An ummastered and unreleased demo recording of an original song written, performed, and mixed by AP Mercury in Portland, OR. 2021

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Copyright 2021 Andrew Pendleton
APmercury 
PendleTones

Give your Best Away

We wont live long carrying on this way
I write the words you might wrap round my grave
Will I have my back covered 
Can I search your skin to discover
It’s past time for the world to change
We’ll Stay up all night and  hide from sleep till we fade

Now that we know the reasons why
How quickly we’ll die if we don't try
The next harvest should contain only the sun
No crude death burns like what we’re digging up
So please stay I need a friend 
And If ya seen this one before, don’t spoil the end

Just stay where I can still see you try
Dont let opportunity keep  passing us by
There's nothing really better than forgiveness
Test the word in the middle 
and give your best
Away and stay to watch it go down

This world selfish men
Exploiting the sources to no end
I want to get us away from it all
But I’m stuck down from our long fall
Afraid to even try to stand
Underneath this sky full of stars oh man

Oh Great Spirit of the Secret lead us out 
Need mighty forests to grow up from the ground 
Need mighty forces to shake us from the ground

Give Your Best Away

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An ummastered and unreleased demo recording of an original song written, performed, and mixed by AP Mercury in Portland, OR. 2021

Copyright 2021 Andrew Pendleton 
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Stay Where I Can Still See ou Trying EP

Stay Where I can Still See You Trying

Give Your Best Away (V2)

An ummastered and unreleased demo recording of an original song written, performed, and mixed by AP Mercury in Portland, OR. 

COPYRIGHT 2022 ANDREW PENDLETON
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Haunting vocal harmonies over acoustic guitar to a slow swing, themes of regret, longing, heartbreak, reckoning, self reflection, concern.

Heart Brake

An ummastered and unreleased demo recording of an original song written, performed, and mixed by AP Mercury in Portland, OR. 2023. 

copyright 2023 Andrew Pendleton 
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Punchy tune, in which AP can be heard pondering the meaninglessness of being, depleted from frequent fleeing to a ditch when the wounds of pleasing mean people reached a limit. and  Acceptance of being defeated any andalways misplaced. 7

Waking up  in a Drainage Ditch

An ummastered and unreleased demo recording of an original song written, performed, and mixed by AP Mercury in New Orleans 2024. 
(Tip my cap to Teenage Fanclub [Bandwagonesque] and Matthew Sweet [Girlfriend])

COPYRIGHT 2024 ANDREW PENDLETON. 
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

the well has all dried out. 

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An ummastered and unreleased demo recording of an original song written, performed, and mixed by AP Mercury in New Orleans 2024. 

COPYRIGHT 2024 ANDREW PENDLETON
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

I hope i haunt you in your dream
The way you linger over mine nightly
I want to know you’re in an empty room
That you wake up empty inside too
And youre reminded of me in everything
  The wells we used to pull 
the water to our mouths
Once were very full
 now have all dried out
The abyss you pushed me in still stares at me  
I should get used to being filled up with anxiety
I would have drowned by now but i’m on fire
Said you’d lead me to the water you’re a liar
you just stood there while I burned to the ground entirely
  The wells we used to pull 
the water to our mouths
Once were very full
 now have all dried out
Why don’t you show yourself to me
Why make me keep on faithfully
Gimme a slick maternal apparition
Spin me on the circle of contrition 
Then I’ll put down my possessions and follow thee 
  The wells we used to pull 
the water to our mouths
Once were very full
 now have all dried out

How could a duty to steward beauty be ignored
I don’t see any light in this tunnel to move towards
we gave life to light then let him hang to death
Did you catch the question on his dying breath
What in the hell am I dying for?

