I wrote this a few winter's ago.  Just imagine looking up at the sky while the snow rains down all around.  Each flake is a unique crystal lattice inevitably falling to its demise.

Snow from my window

Collide

We've been working on some recordings and here is the first of them.  Lots of changes to version we used to play live.  

Spirits

I took a trip across Canada by train. It is something I highly recommend to any traveler. It takes you on an unique trip across our massive Country. The biggest portion of this journey was through my own province of Ontario. It was late at night and I was staring outside my window. I was about 18 hours into my trip. I just left my family and friends for a good 2 years and was excited on not knowing what my future has in store for me. I kinda like not knowing what's next and figuring it out as it happens. 
I remember at one point just looking outside into the night and seeing a beautiful lake. The water looked like a huge mirror reflecting the sky above. Right beside it was a little cottage where someone lived. You cannot reach this cabin by car and there was no town close by. The train made a special stop for someone who was actually getting off at this cabin. I was thinking, 'They must live such a peaceful life being surrounded by beauty and wonder'. I wrote this beat shortly after still having that cabin in Northern Ontario on my mind and the people that live in it.

I hope you enjoy my song!

Ontario

You say you’ll follow
Where ever I go
But I know something
So heavy it will swallow…
You

You hold my hands too
Tightly and let go
But have we mistaken
This true love have we been faking
Have you?

The years past behind us
Remind me I can’t trust
In you.

This could be so good
And this could be so good

You say you’ll follow
Where ever I go
But I know something
So heavy it will swallow...

02 Wherever I Go

The debut EP from Marcus and the Mountain.

03 Zoe

I sit here hanging my head I’m thinking
Is there a reason for us to pretend
And drink from a pool of lies that begin 
To burn up through our lives?

Walking backward to confuse emotions,
So I could see life for what it really was
As I walk ahead will you still follow behind?

It’s not working for me  
But it’s working for you
From the floor of the sea
There’s no light shining through

Sick and tired of repetition
Spent a life trying to fit in
You know exactly what I’m saying 
How can you look so damn surprised?
Go on keep your life’s obsessions
Fight for all the things that don’t matter
But ask yourself do I feel alive?

Cause it’s not working for me  
There’s no light shining through

It’s not working for me 
But it’s working for you?
From the floor of the sea
There’s never any light shining through 



04 Floor Of the Sea

I don't even think about you
And no one in this place reminds me of 
What you remind me of
There are so many things 
That I want to undo
I can't even think about you

I don't know it words can paint the truth
When life keeps going on I keep coming back
To lying on top of the world 
With your ear to my heart and we dream about
A vision of us we both think will do

I wipe that smile clean away
As you grow cold...

I know we both think about
This rainy day spent inside, oh, I think about
Our lips never touch and I think about 
The truth

The gaze in our eyes show we're wearing now
Honey we’re wearing out
And if it isn't just love baby turn around
Turn around, turn around
Look into me and feel me out
We share this one thing baby don't give up now
I don't even think about you

05 The Truth

One heart, cries out
One love, rise up

Shame of man spilling out from my mouth
You walked away
And you let it die

Dreamless awake and dreamless ashamed
Disposable thoughts bought and sold
For nothing in this devalued wasteland

One heart, cries out
One love, rise up

All I could feel was your voice in my ear
We carried the tune
Where it tried to lift away

But it wouldn’t have mattered at all as the song 
Brought back a part of us that was gone
Slipped out in the night but we knew all along
She came flooding back through my flesh into yours
Calming our war

One heart, cries out
One love, rise up


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AlanWong