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Ticking Away

from American Gothic by Stuart Pearson

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This started its life as a track from "Mojave", but it was too big for that album. The middle sections arrived one day to explain why the song wasn't ready sooner.

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TICKING AWAY
Stuart Pearson

Like a murder of crows
Squawking ten feet apart
I carved an armored perimeter
With my bruised, aching heart
The rags of a man
Stained with constant defeat
What becomes of a photograph
Trampled on the cold concrete?
Then it begins
Like a clock in my brain
Just ticking away
Just ticking away
Blood fills my head
Like a bomb in my brain
Just ticking away
It’s ticking away
And then
Sleep returns to stifle me again

I’m a smudged fingerprint
Just a shadow with eyes
I wear a name that nobody calls
When they’re tucked in at night
We’re all that we hide
Padlocked doors made of skin
If my hands were outstretched and bare
Would you welcome me in?
The pulse keeps time
Like a clock in my veins
Just ticking away
Just ticking away
Blood fills my head

Blood fills my eyes
Every channel the same
Just ticking away
I’m ticking away
Impressed
Tomorrow my name joins with the rest

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from American Gothic, released November 10, 2023
All sounds played or messed with by Stuart Pearson

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Stuart Pearson Los Angeles, California

“Dark Americana: Stories and Songs”: sepia-toned, dog-eared vistas of America’s struggles with sin and redemption that jumps cobwebbed eras from the 1860’s to the 1960’s. hollywoodtrax.bandcamp.com/album/dark-americana-stories-and-songs

"Dark Americana 2: Mohave" reflects the desert: dark folk, rustic, dangerous, in ruins and foreboding; breathing hallucinatory American mythology.
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