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Quicksand Kerry - Music Kept Me Sane

from Music Kept Me Sane: The Best of Quicksand Kerry 1998​-​2008 by Kerry JK

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I first wrote and recorded this in 2001 with the Ladykillers' 'Electric' James Martin guesting on lead guitar. It then went through assorted remixes, overdubs and programming before I settled on this final version around 2003.

This is not a heavyweight lyric. As a statement on mental health it's on the level of They're Coming To Take Me Away Ha Ha, but I picked it as the title track of this retrospective because music really is one hell of a coping mechanism - there'll be more honest expressions of my emotional foibles on the coming tracks.

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Music kept me sane
Music kept me sane
If it wasn't for the beat of a kick drum
I just might have killed someone
Music kept me sane

Music kept me sane
Music kept me sane
For the sound of electric guitar
You people don't know how lucky you are
To have music
It kept me sane

'Cause when the music stops, the voices start
When the music stops, the voices start
When the music stops, the voices start
The music, the music, the music kept me sane.

Music kept me sane
Music kept me sane
Oh, bass and a drumkit
Does more for me than a valium hit
Music kept me sane

'Cause when the music stops, the voices start
When the music stops, the voices start
When the music stops, the voices start
The music, the music, the music kept me sane.

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from Music Kept Me Sane: The Best of Quicksand Kerry 1998​-​2008, released June 1, 2019
Written, performed and produced by M P Jackson
Guitar solo by James Martin
2003

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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.
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