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Past and present Canadian live music gigs with Yukon singer songwriter Ben Mahony:


 


Times Changed, Winnipeg, as a member of Matt Allen an the Little Buddies, October 4, 2010


CD Release, Foxy's, Whitehorse, Yukon, July 7,8, 2010


Moonstroke Festival, Mount Mac, Whitehorse, Yukon, January 25, 2010


Watson Lake Conference Centre, Watson Lake, Yukon, New Years Party, Decmeber 31, 2009


Yukon Fest, Railway Club, Vancouver Sept 25, 2009 Ben Mahony Trio


Shipyards Park Canada Day Celebrations April 20th, 2009


Flippers Pub, Whitehorse Yukon, October 12, 2009


The Edge Gallery Winnipeg with Crash the Car February January 28th, 2009


Railway Club, Vancouver, BC January 12th, 2009


Poachers Arms open stage, London, Ontario January 8th, 2009


Bass Line, Ottawa, Ontario, January 2nd, 2009


The Main, Vancouver, BC October 23, 2008


Empress Ale House, Edmonton, Alberta October 4th, 2008


Tongue and Groove, Lethbridge, Alberta December 11th, 2007


The Slice, Lethbridge, Alberta December 10th,


Atlin Arts and Music Festival Solo July 2007


Guided By Voices tribute with the White-Striped Jets, The Slice, Lethbridge, Alberta December 8, 2007


Tom Waits tribute, Times Change, Winnipeg, Manitoba January 19, 2007,


Ben Mahony and the Westminster House Band, The Pitt, Dawson City, Yukon January 26, 2007


The Palamino, Calgary, Alberta Feb 16,2006


Egan's Fort St. John, BC Sep 19,


O’Byrnes Edmonton, Alberta, August 20, 2005


The Backwater Whitehorse, YT Jul 24, 2005


Dawson City Music Festival Dawson City, YT Jul 13, 2005


Tongue and Groove, Lethbridge, Alberta Oct 11, 2005


For a fuller listing go to


http://www.myspace.com/benmahony


 


Lyrics from Yukon Love Ghosts (Selected)


 


Angel Is Overcome


 


 


Winter and Summer are the Seasons


Failure and Lust are the reasons


Dumbing it down for the Demons


As the angel is overcome


 


Wrestling the devil in the details


Jamming telepathic signals


If you could clarify the situtaion


Uncomplicate the situation


 


Maybe it's all very simple


Until the next time I see you


 


You shouldn't have to be alone


Cause even monks don't die alone


and drunks don't drink alone


and junkies fix with whoever comes


 


so until the next time i see you


you shouldn't have to be alone


No one should have to be alone


 


You shouldn't suffer one


You shouldn't suffer alone tonight


You shouldn't suffer alone


No one should have to suffer alone tonight


 


A country away from the feeling


Of confidence in our being


Countin the tiles on the ceiling


You shouldn't have to be alone


 


Drunk dial love and then denail


I don't need a mixed message


To know what it is that you re feeling


I can barely hear you breathing


 


Maybe it's all very simple


Until the next time I see you


You shouldn't have to be alone


No one should have to be alone.


 


Chorus to "fade"


 


 


Between several words are your meanings


Long distance lies are the detials


Dumbing it down for the demons


As the angel is overcome


 


 


Dark Wit of Winter


 


I've got the Dark Wit of Winter calling me


Somebody screams from behind


I've got the dark wit of winter calling me


Jeanie's in a bottle of red wine


 


I've got the Dark Wit of Winter calling me


Somebody screams from behind


I've got the dark wit of winter calling me


Jeanie's in a bottle of red wine


 


Pull the cork


Crack a joke


I'll laugh


At anything you say


About all of these misfit prophets who know


Who mock the world and jump for joy


They're calling me down creeping me out


Feeling me up


Cuttin the crap and judging me


If you can stand after all of this abuse


I just might let you buy me one


 


 


I've got the Dark Wit of Winter calling me


Somebody screams from behind


I've got the dark wit of winter calling me


Jeanie's in a bottle of red wine


 


For all the things


I've had and given away


This is my reward


All this beauty


All this damage on display


Angels with demons they can't hide


 


 


The northern lights


Advertise tranquility


But you've got to find it on your own


So here's a free one


Here is something if you're stuck


And I'll pretend no to care


 


I've got the Dark Wit of Winter calling me


Somebody screams from behind


I've got the dark wit of winter calling me


Jeanie's in a bottle of red wine


 


 


Fault Lines


 


Straddling the fulat lines


Cut wide and deep


Straddling the Fault Lines


Cut by a memory of two


Empties me


Stripping me


It's a pain that cuts both ways


Empties me


Stripping me


It's a pain that cuts both ways


 


Straddling the Fault Lines


Damaged by your lows and highs


Straddling the Fault lines


over a chasm and death and change


 


Empties me


Stripping me


It's a pain that cuts both ways


 


Empties me


Stripping me


It's a pain that cuts both ways


 


Deconstruct the battles lines


Where sex and pride entwine


IS death and transformation


Our Prize


Or a consolation


 


Holy Blood


Spilled wine


Holy Blood


Spilled wine


 


Higher Higher Low


Higher higher Low


Higher HIgher


 


Higher higher higher higher low


It's a pain that cuts both ways


 


 


Marquee


 


If I found that this contact


It called you down from above


It disrupted and denied you


From the centre


We're bound together


Well you stayed


When you decided


It could not be avoided


In your new city


Unleashed


You had to let it go


 


You let me go down


and pass away


You let me go down


and find a way to get strange


You let me go down


and pass away


You let me go down


and find a way to get straight


 


Well I went down


to a centre place


and now you come around


and want me to act just like


We were never broken


I was not resentful


It's easier when you're twenty


and don't try this at home


Well you drive me


You inspire me


But you do not make me happy


You're a magnet on the marquee


and I might have to get free


 


You let me go down


and pass away


You let me go down


and find a way to get strange


You let me go down


and pass away


You let me go down


and find a way to get straight


 


It's a bitter world


It bruises your knees


Jaded hearts react toxicly


Some truths are better left unspoken


Some lovers just can't get it together


 


Set Your Heart


 


Set Your Heart


You had a dream at birth


You had a heart to find


In these days


You travel far


You search for a place to go


Down in the city


Up into the Upper room


Down to the bar


Up to the mountain


 


Down to the City


Up into the upper room


Down to the bar


Up to the mountain


 


Plug me in


Don't let me be


All the way Away


Fell my pulse


Switch me on and off


I'm all the way away


 


Set Your Heart


After Dark


All the way away


No appetite


To stay in at night


I'm all the way away


Set your heart


Set your heart


 


Down in the city


 


Up into the upper room


Down to the bar


Up to the mountain


 


 


Down in the city


 


Up into the upper room


Down to the bar


Up to the mountain


 


Gimme gimme gimme


 


I always want more


I always ask for more


Stay afloat


Wear an overcoat


That will you shelter you from the pain


 


Down in the city


 


Up into the upper room


Down to the bar


Up to the mountain


 


 


Set your heart


Set your heart


Set your heart


Set your heart

Yukon Love Ghosts

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