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Dead Key Drawer

by Tom Shea

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you wake up, if that’s what you care to call it curse the sun that creeps in through the cracks give a shake and wish upon that old magic 8 ball that always says “don’t count on it” no matter what you ask nobody sets out to be forgotten nobody intends to be had every snare the hunters laid is rotten lying in the dust of Khorsabad all those puppy teeth were so so sharp before the years of grinding in your jaw everyone remembers you a gold star shining nobody remembers when the sky went dark the dead key drawer in the hall reminds you that every key outlives the lock it serves every snare the hunters set to bind you is just a kiss across your haptic nerve a million prisoners paint the walls of their million cells each brick the colour of a brick each lightbulb painted the colour of the light each thing disguised exactly as itself the dead key drawer in the hall reminds you that every key is bound to be forgot and every light the wardens set to blind you illuminates all their secret thoughts nobody sets out to be forgotten but here we sit beneath Dur-Sharrukin every snare the wardens laid is rotten the dead key drawer gapes to draw you in
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Eigengrau 04:12
Eigengrau close your eyes let everything fade soft to gray tomorrow might be a new day- a new day - a new day when the dark is fully complete you make sparks in the back of your eyes to invent a new sky. i will miss you - my love 1000x 1000x but i will hold you always in the back of my tired eyes
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I'm planting a garden red roses and raspberry canes a border of sweetness love disguised as thorns that twine between your heart and mine springtime will send you purple heart violets and blue columbines patience and folly combined to fill the barren field that lies between your heart and mine stuck here in december i can't get a seed in the ground i can barely remember the world keeps circling 'round and round again and again, i'm planting a garden red roses and raspberry canes a border of sweetness love disguised as thorns that climb between your heart and mine; love that fills the vacant lot between your heart and mine

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Songs from my basement, late 2020 to early 2021.
Big love to all my friends at the Dundas Music Club for giving me a stage, friendly feedback, encouragement, and a reason to keep on making music.
Even bigger love to Cathy and my kids.

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released March 4, 2021

Everything by Tom. Words, music, recording, mixing, cover art.

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Tom Shea Hamilton, Ontario

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