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Hemingway Never Slept Here

by Apoc

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An anthem for the skeptical traveler? A rallying cry for residents of the forgotten flyovers, maligned metropolises, and cultural hinterlands? Or just a little ditty about the big names and the things they haven't done in the places they've never been? This track was intended to be a part of the 'Progress, We Exalt Thee' album that has yet to be publicly released (but was shared with a select group of fans and friends back in 2016). In the end, I felt it didn't quite fit the album, and it's floated in a sort of song limbo since. I am really happy to have found a home for it in this series of singles and get the chance to share it with you. I hope you find it worth a few listens...

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Lyrics:

Hemingway never slept here
Lord Byron left no debt here
Tolstoy, that old windbag, never spent one wasted breath here
John Lennon never ate here
No great Churchill debates here
No sons of kings or saints with wings ever came to meet their fate here
Beethoven never played here
Dr. King never prayed here
No storied swords or stuff of lore was ever said to have been made here
Shakespeare wasn't born here
Armstrong never blew his horn here
That consummate entertainer, Josephine Baker made no stops to perform here
Dylan Thomas never drank here
Rockefeller didn't bank here
No poet's skiff or pirate’s ship made history when it sank here
Joan of Arc never stepped here
Wild Bill lost no bets here
So you can save your sales pitch and suspect tales, it's not going to have an effect here
Cuz Hemingway never slept here
No, Hemingway never slept here

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released January 15, 2021
words by Apoc
beat by Robert Krums
Mix by Keith Kreuser
design by PFels

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