The Terminal Tavern
David Wilcox

The Terminal Tavern
By David Wilcox
Ah, what a beautiful place.
It is so lush and quiet in these walls.
It's a place where the sound really stands a chance of finding its way.
And I'm grateful â'cause, man, there are a lot of gigs that's just really hard.
The sound doesn't stand a chance.
A lot of times there's a gig that's between somewhere and somewhere else.
You really wouldn't go there to play it, but the booking agent says Well you're on your way. Why don't you stop and play, you know, the Terminal Tavern.
As my friend Gamble would say, What a skull orchard.
I mean imagine straining good, fine art sensibility through that veil of chicken wire.
It's the kind of place where you gaze about you at those walls of pecky Cyprus and pine wood adorned with frontier memorabilia and mint-condition tire tool sets.
And the ceiling under slung with fish net encrusted with detritus and streaming down through the steaming midnight air, a million shattered dreams that dangle like declensions of despair.
And the daily drunks just line the walls like lemmings in repose.
The festering booze assaulting their entrails, like time-release suicide.
They're stuck to that sticky floor and they're not moving.
And you think, What do they need?
Well, I don't have that.
What have I got?
I've got an acoustic guitar, it's not enough.
I've got words.
I wonder if they stand a chance to be heard.
Maybe music doesn't stand a chance.
I mean, I can make sound.
I have vocal chords.
I have strings.
I can make sound.
Who needs sound?
We need music and music is much bigger than that.
Music is timing with a capital T.
Music is hearing a song that sounds like your song, â'cause it's just what you've been dreaming of or thinking of, or praying for.
Suddenly it's speaking right to you.
And sure, there're all these other people here but they're just superfluous.
It's your song and it was meant just for you.
It hits home and it's real, â'cause it's coming from some place much bigger.
But in that place you look around and you think, Oh man there's no chance for this to happen. There're so many distractions.
There's always distractions.
All you can do is send it out.
I think Sting's analogy of songs is a great one saying, It's a message in a bottle.
You take all your best hopes and dreams and send it out in a bottle.
Toss it in the ocean.
Whoever gets it and when they get it, well it has more to do with the ocean than it has to do with you.
That's good, the ocean can be trusted, if the timing is right.
Send it out as best you can.


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  (You Were) Going Somewhere   A Different Kind of War   Advertising Man   After Your Orgasm   All My Life   All The Roots Grow Deeper   All the Roots Grow Deeper When It's Dry   Apple a Day   Ask for More   Bad Apple   Bad Reputation   Bail My Boat   Barbie   Between The Lines   Beyond Belief   Big Mistake   Block Dog   Blood Money   Blow 'Em Away   Blue Horizon   Boob Job   Brain Fever   Break in the Cup   Breakfast At The Circus   Burgundy Heart-Shaped Medallion   Cabin Fever   Cabin Fever   Captain Wanker   Carry All The Water   Catch Me If I Try   Cheap Beer Joint   Chet Baker's Unsung Swan Song   Chet Baker's Unsung Swansong   Circle Driveway   City of Dreams   Cold   Come Away to Sea   Coming Alive   Common as the Rain   Covert War   Daddy's Money   Dangerous   Deeper Still   Distant Water   Do I Dare   Do The Bearcat   Don’t Look Back   Down Here   Down Inside Yourself   Downtown Came Uptown   Dream Again   Dream In The Cup   East Asheville Hardware   Eastern Appalachian Roadside Art   Eye Of The Hurricane   Eye of the Hurricane [#]   Fall Away   Farther to Fall   Fartherest Shore   Farthest Shore   Fearless Love   Fire In My Bones   For Real   Freeze To Me   Frozen in the Snow   Get It Out of the Way   Get On   Glory   Golden Day   Golden Key   Gone to Santa Fe   Good Man   Good Together   Grateful for Her Beauty   Guilty By Degree   Guilty Either Way   Guitar Shopping   High Hill   Hold It up to the Light   Home Within Your Heart   Hometown   How Did You Find Me Here   How Long   Human Cannonball   If It Wasn't for the Night   In the Broken Places   In This Stream   In This Terrarium   Into One   Invisible Shield   It's Almost Time   It's the Same Old Song   It's What You Do With What You've Got   Ivory Tower   Jamie's Secret   Johnny's Camaor   Johnny's Camaro   Just a Vehicle   Kindness   Language of the Heart   Last Chance Waltz   Last One Gone   Lay Down In Your Arms   Layin' Pipe   Layin' Pipe   Leave It Like It Is   Leaving You   Leaving You/Leaving You (Reprise)   Let It Flow   Let It Go   Let Them In   Levi Blues   Little Piece at a Time   Little White Lie   Make It Look Easy   Mango   Mighty Ocean   Miss You When You Go   Missing You   Modern World   Moe   Mow 'Em Down   My Eyes Keep Me in Trouble   My Eyes Keep Me in Trouble   Native Tongue   Never Enough   New World   Nightshift Watchman   No Doubt About It   No Far Away   No Telling Where   Not From Here   Ocean Soul   Oil Talking to Ya   Older   On A Roll   On to the Next   On Your Way Back Down   Open Hand   Our Town   Out of the Question   Outside Door   Party of One   Perfect Storm   Plain View   Please Don't Call   Pop Out World   Preachin' The Blues   Prisoner of War   Push, Push, Push   Radio Men   Reaper Sweepstakes   Red Eye   Reverie   Right Now   Right On Time   Rise   River Run Dry   Riverboat Fantasy   Roadside Art   Rudolph Rap   Rule #1   Rule Number One   Rusty Old American Dream   Same Shaker   Saturday They'll All Be Back Again   Secret Church   Sex and Music   Shake It Baby   She's Just Dancing   Show Me the Key   Show the Way   Silent Prayer   Single Candle   Slipping Through My Fist   Someday Soon   Somethin's Shakin'   Soul Song   Soul Song [*]   Spin   Spin [From The Guitar of David Wilcox]   Spirit Wind   Start With the Ending   State Of Grace   Step into Your Skin   Still Life   Stones Of Jerusalem   Strong Chemistry   Sunshine on the Land   Tattered Old Kite   Tear Out Your Heart   That's What the Lonely Is For   That's Why I'm Laughing   That's What The Lonely Is For   The Crossings   The Grind   The Kid   The Natural Edge   The Nightshift Watchman   The Reason   The Sacrifice   The Song He Never Wrote   The Whisper of the Wheels   This Old Car   This Tattoo   This Tattoo   Three Brothers   Time Between The Lightning And The Thunder   Tip of My Tongue   To Love   Too Cool   Top of My Head   Top of the Roller Coaster   Turning Point   Underneath   Vista   Voodoo Morning   Vow Of Silence   Waiting For A Change   We Call It Freedom   We Came to Ride the Road   Western Ridge   What You Whispered   When It's Dry   When You Mistreat Her   When You're Ready   Which Way The Wind Blows   Wild Child   Wildberry Pie   Wilford Brandon Hayes   Winter At The Shore   Words Alone   You Should See the Way It Feels   Young Man Dies

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