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Ian Fisher & The Past

by Ian Fisher & The Past

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1.
The Way To Go: I’ve been dreaming about a different life that fills my days more than my nights And I’ve been cooking up a magic spell that makes a man rhyme words like heaven With words like hell I’ve been thinking about you a lot it makes me aware of what I’ve got to lose And what I’m not ready to be Chorus - Take me for a ride like I’ve been taking you Challenge me to love you Make me change my mind about What I’d planned to do Push yourself away from me So I can reach out and grab you I’ve been dreaming in my head while I’ve been sleeping in your bed If you could see those dreams I know you’d rhyme words like stay With words like go I’ve been stepping on your feet while you’ve been following me Down empty streets that I do not know I do not know the way to go I do not know the way to go I do not know the way to go I don’t know the way to go so - Chorus -
2.
Hail Mary 03:30
Hail Mary full of grace how I long to be with you, but I don't know how to be Holy Mary mother of noone how I long to be someone leave me be Hail Mary I'm chained to you waiting on you, praying on you Holy Mary become my lover lets forget the others and I'll marry you Another virgin dream Based on everything Except reality So come on let us see If I can love anybody Hail Mary now that I've won you now that I don't want you leave me be Holy Eyes holy lips only lies I gave for this
3.
What a memory that passed Which of those promises lasted Longer than the wicks in the wax In glasses of plastic What a dream it's become I was young now I'm numb To the feel past my fingers On chords we were playing That lighter with James Dean on the plate It's probably empty now The words that held us in place It's probably empty now The way the blood rushed to your face It's probably empty now And I'm wondering how I just let it all empty out How I long for that youth When I longed for you Mixed naivety with truth And innocence with darkness Then one day it changed I just pushed you away Left you speak less and alone Slowly forgot you All those promises we made They are empty now That bed where we laid It's empty now Thinking about how it changed Makes me feel empty I'm wondering how I just let it all empty out
4.
A Pause 03:40
There was a pause Then I spit them out Some stranger's teeth That had grown in my mouth And could I call it truth Of was it just doubt Was it sweet or sour? I can't figure it out Though my feet did run Parts of me held on And I don't know why No I, don't know why There was a page In a book I found Lying on its face I read it too myself There were words That didn't make much sense All depending on Chapters I had skipped Though I was half way done I still read on And I don't know why No I, don't know why Reading backwards Looking for questions to my answers There were marks You put in your own arm Fresh red prints of teeth Where you hid my harm

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Official Music Video for "The Way To Go":
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IAN FISHER - FULL MUSIC BIOGRAPHY:
Raised on the river, living on the road... With many miles in his memory, and many more in sight, Ian Fisher has become the archetypal ramblin' songster he learned about from his father's record player. Round and round and round he goes - where he stops...

Ian Fisher was raised in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, a town of 4,000 honest folks between Highway 61 and the Mississippi River. He remembers spending days on his grandfather's farm and nights at the Dairy Queen. "There wasn't much to do but pick up a guitar and write a song," recounts Ian. The songs written in his Ste. Genevieve basement were about a world yet to be seen, a life waiting to be lived. "It didn't take long for those songs to feel like lies," Ian remembers. "I could write about whatever I wanted, but if it wasn't honest, it wasn't worth writing... or listening too, for that matter." It was time to say goodbye to the fields and find some truth down the road.

Leaving Ste. Genevieve behind, Ian set out for the "big city" of St. Louis, where the residents' dreams are like the many abandoned factories: oversized and decaying, but fertile soil for the creative few who choose to tend to them. He went looking for truth in books on politics and found it, but there was a hitch. "I found lots of truths in books, but not my own: other people's truths." Sure, that made for a better song than the ignorant musings of youth, but there was still no experience in those songs. And for that, there is only one place to turn: the road.

This go around, the road would lead somewhere different than just 50 miles up the Mississippi. Ian packed up his guitar case, got on a plane, and emigrated to Vienna, Austria. It was surreal. Being in Vienna, five thousand miles from his grandfather's farm, Ian felt like he was home for the first time. It only took 24 hours for him to know that he would be spending much more time on this side of the ocean. Here was inspiration! Here was freedom! Here was the first place that Ian experienced who he truly was. "And I'll be damned if the honest songs didn't start to flow like the Danube itself." All the same, this home away from home couldn't last. It seems that something else had already become Ian's home: the road.

In 2010, Ian traded his Viennese life for a short stint in New York City then a flat in Berlin, Germany, that would enable him to tour full time and he's been counting train tracks ever since. After hundreds of concerts in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Denmark, the Netherlands, Ireland, and the U.S., seven self-released albums, and 953 songs (give or take a few), Ian has found a refrain. Like a dusty record, it spins endlessly: the road, the road, the road.

Ryan Thomas Carpenter
2012 - Missouri

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released March 29, 2012

Ian Fisher – Vocals and Guitar

Max Andrzejewski - Drums (Expressway Sketches, New Found Land)
Simon Bauer - Bass (Hans Unstern Band, Berlin/Göteborg String Theory, Jose Gonzalez, Bernhard Eder, Slow Trio, Salt)
Ryan Carpenter - Wurlitzer, Backing Vocals, & 2nd Acoustic Guitar (The St. Louis MUNY Theater, The Nowhere Train)
Andreas Laudwein - Electric Guitar (The Alma Church Choir, Miss Kenichi, Lena Paul)
Ollie Samland - Pedal Steel (Strange Country, Bernhard Eder)
Rike Scheffler - Backing Vocals

Engineering - Roy Knauf (Deichkind, Peter Fox, Miss Platinum)
Mixing - Hannes Bieger (Mai., Junior)
Mastering - CALYX (Calexico, Jose Gonzalez, David Bowie, etc...)

Photographer - Andreas Jakwerth
Painter - Anna Kohlweis

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Ian Fisher & The Past Berlin, Germany

Ian Fisher (26) is a little man with a big voice, who is based in Berlin, Germany, and was raised on a farm in Missouri, USA. He has written nearly a thousand songs and has played just as many concerts all over the world. Those songs, like the man himself, are short and simple, but somehow stay with you and say a lot. He is a 21st Century Country musician... without a country. ... more

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