Garage Saling Song (Live at the Moonshine, 2008)

A confession of sorts, but to myself.

This song has irked me for a while. I wrote it ages ago, and it was just so long and self-indulgent that I really didn't know what to do with it. And then I just cut it in two and it seemed to work out okay. I'm an old folkie, so there's going to be that in my music always. My Dad is a brilliant acapella singer. I'll get him singing something with me on the next one...

And I know...

That I am standing
That I'm not free
That peace is fleeting
Madness you see
That I'm not pretty
That nothing's destiny
That I'm a tyrant
That I've been petty

There's a reason
A sage or three
My tale is written
The author's me
My fame is fleeting
No others see
My shame's misleading
It shouldn't be

Honestly Part 1

Important Note: The single version of this song is my entry in to the 2022 Toyota Searchlight Competition. You can vote for me here: https://www.cbc.ca/music/searchlight/#/vote/tom-miller

"As a musician, it's difficult to say for certain what your sound is, or how your sound differs significantly from anyone else. Well, I think it is, anyway. My partner tells me that while the styles of music I explore are diverse, there's always an element of “Tom” to them that makes them identifiably mine. I thought about this after she said so, and came to the conclusion that this song is perhaps the most “Tom” thing I've done. I can hear a lot of my influences, but they're all coming through my strange and cracked lens.

And speaking of Tom, I of course had the inimitable #TomEllis in mind when I did my vocal. Not that he's ever far from my mind....;D"

I shook your hand and let it go
You walked away, you didn't know
I was the one who saw your heart
And I'll be the one who takes your soul

Do you know
Where it's going to go?

You looked in my eye then turned away
And I heard all the lies you couldn't say
So I took that heart away from you
Then I stole your rotten soul away too

Do you know
Where it's going to go?
You think I know?

Don't tell me to go
I'm the Devil you know

And of course I know
Where you're going to go
You're gonna come with me below
Oh, it's time to go.

You're gonna like it down here
We have all the fun

It's not like you used them anyway
You basically gave that shit away
Your soul's been weighed, you've failed the test
Now I'll tell your little black heart the rest

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