comfy, cozy, curled up by my side, watching some old episodes we like.
humble in our semblance, our workings unconfined. is this to be abundant?
i know i feel it in the times that we’re kickin’ it together, not concerned by others’ ways.

and never getting tripped up by the ever-shrinking space between a place to mind our own and the time to meet halfway.

our fears they might be different, but the important thing i think, is that the ways that they affect us feel so wonderfully in sync.

if better days are camped across the creek - a blocked off passage and a dam upstream - we’ll just hike up both our pants, and dampen down our feet. a creek-bed’s just a hiccup, since we tried to swim the sea.

i’ll find i think about the years before we had the thought to rediscover all the threads that led to tie this handsome knot - and if we could do it different, would the line remain as taut?

i’ll never say that i was perfect, and i don’t think you could too, but lining up our timing was the best that we could do. if momentary lapses could collapse this at our feet, we’d have been crushed by all our troubles long before we’d ever meet. way back when all we did was try to figure out each other, and all we had to do was take some time to figure out ourselves.

episodes (demo)

With the exception of Episodes (an original song written by Pat Cederberg) all these songs are covers of Classic Rock tunes played almost exclusively by me and me alone - including all vocals.  As I progressed with my song selection I began asking friends to help me get the song as close to the original as possible so I recruited extremely talented guys like Kurt Jones (Gittarzan on YouTube) to play lead guitar, Sal Marino, Dave Giles & DJLCruze to play some bass lines, Robin Dalgleish and Rob Reed to play the required piano and of course, Canadian Guitarist of the Year for 5 years - Wendell Ferguson to play lead on Episodes.  I also got my daughter Meg and my wife Mona to sing on a couple of songs - where female voices were critical to the the final sound I was looking for.

(I Wonder) What Shes Doing Tonight

Draggin' The Line

Original song by Malory Torr.
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Artwork by Taylor Torr.


Lyrics:

21 years I'm in Berlin 
All my friends have taken off including him
No they don't exist, no they don't exist
Turns out a place is just a setting 
A backdrop to the company you're with

26 years I'm renting now 
Room mate seems alright 
But he has this funny smell about him
Not sure about Glyn 
And I've asked the landlord nice 
But he's, ignored me twice 

Oh but rules were made to disobey
Listen to your younger self 
Go out and play 

35 and I'm still alone 
Had a lot of kisses but haven't held on to one 
Held on to one 
Tell me I'm a cynic but love we aren't done 

44 I've moved to Spain 
Thought I'd focus on my Spanish 
Get it back again 
Before I get too old 
So I've been told 
Plus the weather's so much hotter 
And the people never bother you 

Oh but rules were made to disobey
Listen to your younger self 
Go out and play 

59 had a whale of a time 
Booked myself a cruise 
Across pacific blue oceans 
With mixed emotions
But I found me a man and we call him captain Sam 

At 72 I lost my best friend 
Puts things in perspective 
And now I see the end is coming soon 
For me too, take no day for granted 
Now I know it's true 

Oh but rules were made to disobey
Listen to your younger self 
Go out and play 

88 I'm being eaten alive 
Brother sister at my side 
All they do is pray but I know it's time know it's right 
What has it all been for 
Is the last question on my mind



© Malory Torr // Metropolis Music Publishing

21 Years

malory's fantastic original track: https://soundcloud.com/malory-torr/21-years

21 Years (malory torr cover)

Classic Rock covers with just me and an acoustic guitar(s), old software and Sony Vegas.  I try to be as faithful to the original song as I can but sometimes that just ain't possible... I've recently started adding friends that have talents that I don't possess - like lead guitar work, drumming and piano playing for starters...

Draggin' The Line

Mike Cederberg

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