Ticking Clocks

from Genre Fluid by Dave Bradley

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Ticking Clocks kicks off like a prog rock song but flips into lounge lizard jazz with Adam Stewart from C5 the Band on drums and synth. It’s lyrically a kind of sequel to She’s Leaving Home.

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The key turns in the lock
she pushed the door wide open with her suitcase
It's a shock
to find herself back here once again

She locked the secrets deep inside
Unanswered prayers her woe betide
She finds the clocks
They stopped the day she stepped away
From the cruellest of hard knocks
and all the fear that it revealed

The silent screams, the sound that mocks
Those echoes drowned by ticking clocks

No need to knock
She grasps the letters from the floor
You know she's taking stock
And gasps to know the secrets they don't hold her any more

The key's inside the box.
She didn't need to worry
About secrets locked up deep inside
Unanswered prayers her woe betide

She winds the clocks
And knows the secrets they can't hold her
The cruellest of hard knocks
and all the fears that they concealed

She locked the secrets deep inside
Unanswered prayers her woe betide
She faced the shocks
And knows the secrets they can't hold her

The hardest of hard knocks
And all her fears now gone forever

credits

from Genre Fluid, track released January 20, 2023
Words and music by David Bradley
Arrangement dB/ and Adam Stewart
Vocal, guitars, bass dB/
Drums and lead synth Adam Stewart

Artwork dB/ and Adam Stewart

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Dave Bradley UK

Guitarist, singer-songwriter. Acoustic and electric indie pop and rock originals. Singer, guitarist with C5, bigMouth, TyrannoChorus, CTW, with DJ Ad, and BarbD

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