Messin’ Around
(C. Ross/M. Johnson)
Take a walk down any street
Take a look at the people you meet
Hurried in their world rushing by
Well hey, they don’t really see, that there is a
Time to take things slow
There’s a time to just get down
There’s a time… for just messing around
Where ya goin
Take a look at the people you meet
Hurried in their world rushing by
Well hey, they don’t really see, that there is a
Time to take things slow
There’s a time to just get down
There’s a time… for just messing around
Time to take things slow
There’s a time to just get down
There’s a time… for just messing around
Everybody’s moving fast
Nothing here is ever gonna last
Things you try to hold and touch
Quickly moove in to the past
Time to take things slow
There’s a time to just get down
There’s a time… for just messing around
Time to take things slow
There’s a time to just get down
There’s a time… for just messing around
Mark Mclean: Drums And
Cymbals, Cowbell
Mike Downes: Bass
Andrew Craig: Fender Rhodes
Craig Ross: Guitar
Horn Arrangement: Steven
Mackinnon
Background Vocals: Micah Barnes,
Billy Newton Davis And
Andrew Craig
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If You Know Love
(S. Mackinnon/M. Johnson)
If you know love, like I know love
The sun don’t rise the same
When a heart sings, like a moonbeam
It shines on everything
If I told you, I was so sure
I woke up and Love whispered your name
Baby believe it, I could not lie, if I tried
If you know love, like I know love
The birds don’t sound the same
With your sweet smile going on for miles
It warms up everything
If ya told me, you were so sure
You found out that love had come to town
Don’t second guess it, if you know love
Cotton candy and summer nights
String of pearls and city lights
I would throw them all away for love
Al Cross: Drums
Andrew Craig: Piano
Mike Downes: Bass
Rob Piltch: Guitar
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Let’s Waste Some Time
(M. Jordan/S. Mackinnon)
Once upon a time my heart was still
I would walk these streets and end up nowhere
Once upon a dream you were my thrill
I could never think of love without you
My life was so complicated
Playing cool’s so overrated
All we got to do is spend some time
We could make a quiet exit
Slip away in a minute
We’ll forget what was maybe just because
Come on baby lets waste some time
Here beneath the moon and starry sky
My hearts beating for you like a samba
Let the music play my radio
We could rescue love with just one kiss oh…
All the things we could uncover
One thing could lead to another
Anybody here could plainly see
We could make a quiet exit
Slip away in a minute
We’ll forget what was maybe just because
Come on baby lets waste some time
Mark Mclean: Drums and Cymbals,
Shakers, Tambourine
Mike Downes: Bass
Andrew Craig: Piano
Rob Piltch: Guitar
Vern Dorge: Bass Clarinet and Alto Flute
Bruce Cassidy: Trumpet and Flugelhorn
Colleen Allen: Flute, Clarinet And
Tenor Sax
Horns Arranged By Steven Mackinnon
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Rain
(S. Mackinnon/M. Johnson)
I’m going ‘round the bend like it’ll never end, here I go again
I’m going round and around; you know I’m losing ground
Just keeping on and on
There’s a light up ahead, it’s burning bright in my head
Time moves fast once you leave your bed
(Like a streetlight on an empty road)
You know I can’t see the shine in the silver lining no more
It seems we aint got the time to make the rhythm rhyme
Just keeping on and on
Cause I got something here you’ll never know you need
No more tears are coming down from me
Cause that was just the rain, falling
Big old drops hitting the ground yeah
And everything has changed – oh darling
Goodbye Montréal, I’ll miss you after all – yeah
You know people come and people go
And things change
You might like it today and then it all goes away
It’s all been rearranged
So when you find yourself finally free
To surrender to me
You should know it just can’t be
Cause that was just the rain, falling
Big old drops hitting the ground
And everything has changed – oh darling
So good bye Montréal, I’ll miss you after all
Funny how we don’t see it come
When suddenly everything is done
-and all you can do, is listen to the rain
Mark Mclean: Drums And
Cymbals, Shakers
Mike Downes: Bass
Andrew Craig: Fender Rhodes
And Hammond B-3
Steven Mackinnon: Piano
Rob Piltch: Guitar
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Sunday
(C. Ross/M. Johnson)
On this sunny Sunday afternoon
Just a lazy wasted day in June
Let the world slip away
On this almost perfect afternoon
Can’t we stay in bed all day?
