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The Way To Go

from Koffer by Ian Fisher

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I never intend to confuse my audience, but I’m just so damned good at it. A few years ago I had the bright idea of forming three different bands (Ian Fisher & The Past, Ian Fisher & The Present, and, you guessed it, Ian Fisher & The Future) to denote the three different groups of musicians I often played with. Nobody ever understood it. Hell, I barely even understand it myself. Back in 2011 we recorded an entire album as Ian Fisher & The Past, but never released it. I put out a few of the songs on a 7” vinyl. If you’re among the seven people who bought that vinyl, then thanks. The other 493 copies are still in my basement where I’ve built with them a shrine to thank the creators of Spotify for their merciful €0.003 a song play. “Thank you kind sirs. Thank you.” (Insert Oliver Twist accent.) I digress… This song was supposed to be on the Ian Fisher & The Past album, it was on the 7” vinyl, and now it’s on the “Koffer” album. Recycling is a beautiful thing. Ryan Thomas Carpenter is a genius on piano and that’s what he usually plays with me now, but he played the second acoustic guitar line on this song. I don’t think he ever really liked playing guitar, but after that recording session with The Past we formed an acoustic guitar duo called The Present and he had to play guitar with me for the next three years. We ended that project though, Ryan’s back on piano where he belongs, and we’re back to my four syllable, googleable name.

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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 - take me for a ride like i’ve been taking you challenge me to love you make me change my mind about what i 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… take me for a ride like i’ve been taking you challenge me to love you make me change my mind about what i planned to do push yourself away from me so i can reach out and grab you

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from Koffer, released November 18, 2016
Ian Fisher - Lead Vocals / Guitar
Ryan Thomas Carpenter - Guitar / Backing Vocals
Rike Scheffler - Backing Vocals
Simon Bauer - Bass
Ollie Samland - Pedal Steel Guitar
Andreas Laudwein - Electric Guitar
Max Andrzejewski - Drums
Roy Knauf - Engineer
Hannes Bieger - Mix

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A modern songwriter born in rural America and living in Europe, making what Rolling Stone calls "Half Americana & Half Abbey Road-Worthy Pop".

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