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I'm Going To Write A Song If It Kills Me

from Keep It Coming Like A Miracle by The Sleeper Pins

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Fittingly, writing this song opened the gates for the rest of the lyrics of the album to come flooding out of me.  I had a bit of writer's block for awhile, and what writer doesn't from time to time?  If you take any writing course the subject of writer's block will inevitably come up, and most will say that if you have writer's block you should simply write about having writer's block.  This will get your pen moving and your brain working and hopefully cure itself.  So that's what I did.  I wrote a song about having writer's block. And it worked!  
After finishing any song I often have this feeling of loss because I don't know where the next song is going to come from.  There is a fear of not being able to write anymore and a subsequent need to pull words out of thin air in order to create the next one.  It doesn't matter what it is about, just that it somehow matters and keeps you writing.  Keeps you being a musician. This fear wound up being the title of the whole album in a way, for I had come across a poem by Charles Bukowski called, "O, We Are The Outcasts" in which he talks about this very thing.  He writes, "keep it coming like a miracle" in reference to words and poems and their creation that can make a person a "writer" or "poet" or whatever else gets you notoriety.  He's actually calling the craft of writing and most of the people that do it full of bullshit in the poem, haha, but he loves it and so do I. Bukowski, love him or hate him, drops a decent nugget of wisdom now and then.
This song was originally going to be longer, with an added verse basically repeating the first one.  But once we got it in the studio we ran into some kind of roadblock and I had the idea of simply shortening it and making it come to a dead stop.  I looked over the lyrics and knew I had nothing else to say and that they had already served their purpose, so why bother dragging it out?  It's called song efficiency, folks :)  Fans have told me this song is the catchiest on the whole album, (who doesn't like hand claps?!) and they actually wish it DID go on longer, but I love playing this tune live and the band just coming to that dead stop all together.  Leave 'em wanting more...

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JUST CALL ME DETERMINED
I'M GOING TO WRITE A SONG IF IT KILLS ME
I'M SINKING AND HURTING
I'M GOING TO WRITE A SONG IF IT KILLS ME

YOUR BLANK WHITE PAGES WON'T SCARE ME AWAY
YOUR BLANK WHITE PAGES WON'T SCARE ME TODAY

I COULD GO FROM ZERO TO HERO IN 3 MINUTES FLAT

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from Keep It Coming Like A Miracle, released August 9, 2013
Tyson Allison--guitar, vocals, bass
Justin Deleon--drums, percussion
Aaron Kerr--cello

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Emperor Penguin Records began in 2003 in St. Paul, MN and later moved to Milwaukee, WI in 2015. The label is run by musician/producer Tyson Allison. EPR enlists and caters to singer/songwriters, introverts, experimental weirdos, bookish people, and crafters that paint pictures with words and toy with your emotions on a well-placed chord. Thank you for your interest! ... more

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