Just this one day
This golden Sunday with you
Watching clouds drift
Gently by all day
Wondering if you’ll just
Come down and play
Let the world slip away
On this almost perfect afternoon
Can’t we stay in bed all day?
Just this one day
This golden Sunday with you
Can’t it be easy
Just to be true
Just like a photograph of you
Fades in time, don’t let it fade from view
Cause i know that my love
Can easily buy
Happy days filled with golden times
Even on a rainy day
Feel the kiss of afternoon’s bright sun
Feel yourself completely come undone
Let the world slip away
On this almost perfect afternoon
Can’t we stay in bed all day
Just this one day, this golden Sunday with you (x3)
Feel yourself completely come undone
Mark Mclean: Drums And
Cymbals, Shakers
Mike Downes: Bass
Andrew Craig: Fender Rhodes
And Triangle
Colleen Allen: Flute
Craig Ross: Guitar and Arp Solina
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Northern Star
(S. Mackinnon/M. Johnson)
Little man ,Where’d you go?
What’d you do? In a flash
Fingerprints, All that’s left
On your way, Key in hand
Go set the world on fire with your big ideas
Say it good and loud for them all to hear
And Lord have mercy on those virgin ears
And don’t you forget this
With every bridge you burn
With every lesson you unlearn
You can always find your way back home
And when it’s all confused
You’re overwhelmed and underused
Set your compass to the northern star
And find your way back home
Little girl, All grown up
So you think, In a whirl
Faded pink, All that’s left
On your way, Swim or sink
Go set the world on fire with your courage and grace
Find your own way to your special place
And lord show some mercy on those who get in your way
And don’t you forget this
CHORUS
Through the crack in the concrete
Through the grit in your eye
Through the dirt on the window
Try to find your light in the sky
In the dead of morning
In the still of night
The place that you come from
Is always in sight
CHORUS
BRIDGE
Mark Mclean: Drums and Cymbals Recorded
January 2001 at Manta Sound, Toronto
Mike Downes: Bass
Andrew Craig: Piano and Horner Clarinet V6
Doug Riley: Hammond B-3
Vern Dorge: Tenor Sax
Bruce Cassidy: Trumpet
Colleen Allen: Alto Sax
Horn Arrangement: Colleen Allen
Background Vocals: Micah Barnes, Billy
Newton Davis and Andrew Craig
Horn Arrangement by Colleen Allen
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Streets of Philadelphia
(Bruce Springsteen
/Arrangement
By Steven Mackinnon)
I was bruised and battered
and I couldn't tell what I felt
I was unrecognizable to myself
Saw my reflection in a window
I didn't know my own face
Oh brother are you gonna leave me
Wasting away
On the streets of Philadelphia
I walked the avenue
till my legs felt like stone
I heard the voices of friends
vanished and gone
At night I could hear the
Blood in my veins
Just as black and whispering as the rain
On the streets of Philadelphia
Ain't no angel gonna greet me
It's just you and I my friend
And my clothes don't fit me no more
I walked a thousand miles
Just to slip this skin
The night has fallen, I’m lyin' awake
I can feel myself fading away
So receive me brother with your faithless kiss
Or will we leave each other alone like this
On the streets of Philadelphia
Mark Mclean: Drums And
Cymbals, Tea Towels,
Tambourine
Mike Downes: Bass
Andrew Craig: Hammond B-3
Steven Mackinnon: Piano
Rob Piltch: Guitar
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But Not For Me
(George & Ira Gershwin)
They’re writing songs of love
But not for me
A lucky star’s above
But not for me
With love to lead the way
I’ve found more clouds of gray
Than any Russian play
Could guarantee
I was a fool to fall
And get that way
Hi ho! alas!