Water to Our Mouths (all stripped down version)

An ummastered and unreleased demo recording of an original song written, performed, and mixed by AP Mercury in New Orleans 2024. 

all rights reserved, 
copyright Andrew Pendleton 2024

lyrics:
The deeper I fall the sweeter you taste 
Sleep brings me back to all we erased 
I wish those moments we’re captured in glass
I’m holding on to you walking into the past 
How can you be so close in my dream
But then I wake and your dead to me
How long do I get to live so alone
Falling all over myself going home 
It’s easier than keeping up with somebody new 
It’s easier than It was keeping up with you too 
WhenI go to sleep the clouds over my bed
the rain i need but they just thunder instead
how can you be so close in my dream
but i wake up youre still dead to me
i have to keep my best ideas to myself
foaming at the mouth to everyone else

learning to find meaning when all your life
every motivating feeling was carrying a lie
every time i exhale it adds poison to the room
I'll have to find a reason to keep breathing without you

Falling All Over Myself Going Home

ummastered and unreleased demo recording of an original song written, performed, and mixed by AP Mercury in New Orleans 2024. 
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COPYRIGHT ANDREW PENDLETON 2024

 lyrics:
If the last breath of life is to come as my surprise
Let the secret I’ve kept be the thing in me that never dies 
Stayed the course and became more focused 
Accidental witness still slipped by unnoticed 
Make my next moment mirror the blurred line
 Written on stones erodes to sands of time
 people buried me for being in the hole you put me in. 
Still I was never as finished as I should have been but 
Your Love never pressed a kiss upon my lips
A mouth never heals when once it completely rips 
I’ll reach up and wave my fingers through the lingering cloud 
 stand here in this evaporated riverbed and act like I’m proud. 
To scatter misty milk pixels from crystals you light
 A new girl pushes through from a distant star light
I’ll be satisfied when I’ve forgotten 
How much I pretended to savor what tasted so rotten
You hid the keys deceived and split me and left  me for dead
You had the option to drop in on one of the other lives that you led. 
Dismissed the rich silk I was spinning into a dress
Shaped exactly for you but you resisted it and stayed a mess.

Last Breath of Life

ummastered and unreleased demo recording of an original song composed, performed, and mixed by AP Mercury in New Orleans 2024. 
Copyright 2024 Andrew Pendleton
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Reasons for Our Dreams

ummastered and unreleased demo recording of a song I wrote for the girl who refused to accept true love.
All rights reserved
copyright Andrew Pendleton 2024

Reasons for Our Dreams (V2)

ummastered and unreleased demo recording song performed and produced by AP Mercury in New Orleans, LA, 2024
COPYRIGHT 2025 Andrew Pendleton
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Sit Down, I Think We Should Talk

unmastered and unreleased demo recording of an original song by the perpetually misplaced artist AP Mercury. Alone in New Orleans. This is the last song written for my tortured love, she who somehow never felt it’s immensity.


2025 COPYRIGHT ANDREW PENDLETON
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Conflict History

ummastered and unreleased demo recording, A somber stripped down take of a song's reflection on loving intensely and losing profoundly. 
Recorded in Dec 2024 in New Orleans by AP Mercury. 

copyright 2025 Andrew Pendleton
all rights are reserved for the artist 

Conflict History (Alternate Take/A.S.D.)

unmastered and unreleased demo by AP Mercury, a minimalist vocal/acoustic guitar song of lament 

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copyright Andrew Pendleton 2025

Water To Our Mouths ((take 3))

unreleased and unmastered demo recording of a song written and recorded by AP Mercury in New Orleans 2025

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Copyright Andrew Pendleton 2025

Let Your Work Be Done


Arrangement and performance by AP Mercury of "Empty" - a song written and released by Ray Lamontagne for the RCA label in 2006 on the album "Till the Sun Turns Black." This is a cover song to show appreciation to the songwriter and cannot be used commercially, not be made available for download, and cannot be monetized on streaming services, I do not have the permission of the artist nor the mechanical license. Rights are reserved to Ray LaMontagne/RCA Records. 

*For concerns about licensing or copyright, please email ap.mercury.ap@gmail.com.

Empty (Ray LaMontagne Cover)

Demo of a song by AP Mercury
Copyright 2025 by Andrew Pendleton
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When You were Holding On to Me:
(F# major)
I'm so far
From so many things
Barely hanging on 
Dangling from these strings 
Feelings keep hitting
Like the Waves on this lake
My heart can sympathize 
Every time they break 
        My memories are holding on 
       Don't want to set them free
      I close my eyes and there you are 
     When you were Holding on to me 
This seems like the ocean 
But the fresh water makes it clean 
July is almost over 
2 years now since you been 
The woman that held me down
the stone I wouldn't throw
Now I'm shining black light looking
for the hidden ones that glow 
  Like sand to glass
   Wind gust and I collapse
    What in the hell am I gonna do
     I don't want to live without you
      I need to rinse my mouth
       And spit the water out 
        Maybe breathe it in instead
         Drown the pain in Michigan

When You were Holding On to Me

Written and recorded by AP Mercury   Minnesota, 9/25.
All Rights Reserved. 
Copyright Andrew Pendleton, 2025.

