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And I Was Like EP

by AJ McKinley

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1.
i'm at the end of the street, hanging out home cooked meals and sea side clouds just gorging on woe and doubt i'm slumming it all day long turn off the phone, crawl into a bong and try to forget about songs.... time is clearly running out until i'm losing ground and it feels like a hole is sinking my boat and i am slowly sinking down (so, keep on rowing) suddenly, it feels like it's been too long that i've been digging up my own soul and finding someone else's song i'm just bumming around in a house i feel like a grave digger digging up ground to lay his own body down but if your boat's got a hole, keep on rowing if your boat's got a hole, keep on rowing rowing to the shore a few strokes more... few strokes more... keep on rowing... oh, how long must I go on?
2.
Squinted eyes hide the toiling mind Squinted eyes seek the prize Shoot a bullet into the night, anyway that you like and you may hit something Shoot a bullet into the night, hoping it somehow finds it's way to the bulls eye What's a secret that you wish I knew What's something you can prove is true Greatness endures? What's your proof? The motivation is crystal clear The inspiration, I can feel it near So, hurry up so it can disappear
3.
Living just a stone's throw from the 24th corridor Dodging the social life like some shy toreador Out there in the night, there's rugs being cut There's flesh being pressed, there's scenes blowing up And lately as I walk out on the 24th corridor There's so many different kinds of people to meet and things to explore and all is hard to see behind a closed door and i can't bring myself to recall what I was hiding for So many good things to say about the 24th corridor and i can only summon cliques and weak metaphors and sometimes i wonder to myself, "why pay for the action"? when time at work and time with her is what i call satisfaction So, duck a bullet on your way through the 24th corridor To whatever watered down watering hole you've come to adore and i'll be holed up in my own hole digging for something I can share, something to break the mold i'll be holed up in my hole doing my lonely alchemy trying to make gold
4.
Fever Dream 04:10
how many years? how much elapsed time? since i dove into the river to see what there was to find? driven by something not seen with the naked eye driven by something not found in the waking mind do you see what i see when i dream? something boundless, faceless, never ending do you see what i see when i dream then please please find me while we're both asleep as i watch each word disappearing right into the void watching each humble dream violently destroyed fever clutches to the mind, concentrating on this boundless thing that i can't help worshiping do you see what i see when i dream? something boundless, faceless, never ending do you see what i see when i dream well then, here we go into dream... so find me...
5.
How can you go home after all the friends you broke? You listened to your fears and you got lost here. When you walked out the door, did you see a stranger there someone you've managed to ignore? If you want to spend all of your money when you get all stressed out & weird you can get lost here. When you walked out the door did you meet a millionaire & now you want to make some dough? What do you have to show for 7 years of noise? Are you all stressed out & weird? Did you get lost here? When you talk while you're bored do you believe the things you're saying, or have you turned into a stone? Because there must be life, on the otherside Where a boy can think and a girl can write Where the rents are low and the streets are slow but still I understand it if you can't let go
6.
Hide 04:58
most of the time i'm dumb struck by the outside and all its spoils to find and most of the time I prefer the confines of a safe place to hide growing numbness, in the face of the truth overwhelms me, to the point of feeling blue so lets sew shut the blinds, cut all the wires and lines and we will hide for a while keeping an eye, on the planes up in the sky for a smile that hides cause once you are here, we could stave off the fear we could summon a smile growing fondness, for this tangible peace pacifies us, for the moment at least so lets sew shut the blinds, cut all the wires and lines and we will hide for a while

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released January 1, 2016

Produced by AJ McKinley
All songs written by AJ McKinley except track 5, written by Jason Kick
All instruments played by AJ McKinley except Drumset on tracks 1,2,4 and 6 played by Zach Bookstein Partridge
Engineered - Jason Kick and AJ McKinley
Assistant Engineer - Jason Biggs
Mixed - AJ McKinley and Jason Kick
Mastered - Piper Payne at Michael Romanowski

All Music was recorded in Feb 2015 at Studio Paradiso and August 2015 at Treat Street Beat Retreat.

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AJ McKinley San Francisco, California

AJ McKinley is a fellow from San Francisco who plays lots of instruments and writes/records lots of songs.
Using artists like Brian Eno, Kurt Vile and Reggie Watts as jumping off points, the music is composed/performed/recorded using only a bass, vocals, a looper and a drum set. All "guitar-ish" or "synth-ish" type sounds/solos were created through effects and pitch shifting on the bass.
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