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In A Different Song

from The Middle Ages, Vol II by Tyler Shipley

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The album was supposed to be twenty songs, ten on each side, followed by a volume of extras/covers. It became twenty-one because after I'd gone and written an album full of songs about my dad, he died suddenly in late 2015. I didn't know what to do with those songs, and I'm still not even sure what I think about releasing them, but I know that making albums has always been part of how I manage. This album was one of the places I could put myself, as I tried to figure out how to cope with losing such an important person in my life. I'm so grateful to Jay for all the hours spent working on these tracks, to all of my friends who added their voices and instruments to it, and I'm thankful for the opportunity to share this with people that I care about and who care about me. To answer the question I posed to myself in Warren Zevon, I have no idea why I still make albums, but if you are reading this, then you're part of the reason.

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A week before my dad was diagnosed I wrote a song about his getting old and I recorded it for my new record. But now I feel kinda fucked up about it. I didn't think it would happen so quick. It was my first real attempt to prepare for it and when I wrote that I wasn't ready, it wasn't just a line in a song I thought sounded pretty. In a different song on the same album, I said my dad was seventy-three. I just wanted a word to rhyme; now seventy is all he'll see. So I tuned my guitar back to normal but it don't sound normal to me. Yeah, I can still play a C, a G, and a D, but everything feels a little bit off tune. In a different song on the same album I said my dad was a humble man. He's a lot more than just that; he's the fucking compass of who I am. In a different song on the same album I wrote about him in the present tense. Now I don't know what to do about it, without my dad the world don't make sense.

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from The Middle Ages, Vol II, released September 2, 2017

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Tyler Shipley Toronto, Ontario

Tyler Shipley was the founding member of the Consumer Goods (theconsumergoods.bandcamp.com) and now performs as a solo artist.

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