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He wasn’t busy being born, but he didn’t want to stay at home
Things were moving faster than the days were flying by
And it seemed like a disaster, when the bank put you to pasture
But you came up with a new plan in the blinking of an eye

Took a job as a stock boy in a sporting goods store
Because shutting it down wasn’t something you were made for

You spent your last days under the Mynah Bird
More than a memory fades under the Mynah Bird
You spent your last days under the Mynah Bird
And didn’t know the trail you blazed

A naked singer sings a funeral song and the go-go dancers dance along
A glass box gimmick hanging out over Yorkville’s avenues
Neil Young and Rick James played there then they stole the name
Long before the Super Freak and the Buffalo Springfield

A scene was blowing up as you were breaking down
I wonder if you ever stopped to listen to that sound

You spent your last days under the Mynah Bird
More than a memory fades under the Mynah Bird
You spent your last days under the Mynah Bird
And didn’t know the trail you blazed

I hope you weren’t like Syl Apps and his truncheon army gas masks
Filling wagons with the voices of a city being born
And I’d like to think you heard something,
even just the floor boards thumpin’
After-hours in the basement filling shelves down in the store

A scene was blowing up as you were breaking down
I gotta think you must have stopped to listen to that sound

You spent your last days under the Mynah Bird
More than a memory fades under the Mynah Bird
You spent your last days under the Mynah Bird
And didn’t know the trail you blazed

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from Live Static Roots Oberhausen, Germany, track released July 10, 2020

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The Stephen Stanley Band Toronto, Ontario

Stephen came up through the Canadian music scene with The Lowest of the Low. After years of touring, a gold record for 'Shakespeare My Butt' and some hard knocks, he thought of walking away from music. He never did quit though then his friends and fellow musicians urged him to form The new Band.

New record coming Fall 2017

All page photos by David McDonald ... more

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