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Living in a Song

from Local Support by Tyler Key

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I was an angel from Montgomery but I lost my wings
I was born to run on Dexedrine
The old rugged cross is a brittle old thing
I’ve been living in a song since I learned to sing

I’ve been living in a song since I learned to sing
I ain’t learned much of anything
How not to do the blues, how to stay in time
and put your fingers in your ears when your baby cries
It don’t last long
living in a song.

I was a bridge over water, trouble was my luck
I put a half a million miles on a pickup truck
through that bougainvillea and honeysuck
I’ve been living in a song someone else made up

I’ve been living in a song since I learned to sing
I ain’t learned much of anything
How not to do the blues, how to stay in time
and put your fingers in your ears when your baby cries
it don’t last long
living in a song.

I’ve had the workingman’s blues since I was a kid
I should’ve cared about Merle when I said I did
But if we’re born to grow and grown to die
I’ll be living in a song that’s five miles wide.

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from Local Support, released May 3, 2019

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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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