 Im too slow to release
To be seeking peace
An idea  thats foreign to me
Getting LOST to perfect getting free
The trouble i find 
Is the price i pay
To settle my mind 
Be on my way
The trouble I find
That's the price I pay
Like a deal that i signed 
A promise I made
You never answer the phone 
On fat tires in the dark alone
If the Skinny wires could touch my bones
Im sure those bones would explode
Bet that i never will  
Really like standing still
Stay too long my guts start to spill
 moving Target is harder to kill
Don't look my way and Think
I'LL be the first one to blink
Im practically  levitating
You're drowning in your drink
       You have some kind of face…
       Your face looks so kind.
       You have some kind of face…
       Your face looks kinda like mine. 
  i still think about it how Dumb
We weren't the same kind of young 
I can feel the earth flying around the sun
Holding on tight slows it down some
  If theres anything worth it to keep
Its The clean feeling of her feet 
After being wounded in the street
What kind of angel did I just meet

  
A wild desire burns
Out here on my own terms.
Painful mistakes make sure he learns. 
Life's hard enough without your judgment, concerns





Trouble I Find (Promise I Made)

A rock n roll song by AP Mercury recorded in Spring Valley, MN, Autumn 2025
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COPYRIGHT ANDREW PENDLETON, OCTOBER, 2025 

My hands REACH UP to heaven 
My feet keep the beat in hell 
My belly is still empty
If my heart is healing I can't tell
I wake up so easy
With nobody around 
It's hard to find a reason
I wish the sun would just stay down

I miss you in the morning
I miss you all the time
But the way your first smile at me
Felt Like your spirit rhymed w mine
hints and warnings in your voice 
An exploding sound from a bomb
Transformed all the noise 
Left Fighting against the dawn
There's so many open doors 
But I don't feel welcome to go through
anyway   I wasn't even invited 
would be a selfish thing to do
I miss you in the morning
I miss you all the time
I miss the way you smiled at me
Felt Like your spirit rhymed w mine
hints and warnings in your voice 
exploding sounds like a bomb
When we turned down all the noise 
Fighting against the dawn
If you could see me now
You wouldn't be impressed
I i could show you how
would you hurry up and get dressed
I still miss you every morning 
I guess thats for the best






EP Mercury

Fighting Dawn/Miss You in the Morning

Fighting Against the Dawn (Miss You in the Morning)

Ballad written and recorded by AP Merury in Minnesota, 10/25
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Copyright Andrew Pendleton 2025

Followed the Moss

I love your sunken moonshine eyes 
The sheen of light on your lip gloss
 Temptation took me by surprise
I remember always being pissed off

Lost her I know it.I know I deserve it
She’s all that i'm thinking about
followed the moss till I was totally lost
And i dont think ill find the way out

between the layers of glitter and glue
clinging to my dreams as i sleep 
I’m not sure how but I’m leaving you
 But My secrets are yours to keep

Lost her I know it.I know I deserve it
She’s all that i'm thinking about
followed the moss till I was totally lost
And i dont think ill find the way out
 
Bridge 
I remember when we met in an open field
Both of us naked in a summer rain
danced to the music our silence revealed
Your yellow hair blowing in the wind with the grain

Cause I need someone to talk to 
I’m moving sounds around in the clouds
Nobody else anywhere get me like you do
A stranger passing through all of these towns


Followed the Moss

Acoustic guitar, drum set, and doubled vocals. A ballad reflecting on loneliness.

Song by AP Mercury
All Rights Reserved
Copyright 20025 Andrew Pendleton

 I remind myself of someone but don't know who
It's hard to identify the ceiling in this room
Say your name out loud listen for my phone 
Nobody calls mine now at the end of lonesome road
Once upon and from time to time I dream 
You and me and we're caught somewhere between
The bed where I sleep now and the bed in our old home
Waking up is tough at the end of lonesome road. 


