Songs Sung Southward in Hopes They Reach Those That Need it Most

by An Uncommon Apparatus

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US HWY 69 SOUTH 02:41
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It's a cold June morning as My mother drives her golden Honda into the sunrise. We pass the largest statue I've ever seen in my life At least a three story tall-- Native American "Chief"! We travel south on this beat up highway Potholes bounces my sister in the back seat wide awake the hour spent on the Indian Parkway is without signal We are alone on this stretch. It's enough to drive anyone crazy But we're nowhere near our destination yet! At the exact moment the dirt on the side of the Road Turns from silt to sand, I know we're close. Passing thru Paris, Texas, just an hour to go! I'm headed to Texas, Grandma, we're so close!
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Song for Sextus Propertius 03:48
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The elegiac poet, close friend of Virgil, Wrote in couplets, latin, I dare not pronounce. Scribed more poems than I have songs Although his life was not very long I'm singing about Sextus! Sextus Propertius! I'm singing about Sextus! Sextus Propertius! Born in Umbria back in the day. Father died before he could come of age. Mother sent him to work a day job His poetry indicates that was not on lock. I'm singing about Sextus! Sextus Propertius! I'm singing about Sextus! Sextus Propertius! Rich young man, in with the son of consulate Tullius. It was at this time he met her, who inspired Cynthia Monobiblos. Brought into court by patron of arts Maeceneas Falling out of favor with his past love Cynthia. Died before he could finish his book four... I'm singing about... Sextus... I'm singing about Sextus Propertius! I'm singing about Sextus! Sextus Propertius!
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Ballad for Banjo 03:15
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On a dusty Texas road where the turkey’s play My grandma lives alone, grandpa a distant year dead. I sit with dogs on her front porch and I remember. Last year I was a worse and worse man, with Disdain in my heart and sorrow in my mind. This This year I made it through did not kill me. And one day I hope to visit grandma one day in her new House, far from where her goats and dogs once sat on a porch. I hope her horse named after a stringed instrument drifts into Sleep out on the plains and never comes back. And I hope the books and art she published keeps after I am dead Because part of me died the year I last visited her.
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Surrounded (tMG Coversong) 02:28
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It's a normal week for me when inspiration strikes. I have three tests, and in my downtime over the weekend in the morning when my friends aren't awake to study, I write an EP.

The EP gets a few songs and words removed (one song didn't even make the cut here because I didn't like the chord progression, sorry "three cities in Texas") but it inspires me to write several new lyrics, rhyme schemes, and I test out some sick new chords I've not usually done before. The EP becomes a branching out of new editing techniques, new styles of lyrics, and flows off the albumn I've been brainstorming up.

And here it is. School is out for most, and I decided that today was a good day to record. As such, the EP is done, and hopefully it will see the world.

For future consideration:

THE NEXT ALBUMN
"Perfume and Fish covers All People"
ON MYTH AND DRAMA, AND HOW THOSE ARENT AS CLEAR AS THEY MAY SEEM
7/30/18

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released May 22, 2018

thank you firstly to my friends and family, who push me to do stuff and not be a lazy couch potato all summer. you guys are the ones who rock <3

thanks to that friend on twitter (you know who you are) who told me to write a song for Propertius. I still don't think I sung his name correctly.

thanks to Southwinds for rejecting my poetry when I submitted it, so I could realize it's better as song than prose. (or at least that's how *I* feel.)

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An Uncommon Apparatus is edited and produced by one college kid who has a lot to say. Also appearing are a lot of other youth, who got a lot to play. Sometimes they say.

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