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The Ride of Your Life

from Mr. Noah's Opus by Noah Kleiman

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I don't know of any other folk-pop songs about what it's like starting a 501(c)(3).

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The Ride of Your Life by Noah Kleiman 2009

Sometimes it starts so simply, there isn't time to wonder if it's right
Just time to buckle in and hang on tight, as it takes you for the ride of your life.

And just like any coaster ride you know, the starting part is rough and slow
But you're building poten-chill / as you drag your ass uphill.

but sometimes you move so slowly / that it's unclear where you're going
and you hope the future's warm, and safe, and bright
As you're bundled at you shabby desk / spinning nothing into what you know is right
and yer heater casts a shadow against the dim hope of a bare-bulb basement light.

Oh, sometimes it works so simply, you never stop to question if it's right
as the visions in your head materialize, from the cobwebs in the corners and the quiet.
As you scribble down your dreams they seem to summon something real, that's parked outside.

Keep both hands on the steering wheel, and one eye in the rear-view mirror.
You're piloting the ride of your life.

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from Mr. Noah's Opus, released July 12, 2011
Noah Kleiman - voice, guitar & a bare lightbulb

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Noah Kleiman lives in Portland, Oregon. Sometimes he makes music, sometimes he doesn't. Sometimes the music is pop songs, sometimes it isn't.

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