Strange apparitions  keep coming into view
Full moon casts a shadow its requesting a tune
I'm not playing for them but they'll never  never know

I'm always playing to you at the end of lonesome road
Once upon and from time to time I dream 
You and me and we're caught somewhere finally coming clean
Reality comes in the morning and i’m still getting stoned
Waking up is tough at the end of lonesome road. 

I'd love to share the feelings I have left
But I can't find nothin in this mess 
When I straighten up this place I'll play a solo show
Sell out to the ghosts at the end of lonesome road

At the End of Lonesome Road .wav

AP Mercury - Slave to the Brain Version 2
Copyright Andrew Pendleton & Pendle/Tones Music
#APM80

Slave to the Brain V2

Copyright 2019 Andrew Pendleton and PendleTones Music
Check out the single release Shorten the Days including the song No One Listens to Andy, a preview to the planned debut album Mercury Island. Available on Amazon and elsewhere: https://www.amazon.com/Shorten-Days-AP-Mercury/dp/B07NNSMZYN/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=ap+mercury&qid=1559592639&s=dmusic&sr=1-1-catcorr

Shorten the Days 
How can a boy be called a father
Like hearing his name eschewed 
How can we call a child to play
A yet unwritten etude
So many feel that call
But as the day comes to choose
So many people stand in round in groups
But in grace there are just a few

Unless those days we shorten
There should no flesh be saved
For the sake of all of us
So must our days be taken away

Three times he learned to stand up straight
And in the mirror his gaze was trust
By then it was over or at least too late
His tears turned his steel cheeks to rust
Locked in the forest chained to his crime
His heart had been taken they said 
Only the closest whisper would tell him
We love you and we leave you for dead

Unless those days we shorten
There should no flesh be saved
For the sake of all of us
So must our days be taken away

Shorten The Days (Single)

Shorten the Days

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Stay Where I Can Still See You Trying

Hey Sweetie

Velvet Handcuffs

Go By Train.wav

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APmercury & PendleTones 
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 Typical metals burn my skin
Surface feeding stains it green
No faking chains or nickel rings
It devastates my alchemy 

You’re a rare stone on a common necklace
A ruby jewel set on a braided wire
appearing plain but presenting precious 
ancient questions beg us too,  requires

This is a tune about a girl as jewelry
A metaphor of stolen opportunity
Don’t overthink or lend it acuity
We've had enough of the privileged scrutiny
This should clear up any ambiguity
Ladies aren’t wrong to choose promiscuity
Reverse shame and admit your truancy
She's not yours to wear like jewelry\

fresh bathed in a new kind of calling
Polish off the sympathy to find me crawling
I’ll find it if I have to search all night
It’s down here hiding where there’s seldom light
If you wait until it shines you’ll catch the view
Reflected off the ground it looks like you

Typical Metals




An ummastered and unreleased demo recording of an original song written, performed, and mixed by AP Mercury in Portland, OR. 2020

All Rights Reserved
Copyright 2020 Andrew Pendleton

APmercury: Petroleum Ocean (rough mix)

Patches of all of the waters are trashed
With fragments of our plastic past
But I just close my eyes and focus on the fire in my chest
I can't save the whole world if I can't save myself                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Our kids won't swim in the Petroleum Ocean
I think we will have to control the emotion 
Outcomes unfold to a man, men put this all in motion 
Our kids won't swim in the Petroleum Ocean

Petroleum Ocean

AP Mercury: A Voice That Endures
​The songwriting alias of itinerant humanist Andrew Pendleton, AP Mercury crafts ballads that transcend genre. These are songs built on the foundation of the 20th-century American songbook, utilizing vivid lyrics and distinct harmonies to explore life's essential currents.
​His work focuses on overlooked characters and the fleeting, often painful, nature of existence. The music spans alternative rock, indie folk, and alt-country, presenting narratives of loss, love, solitude, and grief. There is a powerful undercurrent that confronts humanity's waste of its own paradise, championing kindness and community against betrayal and modern excess.
​These are not commercialized tracks. They are raw, emotional, and authentic unmastered recordings, preserved to deliver stories that demand a deep listen. AP Mercury offers an honest look at the world, revealing both what is right and what is wrong—a voice that, once heard, will linger with the listener.
​A note on the recordings: All tracks are written and performed by Andrew Pendleton as AP Mercury. These unreleased recordings are presented in their raw form for your consideration, with intention on recruiting players for future recordings.

AP Mercury

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