 20+ years as a Canadian songwriter and founding member of Lion Bear
Fox.
Veteran Canadian broadcaster Terry David Mulligan may have said it best: the complete package. Singer Songwriter. Performer. Troublemaker. Passionate human being. For me… priceless!!”
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