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First Terminus

by Tyler Key

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1.
Handmedown Persuasions 04:31
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My mother always said I was better than this town they just drink and smoke their dope, shoot pool, and sit around well, head held high and full of fear i never put myself quite near the foolishness she demonized or the passtimes they revered, so i say sha na na. Classroom's students clamored over this and over that when I spoke they drooped their eyes and searched for baseball bats Maybe now I realize that I was wrong and they were right but I wanted something more than the fleeting could provide. The sooner you can know is the sooner you can leave handmedown persuasions like so much spit upon the sea it rolls out with the current and the current's what i'm following the sooner you can know is the sooner you can leave. Sha na na. Sometimes people see in me a martyr for their cause. Someone to do their dirty work or someone to mow their lawn Well now, I'm not so sure I'm noble the righteous can't remain once they stray, they're washed away somewhere into the sand I wish i was a fire i wish i was a ghost or someone who'd do the best for you for you. But the sooner you can know is the sooner you can leave handmedown persuasions like so much spit upon the sea it rolls out with the current and the current's what i'm following the sooner you can know is the sooner you can leave.
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The Devil You Know 02:57
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I felt the sun unbridled, let the wind caress my face. I didn't wanna start this fire, burn down this whole damn place But i did, Lord it felt fine. No, I ain't the one for you honey but I'll do all right. I hitched a ride to Reno with a man with one glass eye I plucked it from its socket, started running for my life I did, Lord it was fine. No I ain't glorybound but I'll get by all right. Plucked a feather from a buzzard, cut the horns right off the bull I've burnt through this buffet but I've never felt quite full and I did, Lord. It was fine. If you believe in nothing, darlin' I'll be yours tonight. Got a loaded deck of cards and I'm knockin at your door and if you like this kind of thing I'll throw in fifteen more and I did. Lord, it was fine. Well if you like the looks of me, honey, darlin' I'll leave you be tonight.
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Annalies 03:33
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4.
She Will Surely Break Your Heart 04:18
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Walking Tightropes 03:57
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Zelda Fitzgerald 02:35
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Last Supper 04:53
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8.
Ain't No Such Thing 03:50
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I tried, Lord I tried tried to love you but I leave you and I keep you coming back for more And I tried, Lord I tried but it's hard to try and part with a part of you you've never known Ain't no such thing as love. And I tried, I tried Tried to part with the giving but the giving's always giving up and I tried, i tried try to love you and i leave you and I always keep you hanging on Ain't no such thing as love And I tried, Lord I tried but I love you and I leave you and keep you coming back for more and I tried, I tried Try to hit all of the notes but the notes won't come no more Ain't no such thing as love.
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That Ain't Me 05:52
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10.
Going to Texas 03:56
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A sober reflection or a piece of my mind tonsils cut out on the telephone line a shipwrecked angel or a pale valentine a payphone at a truck stop or a credit card declined and how many exit signs we've never passed by. No love ain't a promise nor a bud on a vine. I've heard of a river, don't know where it flows The wind in all the country songs, wild it blows You've been taking on water, you learn how to row Made a sail of feathers to see how high it would go and how many exit signs will fill up the sky? No, love ain't direction nor a pilot at night. The cities where we settle we'll never call home paper towns and junctions feel a little closer to the bone I've heard voices from the graveyard of folks I've never known high up on the hill where our shadow gardens grow "how many exit signs?" they all moan and repeat No, love ain't a number nor a dirty white sheet. Where fossil and bone make the bridges we mend and cables suspend us like strings that can't bend Where have we gone and what letters we'll send? Will they end up as children or as birds on the wind or as exit signs we've never passed by or love in the language or a sharp sharp knife?
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Willowbrook (Only One More) 05:24
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Only one more glass of wine, bartender, I'm through I'll gather the courage to leave or I'll break right in two One round of drinks for the girls in the booth in the back If only one more of anything could fill what they lack. Only one more prescription and I'll be okay Doctor, the pain in my side just won't go away Hope for the day that the devil will loosen his grip But the devil nor god have got nothing to do with this shit Just one more call to your phone and I'll call it quits Each time my voice turns to glass and sand when I spit Try to make out if it's you or it's me that I miss But when worse comes to worse we'll still be blessed with nothing at all One day I will be reborn as some feathered thing And I'll rise with the wind and whistle the notes that you sing. One day I will be reborn as some feathered thing and I'll rise with the wind and whistle the notes that you sing.

about

The whole thing was recorded on an 8-track Fostex recorder, with the exception of "That Ain't Me," which was recorded in a very amateurish manner on the 'puter via Cubase.

These are songs I wrote from 2011-2014 that I recorded myself and released to my friends mostly in order to get their money and therefore be able to eat. I don't know about you, but back then I was very broke, working maybe 20 hours a week (at a bank no less), and desperately wanted to be someone else. I played a lot of gigs and wrote a lot of songs. I had some expensive habits back then, one of which was taking photos of strangers on film. They call it 'street photography' but I wasn't too keen for the streets of downtown Athens Ga. So the album cover I shot on Indian Creek Rd., right down the way from my parents' house, while I was in the process of moving. I'm making this available because I feel like there's value in juvenalia and also I wouldn't mind random money. If you dig it, chip in. That's how we get to eat lunch.

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released October 12, 2014

Tyler Key plays all the instruments and sings all the vocals except for the following:

The Unknown Soldier plays "very human" slide guitar on tracks 2 and 11

Billy Bindlestick plays banjo on tracks 3, 8, 10 and the bonus tracks

A Stranger who looks a lot like Geraldo Rivera plays drums on tracks 1, 4, 5, 7, AND ESPECIALLY 9 HE WAS ON IT

Freddy (The Monkey) plays the harmonium on track 10. He wore yellow overalls during the session.

Somebody played a weird doubled violin on track 6 but I don't remember him or her, just the look in that person's eyes when he or she broke the violin by throwing it into the same river where Deliverance was filmed. Man, those eyes.

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Tyler Key Athens, Georgia

Athens, GA songwriter. Loud folk rock. This American Life as heard through a megaphone. Proud to be a bitter southerner.

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