Dan Mangan - Peaks & Valleys (Lyric Video)

NATIONAL LIGHT TOUR 2026 Buy tickets at https://danmanganmusic.com Text me your town 310-347-4597 Sep 5, 2026 - Pender Island, BC @ Pender Island Community Hall Sep 12, 2026 - Prince George, BC @ Knox Performance Centre Sep 17, 2026 - Courtenay, BC @ Native Sons Hall Sep 18, 2026 - Nanaimo, BC @ The Port Theatre Sep 19, 2026 - Tofino, BC @ Tofino Legion Sep 25, 2026 - Bowen, BC @ Bowen Theatre Oct 1, 2026 - Prince Albert, SK @ E.A Rawlison Centre For The Arts Oct 2, 2026 - Saskatoon, SK @ Broadway Theatre Oct 4, 2026 - Regina, SK @ Darke Hall Nov 13, 2026 - Montréal, QB @ Church Of The Gesu Nov 14, 2026 - Québec City, QB @ L’Anti Bar & Spectacles Nov 16, 2026 - Kingston, ON @ The Spire Nov 17, 2026 - London, ON @ Aeolian Hall The great reminisce. My wife and I have a crush on another couple that lives a world away. We see them every few years. We keep in touch over email. We get gooey over pictures of their kids. I assume that they tolerate ours in kind. They live a parallel life in many ways. Like us, they have two boys. They balance artful careers and public identities with the domestic stress of making a living and raising children just as we do. Their names are not actually Steve and Sally, but their names are nearly Steve and Sally. When I get an email from Steve, there’s a good chance that I’ll get a touch emotional - even if it’s just a photoshopped picture of Theresa May. I suppose that it’s because the inception of my friendship with him marks a specific time in my life when I was conquering the goddamned world. We met at a pub in London, introduced by a mutual friend. I was on tour in Europe. Alone. I was winning an audience, twenty to fifty people at a time. I was making a life in art. We were young and broke, but rife with the intangible excitement about what might be possible. There’s a line in this song about a paper cup tea on a hell-bath festival ground. I was at Glastonbury years ago with “Steve and Sally” and it was very late. The days are long at outdoor festivals. We were filthy and sunbleached and exhausted and flying through the thrilling experience of being invited to perform at festivals like that. Sally handed me a cup of tea in the middle of the night. A proper British tea. It was piping hot and sweet and tasted like tears of joy. I’ll never forget it. Jason Falkner played the Minimoog rather than bass so the song sounds like Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover on LSD. I still have no idea what Joey Waronker was doing in the drum booth but everytime the beat drops I want to fly back to Los Angeles and kiss him. ------ Stream / Buy "More or Less" - https://artsandcrafts.lnk.to/DanMangan Catch Dan on tour! - http://danmanganmusic.com/ Web | http://www.danmanganmusic.com Instagram |   / danmanganmusic   Twitter |   / danmanganmusic   Facebook |   / danmanganmusic   Spotify | https://open.spotify.com/artist/5ByjU... LYRICS: [V1} Love is simple when it’s broken It’s the softest words ever spoken And I said I was kidding, but I was jokin’ Now I’m twisted up and lost in thought But I remember what I was thinking All those feelings always sinking All that waiting to take that stage And the feeling we could let ‘em wait [CH] Hey Steven, how’s Sally? How’re the peaks and how’re the valleys? I’ve been down some, but I’ll rally Have you found something to sink your teeth into? Keep it even, keep her happy, don’t be afraid to love her madly ‘Cause she will steer you and keep you afloat As you row that boat until you both let go some day [V2] So is it simple? Being older? We’ve got all these kids upon our shoulders See, I just get softer - the world gets colder Now I’m twisted up and lost in thought But do you remember? The night got late? Equations were recalculating in my veins And you saved my life in the final round Some kind of paper cup tea, some hell-bath festival ground [CH] Hey Steven, how’s Sally? How’re the peaks and how’re the valleys? I’ve been down some, but I’ll rally Have you found something to sink your teeth into? Keep it even, keep her happy, don’t be afraid to love her madly We should recap, lay it on me - the good the bad, the in-between Hey Steven, are you happy? How’re the kids, man? How’s that family? They cannot spare you from the valleys But they will give you something you can lean into So keep it even, keep her happy, don’t be afraid to love her madly ‘Cause she will steer you and keep you afloat As you row that boat until you both let go some day