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Gus Mahoney

Blue tape box, blue tape box

Drove trucks for eleven years and writes like someone with time to think and no radio

the numbers

bpm
172
key
G major
energy
0.71
dance
0.95
valence
0.43
vocal at
2.3s
length
3:07
language
En

lyrics

I cut the tape at dawn

On your old hall table

Found ten rent receipts in a Folgers can

And a church key in the cradle

A cracked field note book

A ballcap from '98

The crock pot smelled like bay leaves

And dust on the cookie plate

Your handwriting on a tag

"Save for maybe later"

I stood there with the banister

And the stairwell breathing cedar

Blue tape box, blue tape box

Blue tape box, blue tape box

What's kept? What's kept?

What you never tossed

Three loose dentures in a cup

By the sink with the leak

A photo booth strip from Gatlinburg

And a pawn shop wedding ring

Old tax forms folded tight

In a flour can by the flour

Your keys still in the tackle box

By the water heater tower

I held a cracked cigar tin

Full of buttons and a dime

And that map to Pigeon Forge

With your coffee ring still on it

Blue tape box, blue tape box

Blue tape box, blue tape box

What's kept? What's kept?

What you never tossed

In the linen closet shelf

A collar from your dog

A note that said "call Ruth back"

And a sandwich bag of coins

I laughed at the brittle things

Then I had to sit down slow

'Cause every little saved-up piece

Was a road I didn't know

Blue tape box, blue tape box

Blue tape box, blue tape box

What's kept? What's kept?

What you never tossed