My Dad is a Humble Man

from The Middle Ages, Vol II by Tyler Shipley

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This song is the heart of this album and the song I still play for myself at home. There are a lot of songs on this album about my dad, but the strange thing is that I wrote most of them, including this one, when my dad was perfectly healthy. There's some old cliché about not appreciating things until they are gone, but in my experience, I've often learned to appreciate things just before they were gone. I appreciated the shit out of my dad, but I only really figured that gradually as I got older myself. I'm really proud of who he was and where he came from and this album is about trying to be more like him.

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Before he turned seventy, I took my dad to see the crumbled ruins of a city he'd seen in a documentary. We walked upon majestic ancient walls and my dad knew that he was small. In 1972 my dad's on a film crew sent to Afghanistan to shoot b-roll for the national news. Paramilitaries held American guns to his head and my dad thought it was the end. When he was seven or eight, my dad walked to his sister's house, it was late, outside of Mafeking, eyes of the wolves glowing in the trees. They followed him and he watched over them and that's why my dad is a humble man.

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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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