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Tape Travels: 20th Anniversary Edition

by Handtruck

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1.
Country 03:56
Driving over hills with waving trees going somewhere I suppose to the sunset Stopped to grab a Coke we spoke of feelings Pink Floyd and how to avoid Being torn apart you and I in the country watching blackbirds fill the branches Picking at clover taking horses home at dark Being torn apart you and I in the country and I made you laugh on the porch of the trailer and that's what makes me want you I brought you lightning
2.
Will she want me if I approach her with roses, chocolates, and confidence that can't be shaken when I assert that I know some funny jokes and she proves that I'm mistaken Will she want me with stacks of money if I'm a built rich genius with a line of people clamoring to be my friend or wanting at least to be seen waiting I'm afraid I'm afraid of her Will she have me if I decide to look up always the talker while the water tower rusts and I wait at the Sunflower I'm afraid I'm afraid of her speeding off to the crayon forest
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I'm killing myself with kindness why couldn't it be you instead I have to get sick before I get well I'm not fit for human contact I'm not as sane as we thought I didn't learn as much as I was taught like the best minds of my disintegration sitting in the dark in the handicapped spaces I tried to make myself get up and build a world that I could live on The world caved in A bullet-eating balloon I showed her the ad which said "Is you child caught" I thought, "no doubt" she said "Come on, that's not you" I tried to make myself get up and build a world that I could live on Viewfinder registered nothing I loaded up my backpack
4.
Stareater 04:20
I tried to explain love to myself I still didn't get it she dismantled jokes and breathed wine waiting for words to fill her sentences Flowers by Georgia relieve me, release me from hourly anomie deserts become seasons and seasons of centuries She finished off all of her thoughts by pulling up her socks then we headed out for the coast and the coast for the postcards took the air from her hair making harmony for energy Then we called off the calendar to invent these super-times when we split our own atomic schemes to prove the theory of ourselves
5.
Crawfish 02:42
You dropped me off in hell on your way to church how could you piss on the fire we built together Now all of my friends are foreigners we talked over crawfish but nothing would come out right I'm tired of hating you You were my left hand and my salt and my electrician You are my worst man jughead of your jug band I have to wonder were you just a trick but it's worse than that you make me sick I can't believe I feel and say all this stuff but I do believe I've had enough
6.
She came from the tropics globe sits rocking on speakers people run inside themselves peel back the warning label How does a blind man get turned on Forming opinions into laws of nature Hold it you're not mad enough mister, I'll need your religion Scratch your thoughts for blood her hand appears across blue static When the wind comes to an end bring the mountains with you when the wind comes to an end take your final solo Humanity fits you just so Take your broken feet to people's shoe repair When the wind begins again bring the mountains with you when the wind begins again take your final solo
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My soul won't grow back I made the right indecision after reading my loaded Bible Barbie Dopehead you don't have to explain why you're insane is that your married name Where did Kick go where is he where did Kick go Not enough people understand art everyone understands commercial power You're my sweet love of the earth, baby Where did Kick go where is he? Tennessee, in the sea
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Hazel's Fruit Stand is where I met my true love she was thumping melons and squeezing tomatoes she was ripe already I asked her about her favorite fruit she ignored me at first and only bought a few things Took her to the top of a telephone pole and we listened to everyone's conversations she ate an apple and I had a pear wasn't a lot to say up there Take me there So we got down and paid Hazel for her time and became granules of sugar
9.
Beauty Fire 03:44
Hattiesburg, Mississippi Not so huge you can't escape the buildings you live there I do not I try to move for now I visit in your room Picayune, Mississippi the Paris of the county on a pine tree pedestal And you let me see you naked There's a sign that say "Jesus is the lord over Picayune" And we'll read Ecclesiastes And we'll sit beneath the temple rubbings
10.
Take A Zero 02:58
Roaches in every corner no one ever says excuse my French Take a zero make a hundred fifty average The importance of the river is that it's made of electricity laughing for eight straight hours listening to the world band radio Pistol in hand smoke or get smoked tanks and tractors fuel for plastic, kiss your sister Twisted sister/sister kisser true slash false guilt can't sleep right I'm defective I am my own insult
11.
All the professors in all their schools surely all of them cannot be fools So many churches religion-ing which just happen to have just the god you're looking for I would never try to lie to you Nothing's more important than the truth Except maybe your health your cash and perhaps your ass oh, and last but not least... perhaps your beliefs Nothing's more important than the truth whatever that is
12.
Game Theory reminds me of you sparkles in grey and a single pickup yes I saw your guitar in the pawn shop and I wondered what the hell you went and sold it for The world was asleep while you were awake me too man and I really listened your collection of 45s really was the shit to the coolness of your bands I readily admit You burned one in the back and you tried to share the show began but you had to stop it halfway through to show the notes to the bass player counted off the song again and kicked it Panther-like
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A seated dog and standing master paused on time stairs at spring landing next to a bathed blue-grey analyst struggling to tame his patience with his patients prostrate screaming from the couch On the edge of the rungs of history playing games at sea as the grasshopper clings to the face of the girl Suddenly a streamer-tailed redfish swims through air focused on pale spread thighs baby picture floats through guard rails The infinite wish rises

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Remastered and expanded edition of Handtruck's 1996 debut CD "Tape Travels." Includes 9 live tracks, including 3 songs not on the original CD.

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released December 14, 2016

CD credits
Clinton Kirby: guitar, vocals
Chris Clark: bass
Steve Deaton: guitar, keyboards, vocals
Rando: drums, engineering
Princess Claire and Red Heather: background vocals
Basic tracks recorded to Tascam 4-track in each player's home, then transferred to 8-track ADAT for vocal and instrumental overdubs.
Artwork produced by Joel Stroud
All songs copyright 1996 by Clinton Kirby except "Hazel's Fruit Stand" copyright 1990 by Clinton Kirby/Alvin Lingenfelter
(see bonus material for full credits and gratitude)

Live credits:
Clinton Kirby: guitar, vocals
Chris Clark: bass, vocals
Brian Hughley: drums
Live tracks recorded to 2-track cassette at Tal's Dart Bar (Hattiesburg, MS) in 1997. Tracks 11-13 recorded to tape deck at the 3rd Annual 14 Happy Clock Pajama Party, tracks 14-19 recorded to handheld cassette recorder by Steve Deaton and Brad Clark.

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