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I Want To Be Well

by Mike Legere

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I was asked to write this song to accompany an article about a friend (Stirling Myles) running a solo marathon after the one he was signed up for was canceled due to Covid-19. It's about the individual struggle for wellness, more specifically it's about my relationship with anxiety and depression- and how running helps me manage those conditions.

It was written, recorded, and produced in a week, during Covid-19 social distancing, in my apartment, with contributions from Omar Shabbar, Colin McNalley, and Greg O'Toole.

Artwork by Michael Gavin White
@green_eyed_look_alike

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I am a humble breathing machine

I take comfort in listening to experts agree 

And when drywall and bricks hide the high anxious streets

I find chaos in the stillness of the air that’s in between 

Been living like courage is tied up in action

Starting to feel like that was a distraction

But I’m not here to preach
Not here to sell
I just wanna be well 

With these walls the limits of what we can dream
we’ll hang tapestries up of celestial things
Their coldness suspended; the loneliest scene
in the vast anechoic anxiety machine 

The weight of their awe forming cracks to the ground 

Mind pulled to their orbit- as the whole house comes down
But I’ll build it all back- I won’t take it for granted

I want to be well 


shaking off dust
through the Cycles of lush, famine and drought 

the things we have seen would have seemed like a dream

we know they’re possible now 


I am potential kinetic energy
I find purpose in pushing myself

under the sky’s vibrant mystical textures

a sovereign expression of health 

sometimes each steps so incredibly far 
it feels naive to step out 

but I’m through feeding anger- this crater- this cell 

I want to be well


taking our turns
In the sickest of worlds 
while times running out

but the things we have seen- they once seemed like a dream

too absurd or far out 

the things we have seen- it wasn’t a dream
It was our way out

I’m a collection of headlines and memes
I find comfort in the structure of familiar beats 

when the men play out war games in televised scenes

I take comfort in objecting where no one can see 

a symphony of limits // fight the civics of dreams

And lash out at the anechoic anxiety machine
The pressure of feeding your wealth
At the cost of my health
I want you to be well 


but I clawed my way out of hell 
I want to be loved
And I want to be well

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released May 22, 2020
Written, Engineered and Produced by Mike Legere

Mike Legere- acoustic/electric guitar, vocals, percussion, bass
Omar Shabbar- slide guitar, bass
Greg O'Toole- electric guitar
Colin McNalley- drums

Artwork by Michael Gavin White

Special Thanks to: Stirling Myles, Dante Matas, Stewart Legere

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Mike Legere is a songwriter/producer from Nova Scotia, based out of Toronto Ontario.

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