And also, lackaday!
Although I can’t dismiss
The memory of her kiss
I guess
She’s not for me
It all began so well
But what an end
This is the time
A fellow needs a friend
When every happy plot
Ends with a the marriage knot
And there’s
No knot for me
Mark Mclean: Drums And
Cymbals
Mike Downes: Bass
Andrew Craig: Piano
Guido Basso: Flugelhorn
Arrangement by Mike Downes
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Sticks and Stones
(M. Downes/M. Johnson)
Sticks and stones - Words will never break my heart
Sticks and stones - Baby we just gotta part
Sticks and stones - How we gonna work it?
You’ve got sticks and I’ve got stones.
Sometimes it’s hard to see
Through all the trees, the birds and bees
Yeah all those things
It can be a little grey, in your world some days
Wanna see the sun break through again
Well let me spell it out
The times they’ve changed
Don’t stay the same, it’s what its all about
So you take a few words
To twist then shout
Free at last, of this there is no doubt
Mark Mclean: Drums and Cymbals
Mike Downes: Bass
Andrew Craig: Piano
Doug Riley: Hammond B-3
Background Vocals: Guido
Basso/Mark Mclean/Mike
Downes/Steven Mackinnon And
Terence Queeley
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Tristes Souvenirs
(M. Downes/M. Johnson)
The rain is pouring outside
I gaze through this glass
Drowning in tears
All of our fears now realized
Is it too late to change?
Things that are done
All of these years
Looking in mirrors
Oublions ces tristes souvenirs
Oublions ces tristes souvenirs
Let's try to forget the mistakes
We've made throughout the years
Oublions ces tristes souvenirs
And start again free and clear
The flower’s bending right down
Down from the rain
Like my sad heart
Beating in vain, falling apart
Cries once when we laughed
Now things we've said
Cant turn it back, can't turn it 'round
Oublions ces tristes souvenirs
Oublions ces tristes souvenirs
Let's try to forget the mistakes
We've made through out the years
Oublions ces tristes souvenirs
And start again..start again..
start again, free and clear.
Mark Mclean: Drums and Cymbals
Mike Downes: Bass
Andrew Craig: Piano
Colleen Allen: Clarinet
Arnaud Méthivier: Accordion
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Tonight
(Steven Mackinnon)
I take my time
When things are weighin’ on my mind
I’m gonna let the string unwind
Tonight
Watch your step
‘Cause baby it aint over yet
You’re gonna wanna call that bet
Tonight
Whenever
We’re together
We dance like fireflies
Or maybe more like moth to flame
And I wonder
Are you under
The spell that’s got me here
You are vinegar, I am oil
You’re my tin and I’m your foil
Just a sigh
You didn’t even have to try
And no one else can make me high
Tonight
Whenever
We’re together
I don’t hear symphonies
More like Mingus in the park
You’re waitin’
I’m statin’ the obvious refrain
This could be my last hurrah
They way you use that je ne sais quoi
So divine
I’m takin’ all my own sweet time
And everything is oh so fine tonight
Everything is just so fine tonight
Baby gonna make you mine tonight
Mark Mclean: Drums and Cymbals
Mike Downes: Bass
Doug Riley: Piano
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Tangerine
(Prince) Arrangement by M. Mclean
Some days I feel tangerine
Some days I feel blue
Some days I just wanna black out
everything I felt 4 U
Even though I take your picture
everywhere I go
I use it for a coaster,
and drink the overflow
Some days
I make a lot of money
and give it all away
2 take my mind off the tangerine colour
of your negligee (silk PJs)
Beggars can’t be choosy,
if they don’t know how 2 serve
U got a different phone number
and a lot of nerve
Some days I feel tangerine
Some days I miss you 2
Mark Mclean: Drums, Tea Towels
and Tambourine
Mike Downes: Bass
Andrew Craig: Triangle
Colleen Allen: Flute
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