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Irony is Not a Type of Metal

from Walking Into Brooklyn by James Tristan Redding

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Written and recorded by James Tristan Redding in the house by the river.

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So the highway is a string of decisions
You can't always tell at the time
If the hand that you're shaking
will later be making you
Wish you had not been so blind

And tonight there are lights all around me
So I'm not really sure where I am
But I'm flashing and burning
and everything's turning out
Stranger than I ever planned

If we try to see into the future
I suggest we might question our eyes
There are buses and train tracks
that run through the rain
Back to anything that passed us by

My body is like a Toyota
Good mileage and low cost repairs
But my mind needs an oil change
and I'm here to exchange
A favor for paper and prayers

I am sure I belong in a movie
I have yet to discover what kind
But these empty containers
and legal disclaimers
Suggest I won't like what I find

You were not my first choice of distraction
And you won't like my taste in LPs
But it's quarter to midnight
if we play our cards right
Nobody will see when we leave

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from Walking Into Brooklyn, track released November 13, 2012
The piano is a Rudolph Wurlitzer upright. The guitar is a Martin 000-15. I used a Rode NT1 microphone through a Native Instruments USB recording interface to a MacBook Pro running a share-ware mixing program called Reaper.

Words and music copyright 2013 by James Tristan Redding. Registered with BMI. All rights reserved.

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James Tristan Redding Nashville, Tennessee

British-American songwriter, singer, audiobook narrator, studio player, Godin Guitars official artist.

Founded global collective www.SongAWeek.org, performance art experience The Under Over: tinyurl.com/uoxuo (song circle underneath a highway) and writing retreat www.TheNashville24.com (annual challenge: write 24 songs in 24 hours).

Cuts by Sarah Harralson, Eli Alger, Emma Gale, David Easterling
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