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 
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Stay Where I Can Still See ou Trying EP

Stay Where I can Still See You Trying

Give Your Best Away (V2)

original song: good looking by suki waterhouse
icon: banana fish
no copyright infringement is intended! feel free to request something :)

good looking

loving machine

Wearing Black - Narcotic Isolation (acoustic)

Something I came up with while I was messing around with my guitar and FL Studio.

Space Oddity - David Bowie(Instrumental Cover)

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:
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

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.)

Poverty

Water To Our Mouths ((take 3))

*For concerns about licensing, please email ap.mercury.ap@gmail.com.
Arrangement and performance by AP Mercy 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)

AP writes songs recognizing the swiftness of life and highlighting the characters people often avoid or miss, dealing with loss, love, solitude, grief, and frustration with the ongoing waste humans have been making of paradise, producing ballads navigating various genre types as alternative rock, indie folk/acoustic, and alt-country, painting images with words and harmonies familiar to the 20th century American songbook, offering a message of kindness and community, telling stories of being exploited and discarded by the ones we expected to love, begging for forgiveness before we die, aiming towards a more inclusive and healthier society, and hopeful that time hasn’t already passed to correct the world gone wrong. Some songs perhaps suggest succumbing to its darker side. It reminds us of our hidden madness and a kind of minimal movement response to big assaults, as if to reject the grandiose ego of The Spectacle that is modern times. Mercurial, reflective, lyrical, emotional, raw, authentic and brave, these songs deserve, and may require, a deep dive to discover what is so right (and wrong) here in the modern human drama.

*all recordings are unmastered and unreleased for wide streaming or purchasing, existing as a means to capture them before they’re gone and for future professionally recorded releases. All rights are for the songwriter Andrew Pendleton, better known as the artist AP.

Water To Our Mouths ((take 3))

AP Mercury

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