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Copyright 2021 Andrew Pendleton
APmercury and The 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

Give Your Best Away.wav

Stay Where I Can Still See ou Trying EP

Stay Where I can Still See You Trying

Give Your Best Away (V2)

Heart Brake by APmercury 
Demo recording for reference only
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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

I'll Never Pick Wild Flowers Again
by APmercury
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Copyright 2022 Andrew Pendleton

I'll never pick wild flowers again I'm certain of it on My Honor I pledge
To let each one live to wither where it grew
It's easy to vow any how I only pick flowers for you
Seeing you there with no color in your face the long look far away in each time that she gaze
As if I'd picked you from a stem upon a hill
Where you once were alive wild and blooming still
Decorate a coffee table with the
Wilting of your raw beauty
Give your love to the dying junkie
And refuse me
To let each one live to wither where it grew
It's easy to vow not to pick them I only pick them for you
As if I'd picked you from a stem upon a hill
Where you once were alive wild and blooming still
I'll never pick wild flowers again
 they wilted away just like you wilted away as my friend
I've never seen so much go away so fast
I never thought that you could so easily turn your back
Turning you back
I wasnt gone that long
And you turn me to stone 
I'll never pick wild flowers again
Cuz I always pick them on my walk back to you
I'm certain of it I won't pick them I won't stop
Even though everyone as pretty as you makes me want to





Wild Flowers Again

I Remain (demo)

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email: ap.mercury.ap@gmail.com 


lyrics:
This part is hard to play  but on with the show
Lost in this remote setting with characters I don’t know
Motivation is clear Summers gone now its October
I’m supposed to act like I have accepted its over
Wandering with wider steps to outpace my shame
   I’m scared but walking out in darkness will mark the change
     I can adjust to see and make my way with no light if I wait
Underneath our bare feet petals grew up between our toes
I dreamed we were in meadows where every wildflower grows 
And blankets of dander landed as pillows on your head
The meaning doesn't matter id rather have you in our bed 
They say time dulls the blade of memories that cut
 I’m getting what we wanted, while you're still stuck to stuff
Its evergreen come to life with me we wont fall you ’wont budge
Come out here it's raining again and i remain in love
 I'm begging you to grow with me sitting among old growth Douglas Firs
But My Pleading is not needed for you to say a few words 
Grab your bags get your cat slap the keys get in the car lets go
   We don need much more than each other and the open road   
    I want to find freedom in the trees and in your eyes
    I've stared long enough to see how your demons get exorcised  
   You’ll be okay in the morning after waiting for the slow sunrise
There's a whole new life if you abandon that ship before it sinks
Why any person wastes so much time how much time do you thinks
Left before your ghosts can show  the reasons why they stayed
 to be moved by the few who endure  life's troubles w bravery and grace	
They say time dulls the blade of memories that cut
 I’m getting what we wanted, while you're still stuck to stuff
Its evergreen come to life with me we wont fall you wont budge
Come out here it's raining again and i remain in love

I Remain

all rights reserved. 
Demo from Camp Myrtlewood Tapes

I Remain (unplugged)

Grieving .m4a

bare reflection and haunting sadness. 
#folk #indie #songwriter #breakup
Another basement tape by APmercury 
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Choke and Scream to Breathe

Chaotic upbeat danceable lofi discordant song reckoning with love present and past

Hard on Love (Remix)

Perfect Fifths 
another basement tape from APmercury

Copyright Andrew Pendleton 2023
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Perfect Fifths

A folk ballad from APmercury
"Old Copper Penny"

Copyright Andrew Pendleton 2023
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

The year the way of the world ended
in 83 with the old copper penny
tested methods  fermentin' an pressed together
Tobacco bowed out for opiate pills forever
this is the thrill of the new Saturday night
mud cups still glistening white
we dont act the play anymore 
no make believin our armies aren't at war
the bow tightly bent to aim at a point
to help the living cut through stadium noise.
Natives foretold that sickness comes
warriors fight and red dirt stuns
we got to quit when announced of time
plucked where we hung on to summers vine
to ripen and be rinsed and eaten then forgiven
ashamed to say I pray to white religion
made to rest with one knee bent
all life's  mean meanings to heaven be sent
why worship the mother and be so wishful 
as you pin me still with eyes of crystal
don't look upon me so eerie and evil
your stare is stunning and serves to belittle
what once was so hollow and hopeful
now is the end of the show we just opened. 
Act one was the best and second a mess
the scene where I hoped the hero would confess
he quit instead and his identity stay hidden
retired to the hills somewhere east over Eden.
Now the third Act nothing looks like before
The set has been struck on the stage just a door
only actor standing holds   in each hand a penny
And tosses them up lets it and lets them drop to a landing
Heads or Tails isn't really important
the audience isn't informed and he completely ignores it
its the sound that the coins make as they strike the ground
And which one drops fastest that's meant to be found.
We sit to ponder what's the meaning of this show
And if we leave now where would anyone go?

Old Copper

Old Copper Penny

Old Copper Penny (uptempo)

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

Slave to the Brain V2

AP Mercury writes and performs original music in Portland, Oregon. 

Copyright 2018 
From Andrew Pendleton & PendleTones
from a preview of planned debut EP Mercury Island, the single release Shorten the Days available on Amazon 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

No One Listens to Andy

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.wav

Stay Where I Can Still See You Trying

Hey Sweetie

Velvet Handcuffs

Copyright 2020 Andrew Pendleton
APmercury & PendleTones 
Rights Reserved


This is a song about a girl as jewelry. An allegory for stolen opportunity.

Typical Metals

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Copyright 2020 Andrew Pendleton
PendleTones Music 
APmercury: Petroleum Ocean (demo)

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 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

Country Fuck by Lorenzo Diazapeen  with AP Mercury
Copyright 2021 Andrew Pendleton and PendleTones 
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

COUNTRY FUCK, BETTER THAN YOU!

Trump. Absurdity. Politics. Biden. Right. Left. 
Parody. Comedy. Satire.

Country Fuck/Country's Fucked

**all recorded songs here are rough draft/demo recordings made on an iPhone. seeking players to bring them out. AP mercury.ap@gmail.com** 

AP writes songs recognizing the swiftness of life, dealing with loss, love and navigating various genres offering a message of kindness and community, aiming towards a more inclusive and healthier society. Mercurial, reflective, lyrical. 

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