This song is about the cosmos. It's about Space. It's about the universe. It's about life and death. It wonders if legacy means anything. It wonders about what happens to the energy things leave behind when we can no longer see or experience them. It’s about the luck that we end up on this planet at the same time as others and that our paths cross in the ways they do, when they do, and why they do. Some feel that music isn’t written, but pulled from the air- that it always existed, and always will, but is then quantified and recorded for human absorption. Maybe the same goes for love and connection?
I think about my grandparents when I play this song. I think about my family dog, Sundance. I think about all the minds who have lived long ago, and haven’t lived yet. I think about the dumb luck we all have to even have ended up on this planet as humans at all. Is there more beyond our understanding and our senses?
Like our favorite songs, I believe the impact of our brief time on this planet will echo long after we are gone, but that we owe it to ourselves and the world to leave as many positive echoes as possible, while enjoying our own time here before we move onto whatever comes next. Like your favorite song, we go on.
lyrics
“We Go On”
B. Mahoney, A. Saul, J. McIntosh, J. Chang-Soon
Mad as a hatter
Spolin’ for a fight on a Saturday Night
Making off like a bandit
Getting into the life for the thrill of it
Don’t go acting like we’ll get out alive
Don’t go acting like we’ll get out alive
Everyone and everything will be gone
But I’m thinking that maybe we go on
But you know that I always could be wrong
Everyone and everything will be gone
But we go on
Lonesome as a ghost
Bus ride home blasting “In My Eyes” Best Coast
Making offers they just might refuse, and
Fall with style, baby, yeah, we’ll never lose
Don’t go acting like we’ll get out alive
Don’t go acting like we’ll get out alive
Everyone and everything will be gone
But I’m thinking that maybe we go on
But you know that I always could be wrong
Everyone and everything will be gone
But we go on
LIke your favorite song, we go on
credits
from We Go On,
released April 8, 2022
Written and Performed by Bobby Mahoney, James McIntosh, Andrew Saul, and Jon Chang-Soon
Recorded and Mixed by Joe Pomarico
Produced by Joe Pomarico, Bobby Mahoney, James McIntosh, Andrew Saul, and Jon Chang-Soon
Mastered by Doug Gallo
Album Art by RB Roe
Special thanks to Matthew Koerner, Jon Alba, Zach Kornhauser, Cooper Davis, Carina Duffy, Madison Van Houten, Rebecca Stern, Zack Sandler, Hannah Greve, Mike Cubillos, Gregory Schwartz, Matt Fernicola , and the whole Telegraph Hill Records Team
(C) 2022 Bobby Mahoney Music LLC
(P) 2022 Bobby Mahoney Music LLC and Telegraph Hill Records
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