Title TK is the third studio album by the American band the Breeders, released in May 2002. The group's second album, Last Splash, came out in 1993. In the years following this, various band members left, and by sometime in 1997, singer and songwriter Kim Deal was the only regular member remaining. Throughout that year, Deal spent time in studios with numerous musicians and engineers to try to record a follow-up album. However, her reportedly demanding standards, drug use, and other difficult behavior alienated those she worked with.
In 1999, joined by her sister Kelley, Deal began recording sessions with engineer Steve Albini in Chicago. She later decided that she needed a backing group, and by chance met members of the band Fear at a bar in New York. Fear members Mando Lopez and Richard Presley, as well as Los Angeles musician Jose Medeles, joined the Breeders' line-up with the Deal sisters. The group continued recording with Albini in 2001, and the output from these sessions was supplemented with two tracks recorded in Hollywood with engineers Andrew Alekel and Mark Arnold. Ten of the twelve songs on the album are credited solely to Kim Deal; the other two were written by all five band members.
Ripped off
You smoked the Bible
Rolled it up
Your last breath
Hot on my back
You get started
Try to get somewhere
You move so slow
You're not even here
Dear traveller
It's my death
My rhythm
My arithmetic
I got used to
Nobody ridin in the back
Sorrow blowin through the veins
I'm over Houston
You're over the night we met
Dear traveller
The she
Scared electricity
Where no human
Carries a map
You say you gotta burn to shine
But every prism unwinds
A road to ruin
And this tickets mine
Dear traveller