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Look Upon The Ivy
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I need only look upon the ivy, how it clings to brick and stone to climb and reach the heights it longs for, to conclude that I alone have dreamt the dreams that will push me onward, in rehearsals visualized in the chambers of my mind. What I was is not what I am, and what I am is not what I was!
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Wasted On The Young
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The Patrons sang Stan Rogers songs long into the evening at the top of their lungs.
The diehards kept going 'til only The Mary Ellen Carter had yet to be sung.
Then "Rise again," cried the bartender, and "Rise again," replied the girl at the end of the bar, and the band started playing everyone's favourite song.
A group of twenty somethings stood up on their table, hollering along,
and the bartender turned to me:
"Youth, my friend," she said, "is wasted on the young."
"Speak for yourself," I said. "Back in my twenties, you couldn't hold this man down:
After two years in Asia, then Northern Saskatchewan, then back to Asia again,
I had to keep climbing to the top of the world, and I walked the Bolivian plain;
and, you know, if I had a chance to relive my life I would do it exactly the same way again."
"Well," she said, "you're the exception, which only serves to prove the rule:
Youth, my friend, is wasted on the young."
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mushkat Halifax, Nova Scotia
Mushkat is William (Bill) Travis from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He sings his indie folk songs in a voice that's been compared to Paul Simon and Ben Lee, often with the support of Chris Brown (drums), Mark Merrimen (bass), and sometimes Theo MacIntosh (guitar, piano). He has shared stages with Erin Costelo, Al Tuck, Christina Martin, Bend The River, The Mahones, and many more. ... more
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