One Way to Go Is West

Well, one way to go is west

To stop in each town for a few nights rest

Find everyone you know

And a show and then go

I got some friends in the north end

And I met a mermaid on the island of sand

And I don't mind Edmundston

There's a good gig at Pub Le Deck

Then you're bound for Montreal, Quebec

It seemed like the center of it all, way back when

I'd still like someone to show me Leonard Cohen's house

Before I head south

I used to live in Toronto

When I was 21

So lucky to be lifted

By a song from home

I got some family in Seattle

An old roommate out on the Pacific coast

I know a girl in California

We used to play in a band

Like them, I'll leave Newfoundland

To see the cities that I can

And live hand to mouth

Between car and couch

And to the season's whims surrender

Well, my best friend in grade five

Well, he lives in Yellowknife

With his dog and his wife

He has a good life

Tyrone left Newfoundland

To build the best life that he can

To not live hand to mouth

Singing of getting out

And leaving your crowd

In a memory