Ontario nights
How they pass me by so slow
View from my window
Tells of a ghost town under snow
Down in the valley ablaze by the moon
I follow the bloodline through the past
Am I drifting through this life
Like a ship without a mast?
Perched like a Jay on the wire
Two lovers intertwined
Reckless desires always bleed into mind
In a truck stop diner
Drunk on that raison wine
Five hundred miles away
You lie sleepless in New York
But you and I remain
Bound like the pages of a book
There’s a magic in this old town
A silent guiding force
As I drive the final nail
Into the coffin of my remorse
Tom McGrath – Bass, Lap Steel
B.R. Mackie – Everything else
Music and Lyrics by Ben R. Mackie
Recorded and Mixed by Ben R. Mackie above Enid’s, Brooklyn, NY
Additional tracking at Laneway Studios, Melbourne, Australia
Mastered by Josh Bonati at Bonati Mastering, Brooklyn, NY
Cover artwork by Hilary Faye
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