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Dead Key Drawer

from Dead Key Drawer by Tom Shea

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Was thinking about locks and keys. The earliest ones were developed in the ancient Mesopotamian city of Khorsabad. And here we are now, 3000 years later, still developing better and better ways to lock things away from each other.

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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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from Dead Key Drawer, released March 4, 2021
Written and recorded the weekend of Feb 16.
Words and music by T. Shea.
All instruments by T. Shea, including 8 tracks of meticulously de-synchronized hand claps.
Thanks to Rattlesnake instruments for the splitter box that let me use the Rick-o-sound feature on my bass for the first time in the 25 years that I've owned it and enabling that bonkers bass tone.

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