Name: Key Chains
Duration: 4 min 8 s
Channel: William McGuffey Perry
Description: "Key Chains" is a song by Wm Perry.

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Wm Perry

Singer/songwriter, Indie self-recorded: Wm Perry writes & performs tight, well-crafted songs. Honest & not boring, sometimes disturbing, with jangled-y edges. T

"I approach the writing of songs as if it's the only tool I have, with which to do something I don't understand." BIOGRAPHY: Failed. Kept moving. Your typical starving artist story. BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago, followed by several years in the Sign Industry. Front man in a multitude of short-lived bands, playing in clubs and warehouses in Chicago and LA's artsy, marginal war-zone neighborhoods. Now solo artist, self-recording. Bought a cheap, old house on Craig's List (without seeing it first!) and moved from Chicago to Cincinnati, an "economic refugee" you could say. Now completing renovations that make four floors of combined living/studio space and working on new music.

Song Info

Genre

Alternative • Indie

Author

William McGuffey Perry

Rights

Wm Perry

Uploaded

June 11, 2010

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.8 MB • 128 kbps • 4:08

Lyrics

Key Chains - William McGuffey Perry

I thought I’d get a cowboy hat
The kind with feathers on it
A briefcase and the kind of wallet
That chains right to your belt loop

I’d stack them all into a pile
And leave for several hours
Then I’d look inside of each of them
To see what had developed

And it was key chains
That looked like bugs
All done up in pink and yellow
Their eyes light up
When you squeeze their sides
To help you find the keyhole

I sat outside in the car
Feeling good and funny
I slouched in the seat and pretended to sleep
With the radio all warm and runny

Everything’s passed down the line
Till it can’t go any further
And the last one there is crushed to death
Beneath the case of key chains

Key chains
That looked like bugs
All done up in pink and yellow
Their eyes light up
When you squeeze their sides
To help you find the keyhole

I dragged myself out into the night
To look for signs of survival
But all I saw was sleight of hand
Or the coffee break in the middle

A line had formed around the block
To fill out applications
I held the form up to the light 
And the watermark was a picture
Of

Key chains
That looked like bugs
All done up in pink and yellow
Their eyes light up
When you squeeze their sides
To help you find the keyhole

(instrumental fade)

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