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Kerry Samson was my first recording and performing alias (Kerry stuck, Samson did not), under which I self-released two solo acoustic albums Playing With No Friends and Proud To Be A Failed Waiter. I no longer have suitable master files from those albums, so here is an early foray into digital multitrack recording (combined audio and midi in home computer sequencers still felt revolutionary in the 1990s).

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The long and boring road that leads to bed
Motorway enui
Grim monotony
Drudgery
Felony
I really ought to be home sleeping.

It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive, so someone said
Well, I say bollocks
I'd rather just get there
What's so sodding great about wasting so much precious time
Behind a wheel
Out on the road
My radio is broken and I've been through all my tapes
I'm bonded to this tarmac with no chance of escape
Until I reach the exit that is where my town awaits
I can finally get back home

It's 4 o'clock Sunday morning, my eyelids feel like lead
I'm trying to keep myself awake
I dice with mortal peril at one hundred miles an hour
Half asleep I'm rolling onwards
I've half an eye out for police and a quarter on the road
Driving over potholes, it's a mother load
Far too many miles 'till I can get myself unloaded
All alone and bloody tired.

Motorway enui, it ain't no way to be
I just want to see my bed
You can take your key to the highway and you can shove it up your arse
I just want to bang my head
The sun is shining in the sky as I make it to my door
I've been awake so long I can't remember what I stayed up for
Trying to stop myself from falling flat down on the floor
And my housemates are not my friends
My housemates are not my friends
My housemates are not my friends
My housemates are not my friends

credits

from Music Kept Me Sane: The Best of Quicksand Kerry 1998​-​2008, released June 1, 2019
Written, performed and produced by M P Jackson.
1997

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Kerry JK Northampton, UK

Gender and genre fluid singer-songwriter producing songs of identity, isolation and defiance incorporating jazz, electronica, art rock, vocal looping, poetry and rock opera theatrics.

Be yourself, as yourself. There is no greater fulfilment, and no sweeter revenge. ... more

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